Crab Battle megathread

Odradek

Post Crab Battles here

Odradek

Odradek

Imipolex G

Bee

obligatory

https://derpiboo.ru/search/index?q=rarity+fighting+a+giant+crab

Bee

Bee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declawing_of_crabs

Wikipedia said:

This indicates that the effect of autotomy was a reduction of the ability to feed on mussels, rather than a general reduction of feeding motivation.

Translation said:

Pulling off a crab's arms makes it less able to eat the food it wants to, rather than simply making it less hungry.  SCIENCE!

Tachyon

Bee said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declawing_of_crabs

Wikipedia said:

This indicates that the effect of autotomy was a reduction of the ability to feed on mussels, rather than a general reduction of feeding motivation.

Translation said:

Pulling off a crab's arms makes it less able to eat the food it wants to, rather than simply making it less hungry.  SCIENCE!

ಠ_ಠ

Sredni Vashtar

They aren't unable to eat, though; they just eat easier food, like dead fish. And the claws apparently grow back in many cases. It's still a little ghoulish, and a bit cruel, but it does kill fewer crabs,

Bee

Yeah I mean granted, the alternative is to kill them every time and waste everything BUT the claw meat.  It's one of those things that sounds horrible and frankly is horrible, but...carnivores.

Tachyon

i know i read the article

but seeing that on the page alongside scientific contention over whether crabs can 'feel pain' (evidence points to yes) made me feel kind of disgusted, to be blunt

Klinotaxis

Yeah if you're worried about harming animals you picked the wrong species to be honestly.

glennmagusharvey

Klinotaxis said:

Yeah if you're worried about harming animals you picked the wrong species to be honestly.

> die a pacifist
> put in reincarnation request for "plant"
> get reincarnated as a strangler fig

Tachyon

well yes

i have no high ground here, i'm not a vegetarian, it was just seeing that in the clinical language grossed me out

Odradek

Too much cruelty, not nearly enough crab battles

Klinotaxis

Tachyon said:

well yes

i have no high ground here, i'm not a vegetarian, it was just seeing that in the clinical language grossed me out

in science you talk about "sacrificing" animals and that is my second least favorite thing after the actual killing

Bee

Really I just linked that snippet because apparently we needed SCIENCE to indicate that ripping off arms doesn't magically make someone less hungry.

Here, have something weird.

The Sand Bubbler crab sifts for food by eating fucking everything in sight, then spitting up, through the top of their head, a sand pellet of everything that did not happen to be food.

They're rather prolific.

Odradek

Okay that is not crab battles, but it is good.

That's what the Bulette should do in D&D, rewriting its monster manual description right now

Tachyon

that's amazing

Bee

For the record i have no idea what this is from and knowing my luck it's probably perverted as hell.  But seriously, epic crab pilot.

Fossilmaiden

A quick search says it's from http://myanimelist.net/anime/20709/Sabagebu