Chat help please.

[raichu]

I am SO stuck in my Chat mag this week (I get Chat, TAB and That's Life Every Week). Puzzle 4 - 3 Q's: Florida City, Clan or connected group of people, celestial body, often seen with a tail - all with 5 letters. I then have to put those answers in a grid and the answer to the whole puzzle is a four letter word - Scientists have found the female of a Californian species of what will check out over 100 males before choosing a mate? Can anyone help please?

[gen2]

Miami
Tribe
Comet

[raichu]

Thank you gen2. THAT was driving me scranny!!! I was so on the wrong line of answering. Can I take it that you do chat mag too.

[gen2]

Never seen it in my life. Just answered it from your post.

How about this story for the last one:

Finicky Fiddler Crabs

Female California fiddler crabs, Uca crenulata, may be the world's most discriminating animal when it comes to choosing her mate. Research biologist Catherine deRivera, from the Aquatic Bioinvasions Research and Policy Institute (a joint Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and Portland State University project), observed the mating activity of hundreds of thousands of California fiddler crabs on mud flats in the ********** River estuary in Chula Vista, CA.

Her study, conducted while a doctoral student at UCLA, found that female Uca crenulata visit 23 males on average and may visit over 100 before selecting a mate. The females pass by the males' burrows while he stands outside waving his large claw to get her attention. Once she chooses a male, one of them will close the entrance to the burrow and they will mate and incubate their eggs. Her decision appears to be based on the size, shape and location of his burrow. In addition, females typically select a male that is similar in size to her.

Dr. deRivera's study is published in the August issue of Animal Behavior.

[gen2]

Now whatever do the AB robots find offensive about the name of that river. It was the words SWEET and WATER joined together as a single word.