True Facts: Incredible Crab Stories

Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🎉. Get up to 60% OFF your subscription ➡️ Here: bit.ly/BabbelZeFrank1023 merch: ze-true-store.myshopify.com/ patreon: www.patreon.com/truefacts classical music: soundcloud.com/querflote/5-au... sponsor music: incompetech.com/ Please help Dr Camprasse’s research by logging sightings or helping to classify images from Spider Crab Cams at the links here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/spidercrabwatch/spider… www.inaturalist.org/projects/spider-crab-watch Thanks to: Dr Elodie Camprasse, Deakin University Dr Jason Spadaro, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium Dr Tanya Detto, Christmas Island National Park Dr Rise Ohashi, Dept. of Biosphere-Geosphere Science, Okayama Dr Mark E. Laidre, Dartmouth College Dr Patricia Backwell, Australian National University Chris Bray, youtube.com/@ChrisbrayNet1 Anna & Ned DeLoach, youtube.com/@blennywatcher charlesleflamand, youtube.com/@charlesleflamand Dr Adrian Smith, youtube.com/@AntLab CINP San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Mystic Aquarium, youtube.com/@MysticAquarium1 Anchorage Museum, youtube.com/@AnchorageMuseum SCDNR, www.dnr.sc.gov/ NRDC.org Jono Freedrix,    • Fiddler Crab: a day in the life   Ninad Bhosale,    • Fiddler Crabs Fighting   Kelvin Perrie NOAA Ark Media Citations De Grande FR, Fogo BR, Costa TM. Losers can win: Thermoregulatory advantages of regenerated claws of fiddler crab males for establishment in warmer microhabitats. J Therm Biol. 2021 Jul;99:102952. doi: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2021.102952. Harada K, Hayashi N, Kagaya K. Individual behavioral type captured by a Bayesian model comparison of cap making by sponge crabs. PeerJ. 2020 May 14;8:e9036. doi: 10.7717/peerj.9036. Inoue, Tadanobu, Shin-ichiro Oka, Toru Hara, Three-dimensional microstructure of robust claw of coconut crab, one of the largest terrestrial crustaceans, Materials & Design, Volume 206, 2021, 109765, ISSN 0264-1275, doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109765. Inoue T, Oka S-i, Nakazato K, Hara T. Columnar Structure of Claw Denticles in the Coconut Crab, Birgus latro. Minerals. 2022; 12(2):274. doi.org/10.3390/min12020274 Krieger J, Drew MM, Hansson BS, Harzsch S. Notes on the Foraging Strategies of the Giant Robber Crab Birgus latro (Anomala) on Christmas Island: Evidence for Active Predation on Red Crabs Gecarcoidea natalis (Brachyura). Zool Stud. 2016 Apr 6;55:e6. doi: 10.6620/ZS.2016.55-06. Laidre ME. Architectural modification of shells by terrestrial hermit crabs alters social dynamics in later generations. Ecology. 2019 Sep;100(9):e02767. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2767. Laidre ME. Private parts for private property: evolution of penis size with more valuable, easily stolen shells. R Soc Open Sci. 2019 Jan 16;6(1):181760. doi: 10.1098/rsos.181760. Laidre, M. & Hayssen, Virginia. (2012). Homes for hermits: Temporal, spatial and structural dynamics as transportable homes are incorporated into a population. Journal of Zoology. 288. 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2012.00921.x. Lee, CC., Chiu, MC., Shih, CH. et al. The role of anthropogenic disturbance and invasion of yellow crazy ant in a recent decline of land crab population. Sci Rep 11, 12234 (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91732-z Lemaitre R, Rahayu DL, Komai T. A revision of "blanket-hermit crabs" of the genus Paguropsis Henderson, 1888, with the description of a new genus and five new species (Crustacea, Anomura, Diogenidae). Zookeys. 2018 Apr 23;(752):17-97. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.752.23712. Ohashi, Rise and Naoki Kamezaki. Peculiar Molting Behavior of Large Hermit Crabs. Pacific Science, 76(2):197-200 (2022). doi.org/10.2984/76.2.7 Schnytzer, Yisrael & Achituv, Yair & Fiedler, G. Curt & Karplus, Ilan. (2022). THE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BOXER CRABS AND SEA ANEMONES: WHAT IS KNOWN AND WHAT IS NOT. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Vol. 60. 495-532. DOI: 10.1201/9781003288602-10 Yamaguchi, Takao & Honda, Hiroshi & Aratake, Hisamichi & Henmi, Yasuhisa. (2006). Decorating behavior of the majid crab Hyastenus diacanthus. Crustacean Research. 35. 79-91. 10.18353/crustacea.35.0_79