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There are 206 bones in an adult human skeleton—what happened to the 193 that weren’t found? Evidence points to the coconut crabs, who have earned their nickname “robber crabs.” When Gallagher described the site of the discovery he said that “coconut crabs had scattered many bones.” The omnivorous crabs will eat coconuts (of course), fallen fruit, birds, rodents, other crabs—and carrion.

TIGHAR has performed several experiments to see if the crabs would drag bones back to their burrows. In one, they brought a pig carcass to the island and filmed what happened to it. Crabs—coconut crabs plus the smaller, more numerous strawberry hermit crabs—swarmed the body, removing most of the flesh within two weeks.

“This tells us crabs drag bones,” says Tom King, the group’s former chief archaeologist, “but it doesn’t tell us how far.” A year after the experiment they discovered some bones had been dragged 60 feet from the body, but they couldn’t account for all of the remains.

King thinks it’s likely that Earhart perished on the island as a castaway. After she died, the crabs consumed her body and dragged her bones into their burrows—except of course for the thirteen that Gallagher discovered.

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My girlfriend has an off fascination with crabs. She is always watching Youtube video on crabs, her apartment is covered in crab art, she has little crab statues and stuff, she loves crabs. And she will never eat crab, if you say you eat crab to her you may as well be saying you eat veal. She is very pro crab.
Lately she has started telling me I should "act more like a crab" in day to day life. When I asked her to clarify, she explained she literally wanted me to behave like a crab. As in mimic their behavior and movements.
She demonstrated my making her hands do pincer-style movements, and she started squatting and kind of walking sideways around the room, and kept saying "crabble crabble crabble" in a gravely voice.
Now at first I found this very hilarious, but she asked me to try it. I only did it once, briefly. I told her okay you've had your laugh, but then she got angry at me. She wants me to act like this "way more often".
It's a very bizarre scenario. It keeps coming up, she keeps pestering me about it. Like this morning I was making scrambled eggs and she said "How would a crab make those eggs?" I was like what? When I was working on my laptop she said "How would a crab filter that Excel file? Be a crab." I was like I can't be a drat crab right now I have to work. And when I would get up to walk anywhere in the apartment she would remark "That's a pretty upright walk for a crab."
Don't even get me started on last night, because yes she wanted me to be "an erotic crab" in the bedroom and no I didn't do it. I'm dreading that one coming up again.
I just don't have any interest in behaving like a crab. I am afraid if I humor her again and engage in crabbery that she will get used to it and I'll be trapped into acting like a crab more often.
If it were like a one-off thing or every now and then that's one thing. I'd still say it's weird but I could live with it I guess. But she is wanting to act like a crab constantly and I can't deal with it.
Has anyone else had their girlfriend insist that they act like a crab or other crustacean? I am at my wits end. This seems so ridiculous. She is mad at me right now. Aside from this recent crab issue we have had almost no problems in our year of dating. But if she is going to persist in this crab thing it might be a dealbreaker I don't know. How can I convince her to stop telling me to act like a crab?
TL;DR - My girlfriend wants to be act more like a crab and I have no interest in that behavior, which enrages her.

Hungry Computer posted:

Colossal crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fate

christmas boots posted:

I don't buy it. The crabs murdered her.

The Chad Jihad posted:

My (23m) girlfriend (23f) keeps telling me she wants me to "act more like a crab".

The Chad Jihad posted:

My (23m) girlfriend (23f) keeps telling me she wants me to "act more like a crab".

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

crarld

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Xaintrailles posted:

Yeah, I love shrimp acupuncture.

Stress just melting away...

Leperflesh posted:

From Gary Larson's "sketchbook 4"

Lil Peeler posted:

Do you know anything about the seasonings on those shrimp?

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

crog.

Lil Peeler posted:

Do you know anything about the seasonings on those shrimp?

Pentaro posted:

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/new-crab-species-named-after-nightwish/

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted: