Researchers observed that Lybia boxer crabs engage in fights where they steal sea anemones from one another, after which each crab splits their sea anemone into two identical clones.
Tomasz Kulik, Kessy Abarenkov, Maciej Buśko, Katarzyna Bilska, Anne D. van Diepeningen, Anna Ostrowska-Kołodziejczak, Katarzyna Krawczyk, Balázs Brankovics, Sebastian Stenglein, Jakub Sawicki, Juliusz Perkowski
Researchers observed that Lybia boxer crabs engage in fights where they steal sea anemones from one another, after which each crab splits their sea anemone into two identical clones.
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