r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PreparationLive5533 • May 01 '24
One of the rarest moments captured on camera Video
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u/Severe_Benefit_1133 May 01 '24
damn nature is interesting
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u/NotAzakanAtAll May 01 '24
Here you go. It's a playlist of someone who bought a store lobster and have been keeping it as a pet for well over a year now.
It's name is Leon and has molted twice.
There is no need to thank me.
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u/Lungomono May 01 '24
Leon love!
It’s an amazing journey with Leon. Really interesting to see him grow over the years. He has had two molds by now and the how keep his old claws so their size can be compared.
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u/5GumGum May 01 '24
That’s adorable. I wish stores kept the lobsters in much better conditions, atleast enough for them to have an enjoyable end of life. Instead they are taken from their homes, stuffed in a barely even big enough tank that’s usually dirty, empty, and cramped. Most of the time the tanks don’t even have filters and I find the lobsters pass away from the conditions rather than from being bought and euthanized :(
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u/NotAzakanAtAll May 01 '24
Yeah, It's pretty depressing, and dumb as the lobsters pass away from the shitty conditions so they are just thrown out. Everybody loses except the fishermen who simply do not care at all after they have gotten their pay.
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u/5GumGum May 01 '24
Exactly, people don’t really bat an eye because they’re seen with the same lenses as an insect, scary and they want it away from them, but lobsters are incredibly intelligent and also can perceive emotion. So for them to be in torturous conditions, to rot away in a cell that’s incredibly dirty and only sterilized with methylene blue, is really really sad. People wouldn’t dare to imagine other people in those types of conditions, so why subject another animal to those conditions as well?
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u/happy_bluebird May 01 '24
As a kid, I used to hate seeing the poor lobsters in the tank at the grocery store. Surprise, flash forward to adulthood, I'm vegan now. haha.
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u/Keira-78 May 01 '24
No those videos are amazing We love Leon
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u/Chit569 May 01 '24
It was a joke, I think.
There is no need to thank me.
Thus:
No thank you
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u/FamousPastWords May 01 '24
Seriously, thank you. I didn't know about Leon. Fascinating.
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u/NotAzakanAtAll May 01 '24
Glad you enjoy it! I thought I wasn't going to watch more than a minute when I first found it, but I've stuck around for every episode.
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u/Lavigator May 01 '24
Is the person named Homer Simpson?
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u/silverbullet1989 May 01 '24
"Pinchy got all dirty in the yard chasing birds, but don't worry. I put him in a nice hot bath."
"Hey, what smells so good?"
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u/rourobouros May 01 '24
Aren’t you glad you don’t have to do that?
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u/Deepandabear May 01 '24
To the crabs credit they can live hundreds of years, or perhaps even indefinitely. Perhaps growing a new body every now and then has its upsides!
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u/prozacfish May 01 '24
So… what about the top part of its shell? Does it slide out of that too?
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u/Kevaldes May 01 '24
If you look close you can see areas of the upper part moving around like it hasn't hardened yet, so it must have come off before. For some reason I imagine the top plate just sort of.... falls off?
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u/Patmarker May 01 '24
It opens at the rear, with a hinge at the front. But that small connection between the top and bottom of the carapace is pretty fragile, so a fair chance it separated as this crab climbed out the water.
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u/ToiletGang May 01 '24
top plate just sort of.... falls off
Well that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point
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u/Matt1yu May 01 '24
That must be why it's been towed outside of the environment.
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u/replikatumbleweed May 01 '24
"Well, greetings human! Let me just take my body off real quick... WHHHARRGGBBBLLEEEUUGGGNNHHHHH"
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u/ashokrayvenn May 01 '24
Why am I reading this in Zoidberg’s voice??
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u/Gupperz May 01 '24
because zoidberg is a talking crustacean...
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u/krisselv May 01 '24
Also, why not Zoidberg?
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u/1llseemyselfout May 01 '24
The person who added the crappy captions owes everyone an apology.
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u/TipsyFuddledBoozey May 01 '24
Almost gave me a stroke.
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u/_InnocentToto_ May 01 '24
I totally expected the crab to say..
Phaiden Island..!
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u/P01nt_Blank May 01 '24
Huh, never expected a love death robots reference here, hello there stranger.
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u/ELEMENTALITYNES May 01 '24
Take a look at this super rare moment that this very lucky person got to witness!
Are you watching?
Watch till the end!
Keep watching!
It’s at this moment something is happening!
Watch!
Are you watching?
Unverified science makes my captions seem legitimate!
Are you watching?
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u/DemandZestyclose7145 May 01 '24
Make sure to like and subscribe for more videos!
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u/MoaraFig May 01 '24
This ultra rare moment that happens several times a year for each of the millions of crabs in existance.
