crayfish

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Considered "keystone species" by many, crayfish play an outsized role as food sources for other animals and as ecosystem engineers, creating burrows that act as habitat for many species in semi-terrestrial environments.

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024

Neither overfishing nor pollution, writes David Wilcove in his book The Condor’s Shadow, “has endangered as many species of fish, mussels, amphibians, and crayfish as has habitat destruction.”

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2024

As with humans, crayfish and capybaras, if you look you’ll find the biochemical markers of the poor bees’ cognitive change.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2024

But there is also a lot we don’t know, including about decapod crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, and shrimp.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2024

Campus earthworms had been fed inadvertently to crayfish in a research project and all the crayfish had promptly died.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson