The crab people all move up to Darwin for five months of the year (September - January). We have two houses that we live in at the North Australia Research Unit (the ANU's research station in Darwin). Each season is different because there are a different set of people up there. But one thing in common is that we all have fun while we are up there. We work together and help each other in the field and with designing experiments. We all go to the Darwin Wharf for fish & Chips once a week (lab tradition). We seldom fight and some of us make friends for life with the people we study with in Darwin.
PAT BACKWELL
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
I am interested in all things to do with fiddler crab behaviour.
see my website
LEEANN REANEY
PhD STUDENT 2004-2007
Mate choice in fiddler crabs
see my website http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/rknell/myweb/index.htm
TANYA DETTO
PhD STUDENT 2004-2007
POSTDOC 2008-2009
Colour in fiddler crabs
RICHARD MILNER
HONOURS STUDENT 2007
PhD STUDENT 2009- ongoing
Female mate-selection behaviour
ELESHA CURRAN
HONOURS STUDENT 2007
Female mate-selection behaviour
SARAH FAYED
HONOURS STUDENT 2007
The Ownership Advantage in fiddler crab fights
KATRINA READING
HONOURS STUDENT 2006
Mutual Mate Choice in a fiddler crab
DESLEY DARBY
HONOURS STUDENT 2007
Female mate-selection behaviour
ALEX McWILLIAM
HONOURS STUDENT 2007
Handedness in a fiddler crab
NATHAN JARDINE
HONOURS STUDENT 2007
Chimney-building in a fiddler crab
RACHEL HOCKING
SPECIAL TOPICS RESEARCH STUDENT 2007
Chimney-building in a fiddler crab
NICI SWEANEY
SPECIAL TOPICS RESEARCH STUDENT 2006
Feeding behaviour of male fiddler crabs
RACHEL SLATYER
SPECIAL TOPICS RESEARCH STUDENT 2007
Chimney-building in a fiddler crab
MELISSA STARLING
SPECIAL TOPICS RESEARCH STUDENT 2005
Pair formation in a fiddler crab
MENINA TEHEI
SPECIAL TOPICS RESEARCH STUDENT 2003
Social behaviour of a fiddler crab
EVELYN FOK
SPECIAL TOPICS RESEARCH STUDENT 2007
Chimney-building in a fiddler crab
LESLEY MORELL
VISITING PhD STUDENT FROM THE
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW 2003
Fighting behaviour in fiddler crabs
ISOBEL BOOKSMYTHE HONOURS STUDENT 2007
PhD STUDENT 2009- ongoing
The costs of female choice in a fiddler crab
CATHERINE HAYES
SPECIAL TOPICS STUDENT 2008