Crayfish, warming up for a fight!

Do you remember this study (also see it here, here, here) we did a few years ago?

Well, I just got my hands on some pictures from the time we did it - just individual animals, not pairs as they fought (we had to pay attention to score behaviors, not waste time on taking pictures):

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