Hermit crabs are small crabs that carry shells on their backs, both for a home and for safety. But with shells being harder to find year after year, hermit crabs have had to spend more time in shells ...
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As Hermit Crabs Turn To Plastic Waste For Homes, This Photographer Is Giving Them A Fighting Chance
When wildlife photographer Shawn Miller discovered Okinawa's hermit crabs living in plastic bottle caps instead of shells, he ...
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Hermit crab hero: Saving them from making trash their homes
On the shores of Okinawa, Japan, an American photographer witnessed something amazing. Hermit crabs were crawling into plastic bottle caps, using them as their home instead of shells. Illegal ...
Hermit crabs represent an intriguing model for the study of social behaviour and ecological adaptation. Their reliance on external shells as a form of physical protection has led to complex, ...
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It’s the Most Misunderstood Pet in America. If Only You Knew Where It Came From—and What It’s Capable Of.
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For you, a hermit crab’s lifespan is ...
Japanese researchers have described a new species of sea anemone that appears to share a mutually beneficial relationship with hermit crabs. The pale pink sea anemones, now named Paracalliactis ...
Kumamoto University-led team identifies Paracalliactis tsukisome sp. nov., revealing a rare example of co-evolution in the deep sea Researchers from Kumamoto University and collaborating institutions ...
Abrams, Peter A. 1981. "Shell fighting and competition between two hermit crab species in Panama." Oecologia, 51, (1) 84–90.
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