Crab team on a high tide trip
Joanne is one of our honours students studying the larvae of tree-climbing crabs in Singapore mangroves. Today we went out to catch a couple of Episesarma versicolor crabs at Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve. The moon was full recently, so some of the females would still be gravid and she can study the larvae in the lab as they hatch out.
It was nice seeing Joanne, Paul (who did a Perisesarma sp. study last year) and Ben (who is doing a Selatium brocki study now) get a feel of Episesarma after clocking some night work with Selatium brocki. Episesarma is a different kettle of fish altogether it was interesting for them to figure the species behaviour out and respond to it.
