It’s a crab-eat-crab world for the Chesapeake Bay’s juvenile blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). Literally. Cannibalism is the ...
Smithsonian researchers discovered who eats the most young blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay — it’s not people, or even fish, ...
Young blue crabs face their biggest threat from their own kind, but shallow water can provide a crucial refuge from cannibalism.