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Hermit crab wears horrific doll's head as a shell due to a lack of affordable housing
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What’s causing hermit crabs to riot under water
In their attempts to seek out abandoned shells of sea snails to save themselves from predators, they are prone to a ...
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Hermit crabs
The Caribbean hermit crab, for example, lives in wetlands, but when it’s time to mate, will head for the seashore in huge masses. Amid the chaos, males and females find each other, coming partly ...
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These fascinating crustaceans live a shell of life in the St. Johns
Hermit crabs live inside empty gastropod or snail shells and are scavengers when it comes time to eat. The shell protects the soft abdomen and normally only its head and limbs project through the ...
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Seven sneaky survival strategies of reef animals
The hermit crab has a soft abdomen which it protects by occupying shells ... it uses a twitching lure protruding from its head as bait to attract unsuspecting prey. A banded seakrait’s tail… or is ...