SniperWoreConverse posted:

was this already posted?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mDngl11P3k

Xenomrph posted:

https://i.imgur.com/5tvT0LS.mp4

Audio mandatory.

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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.

christmas boots posted:

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

Bleck posted:

I like to think they'd be insulted because they'd interpret "crustacean" as "like a barnacle," and as we all know, barnacles are the worst animal in the world

Wikipedia posted:

As adults they lack appendages, segmentation, and all internal organs except gonads, a few muscles, and the remains of the nervous system. Females also have a cuticle, which is never shed.[4] Other than the minute larval stages there is nothing identifying them as crustaceans or even arthropods in general. The only distinguishable portion of a rhizocephalan body is the externa; the reproductive portion of adult females.

The externa is where the host's egg sac would be, and the host's behaviour is chemically altered: it is castrated and does not moult until aged externa(e) drop(s) off. The host treats the externa as if it were its own egg sac.[7] This behaviour even extends to male hosts, which would never have carried eggs, but care for the externa in the same way as females

bloody ghost titty posted:

https://www.designtoscano.com/product/giant+red+king+crab+sculptural+chair+ne590079.do

Oh no my bit bobs!

Review by Opelousas, 3 Years Ago posted:

I bought this for my Pediatric office. Delivery was much faster than expected within one week. Details on the crab is great. Easy to clean. Kids will love it. Will see how it holds up. Would recommend

Bismuth posted:

Purist being fully aquatic doesn't work, they forget about the mighty and noble coconut crab, master of the land and sky

Dong Quixote posted:

Looking like no snops to me. Voting not crebbe.

Wikipedia posted:

The Bopyridae are a family of isopod crustaceans in the suborder Cymothoida. There are 1223 individual species contained in this family.[1][2] Members of the family are ectoparasites of crabs and shrimps. They live in the gill cavities or under the carapace where they cause a noticeable swelling. Fossil crustaceans have occasionally been observed to have a similar characteristic bulge.

uber_stoat posted:

i think this is a feel good thread about various kinds of crab situations and yet i am now compelled to share this chilling knowledge. if you are in fact a crab, beware!

Ror posted:

oh my god, this is the most blessed content

https://i.imgur.com/nFRlTjj.mp4

Herbert has no legs but he's gonna be OK with a little TLC

Sourdough Sam posted:

You guys catch the title match tonight?

https://twitter.com/kt2soundlab/status/1327933250757509120?s=19

Captain Hygiene posted:

Maybe cats and owls are on convergent paths, the owls get fluffier and cuter, and the cats get...wings? Then they both get harder shells and snoppers of course.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

human speech isn't hard. humans do it. you know anyone who speaks crab?

LingcodKilla posted:

A kelp crab isn’t gonna have much pinch force. Let’s see a stone or rock crab, critters who eat shiftless barnacle cousins, put some real numbers up.

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"During our field study, obtaining data for analysis was challenging, as the large claws of this crab pinched us on multiple occasions," Shin-ichiro Oka, the chief researcher of the zoological laboratory at the Okinawa Churashima Research Center in Japan, and his colleagues wrote in the journal article.

Oka and colleagues found: the larger the crab, the stronger the pinch. Given that the largest coconut crabs weigh around 9 lbs., the researchers calculated that the biggest of the species could generate a pinch with a force of 3,300 newtons, greater than that of any other crustacean.

aphid_licker posted:

Check out these unruly crabs

https://twitter.com/KaribuSuzuki/status/1295324157371019265

Google Translate posted:

If you have a chance to live-action invader games in the future, I would like to ask these people for enemy characters! Baby crab, #メガロパ baby🦀The crab is swimming at first, too.Anyway, it'🤭 fun, it's 🙃, and if you point the camera at a group of elementary school students, it's like this.It is a wonderful plankton that will make you smile!

Captain Hygiene posted:

I wonder if crabinization affects lobsters or if they're already high enough up the evolutionary ladder to stay the same

subpar anachronism posted:

There are also whale lice, who are lil crustaceans too
they congregate on the ever-open wound around a narwhal's tusk

Bored posted:

Mine just seemed so goddamned happy when digging. So all the time, happy.

Hermit Crab Prison posted:

I noticed a couple weeks ago that one of my hermits is a bully. He seems to hunt down other hermits and hold their shells until they emerge so he can attack them. My other tank seemed to be gathering shells and I couldn't figure out why.

Today with the new tank in the living room I was watching and saw the hermit attacking another one, after separating this hermit off others 3 times today I had enough.
I ripped him out of the tank and dropped him into a small plastic container with a small hole in the lid. He can now be seen floating at the surface of the tank, trapped in his plastic prison, spinning circles in the current.

Mak0rz posted:

crab computer
https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1371966313904627720

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We speculated that swarms can behave similarly to billiard balls and thus implement basic circuits of collision-based computing.

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Ethical Note
No specific license was required for this work. The duration of any
single experiment was so short that no crab was ever endangered. The
crabs were kept in comfortable conditions and after all experiments
were released to their natural habitat. Furthermore, on visual inspection, no crabs appeared to have been injured or adversely affected by
the experiments.

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This week’s Wednesday Wonder comes from the life of St. Francis Xavier, a sixteenth century Jesuit missionary to Asia. One day, Francis was sailing to an island. A storm began raging, and a possible shipwreck loomed. Francis Xavier prayed for the ship’s safety at the request of those on board. Francis took the crucifix he wore on his neck and held it up high. Suddenly, the storm subsided.

Then, the crucifix fell out of Francis’ hands. The crucifix landed in the middle of the sea. The next day, Francis arrived at his destination. The saint got off the ship, and walked on the seashore. A large crab leaped out of the sea. The crab held Francis’ crucifix that had fallen into the sea. The crab placed the crucifix in Francis’ hands and jumped back into the sea.

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/XATYqxu.gifv

Waterbed Wendy posted:

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A very different and fun hat, in the shape of a crab.

It can also be rezzed as a beach decoration or as a decorative item in general.

L$69

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crab hat
L$30

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Pewpew! Crab Hat RARE
L$980