Along African Shores in Search of Fiddlers, 1957

Edited film likely presented at NYZS Annual Meeting. A combination travelogue and overview of Jocelyn Crane's worldwide field studies of the fiddler crab. Footage of local landscapes and indigenous people in Africa and the Indo-Pacific region. "A brief record of Jocelyn Crane's journey to Zanzibar and points south and west to study the biology of Uca."--Film credits. "[The] fifty-eighth expedition [of the Department of Tropical Research], this was a field trip to Africa, the fourth scheduled under Miss Crane's grant from the National Science Foundation for a worldwide study of ocypodid crabs. The African circuit extended from July 24 to October 12. Field work was conducted at Massawa in Eritrea; the Zanibar area, including Pemba and Dar-es-Salaam; Inhaca Island, off Lourenco Marques in Mozambique; Luanda in Angola; and Lagos, Nigeria"-1957 NYZS Annual report, p60.