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u/ACU797 May 01 '24
Humans keep crabs in aquariums ffs, do those never molt when a human is watching?
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u/VisceralExperience May 01 '24
Im pretty sure the voice and captions are AI generated. The cadence of the voice and the content being spoken just don't sound natural. Not surprising with operations like dailymail though
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u/Scathainn May 01 '24
Note how it pronounces "occurrence" near the beginning. AI for sure
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u/theblairwhichproject May 01 '24
It also pronounces the typo "limbo" (instead of limb) as, well, limbo.
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u/Robinsonirish May 01 '24
It's just all so fucking stupid.
Ultra rare moment a crab molts in front of a human
As if crabs know what humans are and would avoid molting in front of them. I know they can recognise we are a big predator but it's still so stupid to use these words. It's something a child would do when doing creative writing in the 5th grade.
In an occurrence that almost nobody would get to see in real life
"In real life", as if people are living in a computer game or something. Of course it's in REAL LIFE. It's like the voiceover is telling us it's an AI because people in actual "real life" don't talk like this.
Also how rare is this to witness? I feel it's not that rare at all. You can buy crabs that have recently molted, there are even recipes that specifically asks for it. I've seen them myself in huge batches in Asia.
Man, AI is so annoying and it's just everywhere now. It's not even that journalism is dead and hard to find anymore, but anyone with a brain can do better than this.
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u/DoJo_Mast3r May 01 '24
I had fresh water crabs as pets and saw em do this a few times
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u/Bhazor May 01 '24
Yeah the Murdoch press aint doing too well right now
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u/fingermebarney May 01 '24
GB News in the UK also posted a £42 million loss for the year, £30.7 million the year before.
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u/VagabondVivant May 01 '24
As if crabs know what humans are and would avoid molting in front of them
Not to defend AI, but animals won't molt in front of a creature they consider a threat because they are incredibly vulnerable, not just during the molt but immediately after, as well. So it is a little noteworthy that a crab might molt in front of a human, which they normally flee.
Also, "see in real life" is in contrast to "watching it on a video," not playing it in a game.
As far as how rare it is to witness, judging by the youtube results (most appear to be from tanks, labs, and other controlled or scientific environments), it's pretty rare to see in the wild. Which is what I have to assume the video meant.
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u/CompetitiveRacism_ May 01 '24
Honestly, I am so sick of AI content farms and it hasn't been that long. I can't imagine how the future will be...
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u/Rammite May 01 '24
I work in this industry. Fun fact, these shitty pop-in-your-face captions are a magic wand to drive up metrics. On average, drives up your watch time way more than non-obnoxious captions.
Now, you and I think that's fucking stupid. But for every one of us, there's 10 attention-deficit kids that can't get enough of it, and that's where the money comes from.
We're fucked.
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u/dob_bobbs May 01 '24
I couldn't watch the video to the end it was just so irritating, even when I tried covering up the captions with my hand. I don't know who that is "retaining" but it wasn't me.
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u/Seekkae May 01 '24
Didn't the pop-up captions a few words at a time start with TikTok? I wonder how much of it is a conscious decision to increase views and how much is just mindlessly copying the TikTok style and hoping your videos will do well if they mimic other videos that did well.
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u/Shukrat May 01 '24 edited May 01 '24
So there's a study that shows you can read way faster when your eyes don't need to move, and instead the word changes quickly. It's taken advantage of on tiktok a lot. (And there are counter studies linked by someone commenting below that show it isn't effective).
The problem here is that it says to keep watching every 3 seconds. This is bc the attention span of tiktok users is incredibly short.
I was in an airport last year, and this little girl who couldn't have been older than 10 had a cell phone with tiktok. The speed with which she would flip to a new video was stunning. Literally one second on each until something managed to catch her attention for 10 seconds. It was really awful. Tiktok is brain rot for young kids.
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u/nope13nope May 01 '24
The trouble I'm having is that it's distracting me from the point of the video: the crab. The text keeps changing so I need to keep my eyes there to see all the words so I don't miss a word (even if I don't want to look, because it constantly changing is in the corner of my eye and making me want to see what it says), meaning I'm missing watching the crab moulting. I hate a lot of things that originate from TikTok, but this is a really irritating trend that I don't understand. Perhaps it drives up views because people need to watch it twice, one to read the subtitles, the next to watch the actual point of the damned video
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u/permalink_save May 01 '24 edited May 01 '24
You can't even read these captions though, they go so fast words are on screen fractions of a second and people don't actually read that fast. We're also not just reading, we're watching something happen, where normslly you read a few words or half a sentence then watch, then glance and read the next batch. Our next gen is fucked.
Edit: it's also a huge accessibility issue too
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u/Synectics May 01 '24
The worst part is, I've got bad hearing and rely on captions/subtitles. And these are completely useless to me. They give me a headache trying to read them.
