Eating baby turtles got crabs a bad reputation, but there is much more to these ten-legged living armors—including some crabs abandoning turtle butt cracks along with monogamy So, let's take a deep breath and dive in.

We will talk about the biology of crabs from crab anatomy to crab taxonomy. Examples will be spider crabs, ghost crabs, pea crabs, and more.

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FOOTAGE: Stills: Single ghost crab in turtle butt: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37319911 Ghost crabs in turtle butt: https://news.clas.ufl.edu/joseph-pfaller-mike-gil/

Motion: Pea crabs: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/755-life-of-a-pea-crab Pea crab on green mussel: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parasite140113-mov2-olm_Pea_crab_Nepinnotheres_novaezelandiae_in_mussel.ogv

Youtube Sources: Crab molting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pEsPi1VKe4 Underside of crab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGtv5s7lfpk Fiddler crabs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg9WoCwrB10 Red crab egg release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pv3ZxQ0w2A Japanese spider crab in aquarium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSf5a3TY-O8 Japanese spider crab at Monterey Bay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnracOcQQq8 Millions of baby crabs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq98xZuRjV0 Spidercrab molting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmVlSEcRrEc Mountain of molt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQyopA3JoWo&t=1s Light-blue soldier crabs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLeA5eDFzes Baby turtle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU0p1wB__2U Baby turtle escaping from crab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU0p1wB__2U Ghost crab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyZu1-rLU9c Ghost crab with bubbles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvHI3MFqeGM Oceanic crab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAesLy-am3Q Sea gull on buoy and floating plastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HBtl4sHTqU

CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction 00:31 Crab anatomy 02:03 Spider crabs 03:47 Pea crabs 04:50 Soldier crabs 05:49 Ghost crabs 07:12 Oceanic crabs 08:38 Crabs and humans