Ecologist at Large #26-04
After discovering an orgy of 100,000 crabs with a submarine, I spent the next five years trying to understand what it was about, with little success. It took another five years of research with remotely operated vehicles and camera sleds to elucidate it. The answer required matching up underwater observations, tidal current data, and larval hatching studies to piece together a complex puzzle that told an evolutionary story about survival of crab populations. I called it the Larval Launch Pad hypothesis. PS, check out the video of a collapsing mound of crabs.
