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Hermit crabs swap their shells as they grow and can live up to 30 years in the wild, often choosing shells from dead snails to fit their size. They also form "housing chains" where dozens line up by size to trade shells in a chaotic crab party. Nature's ultimate home renovators!
Fun fact: Hermit crabs don’t have hard shells of their own, so they use empty shells from other animals to protect their soft bodies. ? As they grow, they’ll switch to larger shells, making them unique shell hunters in the animal kingdom!
meganical
Good on them for recycling
skellis
Perverts
ElectricSpacePotatoes
imagine how many shells there were laying around for this one lineage of crabs to start using them for protection
CheeseborgarSoop
You should never give hermit crabs glass shells. Especially in a tank exposed to a lot of light. Their lower bodies are soft and don't harden so they can wiggle in and out of shells, and light hardens them. They can get stuck and die, or even get sunburnt (and die.) Seriously, you can look at these little guy wrong and they will just fucking up and die.
Waldi73300
Anybody know the song in the video?
Currahee63
#1 They like it when you watch. Yeah, they're into that.
MichaelSurbrook
Pagoo!
releasethedogs
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It feels so good to slip it in.
hobojones85
what it feels like to chew 5 gum
nutbynature
I'd be shelling out for a new outfit
Toomuchsheep
OnlyCrabs
deltree5
Why was it necessary to add music to the video?
DDBomber
Pervert
MaleProstateMilker88
I hope they will give him a proper shell so he doesn't get eaten because that's bad camouflage.
FishieStardust
#1 *finishes grinding her weed* Hey guys, where'd my pipe go? It was just here on the table
judithCat
That crab is actually the only true house owner that I know
fartharder
#1 https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlOHhqNnd4NHVxOXRjY2l2ZWowcWcyMTQzd2g4NzNsMzZyNTg2M2lqcSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/7kuFvIT8hyRwUOzoXf/giphy.mp4
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rbudrick
I read here these are harmful to the crabs for some reason. I forget why. Crab people, feel free to chime in.
Edowyth
Check this out.
Edowyth
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spiceass9000
So they’re like almost lobsters, or maybe crayfish. But still very crab. Are they descendants of lobsters or crayfish that have almost completed the return to crab cycle we all inevitably will complete
TheUnnamedPoet
I love how he double checks that no one is deep inside of it before he moves in
lizardbones
Its checking to make sure it'll fit, not for other residents
VerySmallDuck
A wise life strategy in many situations.
SpamYarBlockers
Occupied. OCCUPIED!
mcodger
Paige no!
xXCutieMomokoXx
they form an line when they need to upgrade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1dnocPQXDQ
terajack2048
Aww that one guy got shell jacked
hyptosis
yeah this always cracks me up, house swapping party
PlayingInGraveyards
Omg this audio on everything! At least add some Vapor wave palm trees! Make it make sense!
METROlD
Do they take it off to take a shit or do they just shit in that thing all day?
cousteau
Now I want to know where they have their butt.
lizardbones
they have small limbs on the soft parts of their bodies that they use to keep water circulating, and when they poop they use the same limbs to clean out the shell
cousteau
Are there any other animals besides humans and hermit crabs that use clothes or other detachable body accessories? Cartoons led me to believe that turtle shells were detachable as a kid but that's not true.
Edowyth
Orcas (?) or some kind of whale were wearing dead fish as hats.
cousteau
Oh, true. Or was it an octopus?
CouldntCakeLess
Owning your own house? In this economy?
circlebreaker
ClutterMonkey
More of a lease.
3rdoption
Lease schmease. They're squatters!
nation543
They're socialists, they get together every so often to do a house swap. See, if everybody just works together, anything is achievable.
whitecheddarismyrappername
crazy how so many shells existed one species decided to reuse instead of growing their own
FrolickingFrolicking
But not only that though….crabs/cristaceans generally have hard shells built-in (exoskeleton thing, not snail style) which makes it even more interesting
SpamYarBlockers
So many shells existed that we literally have entire cliffs of limestone
RhymingEverything
I wonder if they were always like that or slowly evolved from having their own shell
cousteau
I wonder if they slowly got rid of their shell or they slowly grew a retractable butt.
lizardbones
IIRC its most likely that they evolved out of the hard bodies, as Coconut Crabs, which are a type of hermit crab, still form a hardened backside once they outgrow all available shells
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Gazorpgazorpfield
My favorite Futurama episode. Or maybe second to the popplers episode
Renza0
that just raises further questions!
Iaimtomisbehave
I upvote Futurama too:
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Gravevoid
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