crabs

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Let's consider a simple system: a cave full of insects and some crabs that can eat them.

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(slang) Pubic lice.

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The clearest senses and uses of crabs gathered in one view.

noun

(slang) Pubic lice.

noun

(gambling, slang) A dice roll of two aces.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for crabs.

noun

(slang) Pubic lice.

noun

(gambling, slang) A dice roll of two aces.

Example sentences

Let's consider a simple system: a cave full of insects and some crabs that can eat them.

Some species of Ant domesticate fungii, there are crabs that cultivate bacteria and there are fish that farm Algae (damselfish).

This affects tiny crustaceans, but also the young of large species such as king crabs.

Hermit crabs are great scavengers and mostly peaceful, but they hardly wait for a shell to be vacant before moving in.

So there's a selective pressure on the crabs to get rid of the eyes.

What, are you worried the hermit crabs are now going to set up some sort of repressive caste system based on their shell numbers?

Are they actually consciously preventing the other crabs from escaping?

All hermit crabs use shells, all trapdoor spiders lay traps.

We got upgraded, worked on our laptops, spent 6 hours eating chili crabs in Singapore and listening to a drag cover band, and then flew back.

I wonder if the crabs would rather be temporarily numbered or permanently eaten?

He didn't injure or probably even bother the crabs.

Agreed the Sharpie might disapear in a few days, I'm more concerned about the behaviour: he was bored so he wrote on crabs.

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Crabs are eaten whole, shell and all, in the US - just only right after molting when they are called "soft-shell crabs." Come to Maryland during soft shell season, and you'll see them on every menu.

And unless you really believe horseshoe crabs are the ultimate form of life and it's impossible for organisms to improve at all, then it is "local".

The Sharpie really will disappear within a few days, so even if some future nature-lover stumbles upon the island later, his experience won't be "ruined" by numbered crabs (I would find it charming if I found such a thing!) So why are you concerned at all?

"""The coconut-carrying behavior makes the veined octopus the newest member of the elite club of tool-using animals—and the first member without a backbone, researchers say.""" What about hermit crabs, trap door spiders, and those crabs that build refuse that they find on their shells as camo?