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Felt sad for that last crab who ended with a shell worse than the original :(
This video was amazing- and sad. I love it.
They also duke it out if two crabs want the same shell. I recall one video where two crabs were goin round the outside when a third one just moves into the shell. Hilarious at scale, but I bet the first two were pissed. Good thing they weren’t pistol shrimp.
An animal named a hermit crab has better social relationships than humans I’m so pissed.
as a hermit human i can confirm: less human interaction = more mental health
Setup a commune, escape the system, free yourselves
socialist crabs.
Iirc there can be a mad scramble. If two try for the same shell, one loses out and their previous shell may be taken. So they’re fucked.
The Soviets had an “apartment swap” system for people who wanted to move around filled-to-capacity neighborhoods. You would get on the list with where you currently lived and put in where you wanted to move and would get informed when there was a match. Sometimes matches would be arranged in triangles or other more complex shapes, but since everybody involved needed to get on the same page this was rare. The wait to move depended on how lucky you were - sometimes you’d get a match right away, sometimes you’d forget about it until ten years later when you would get a letter asking if you were still interested.
This was all in the 60s and 70s when things were generally more chill.
In Australia we lose about six months wages to ‘stamp duty’ if we move. Better to stick with the oversized shell.
Can you explain for an American?
Not fully as I don’t really understand it.
https://www.revenue.nsw.gov.au/taxes-duties-levies-royalties/transfer-duty
The calculator on that page says I would owe them $17k if I purchase a $500k property.
Stamp duty makes it sound like it’s what happened to them because they didn’t kick the brits out over the stamp act.
It’s a tax on buying a house.
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It’s pretty sweet ngl.
I wonder how they communicate. There must be a signal that says, “I’m moving out. Line up!”
IIRC it’s by doin’ a little crabby dance whenever they see other hermit crabs scuttling by until one that’s also looking for a new shell spots them and the hermit crab swap meet begins forming.
They kill/eat their dead, weak and handicapped as well. Heard they also get half off fries at Wendy’s too no cap…Sounds pretty sweet op
They eat some of their weak. On the other hand, show me a hermit crab billionaire. I think they have something good going there, let them cook.
You have obviously never been to PCB
I’ve had a gallon of PCP if that counts though
If you never traveled through the land of the jeweled hermits, you got bad shit homie
Got to witness crabs doing this when going for a walk one day. There was a very shallow pool on the beach, about a foot wide, and about 20 crabs having a ‘swap meet’, scurrying back and fourth between the different shells.
That’s similar to how it works in Singapore, where housing is fully public
If you found a house that was too expensive and tried camping outside it with your average wage in sharpie on a cardboard sign, nobody else would join in and reveal their earnings so nakedly. Nor would they reveal it in an online sorting list with their current house listed beside it…
Besides, you’d likely object to moving to their previous humble residence in Alberta where the older couple earned the retirement that affords them this house.
Just build more housing lol.
