Hit yourself on the hand with a hammer and it'll swell to several times its normal size, or so say cartoons. The fiddler crab, though, needs no such encouragement to grow a freakishly enormous limb: One of its claws comes way, way bigger than the other—totally naturally. Why? To fight and get busy, of course. Learn more in this week's episode of Absurd Creatures!
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