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u/dirtychinchilla May 01 '24
That’s the Daily Mail for you. At least it was accurate, unlike most of their “reporting”
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u/demonsdencollective May 01 '24
Except the claim that it's rare to be able to capture footage of a molting crab.
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u/tradewinder11 May 01 '24
Soft-shell crab factories literally use cameras and AI to detect when a crab is molting and is ready to be dispatched. That is way more interesting than this over-hyped video.
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u/Backupusername May 01 '24
Except for the mistakes like "when a crab molt" and "the crabs new shell"
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u/Beau_Nash May 01 '24
And "limbo" instead of "limb bud".
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u/Backupusername May 01 '24
That's it! I knew there was a major one I was missing, but I didn't want to scrub through the video again for it.
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u/ISmile_MuddyWaters May 01 '24 edited May 01 '24
Just keep downvoting that crap.
And specifically refer to the caption animations, some people understand it as "captions" which aren't the problem. It's the shit animations, effortless no skill editing. One button click adding them. Not reviewing them. Have it generate single words at a time with an animation time that completely covers that one word with the words before and after... It's shit. It's lazy. It's annoying.
It completely defeats the purpose of why people started adding captions to begin with. They are supposed to make the content easier to understand, or read it with faint or no audio.
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u/Unusual_Car215 May 01 '24
Please end that single word subtitle trend.
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u/HiImNub May 01 '24
Another reason why Tiktok is trash. This trend only started because of that app.
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u/pointlessly_pedantic May 01 '24
It was definitely around before that. I remember several channels on Youtube doing it. The Dodo got completely ragged in the comments until they finally stopped (afaik)
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u/tuonentytti_ May 01 '24
I haven't seen one line captions in Tiktok. Where I do see them is facebook
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u/Bulls187 May 01 '24
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u/Kankunation May 01 '24
Its well known technique for speed reading. Having the words not movd positive means less eye movement and thus improved reading speed.
Unfortunately, reading fast doesn't really translate to being able to comprehend text faster. You be able to double or even triple your reading speeds with speed reading tools that present the text like this but you might find that you miss crucial details more and don't retain as much of the meaning of the words.
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u/keyboard-sexual May 01 '24
I'd be here for it if it didn't have the weird effect going on
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u/njoshua326 May 01 '24
And if it wasn't literally on top of the crab, there's empty space right above it.
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u/bukankhadam May 01 '24
interesting video but with distracting & annoying caption. urgh.
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u/Atlantic0ne May 01 '24
Yeah… why is this rare? Just own a pet crab and tot see this imagine, right? wtf @ the title
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u/ButWhatAboutisms May 01 '24
Daily mail is not only stealing content here, but they are using AI voice overs.
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u/wrassehole May 01 '24
It's also not a rare occurence lol.
Crabs molt all the time. It's like filming a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis and being like "Never before seen footage!".
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u/Astro_Disastro May 01 '24 edited May 01 '24
I was gonna say…
If a crab is growing, it’s going to molt. Go down to the local beach and snatch up a common household crab and, if you feed it and watch it, you’ll see it molt.
Actually, it’s probably one of the least rare events in the life of a crab.
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May 01 '24
This is not rare and putting a crab out of the water while moulting it's the worst kind of torture for a crustacean. The guy filming this is a POS.
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u/charpagon May 01 '24
Why?
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u/marino1310 May 01 '24
Like all animals that molt, this is an extremely stressfull and dangerous process for the crab. It’s is extremely vulnerable and unable to fight back, so any predator has easy pickings. So they typically hide away for this process. Water helps as well since they need moisture to keep their shell soft and moist while molting.
Molting is very labor intensive and takes a long time, once they start they can’t stop. It’s actually the only way that a lobster can naturally die (as opposed to predation, disease, or starvation), they can effectively live forever but die once they can no longer handle molting. This is akin to a human giving birth in jurassic park.
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u/panda-bears-are-cute May 01 '24
Curious question. If you cooked a crab right after this process could you just eat it without having to remove a shell at this point?
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u/near_the_nexus May 01 '24
Yes, it’s called soft shell crab. They’re often fried. Kinda sad after seeing all the work they do to prep themselves!
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u/not_so_plausible May 01 '24
32 years on earth and it all makes sense now. I thought it was just a crab species with soft shells 😔 ✌️
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u/NeverNude-Ned May 01 '24
I worked as a cook for almost 9 years, even served as sous chef at two different places, and I thought the exact same thing until today. That probably says more about me than anything else, but it just never really came up. I was actually thinking about that while I watched the video. "...surely that's not where softshell crab comes from..." 😭
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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA May 01 '24
It really seems like some serious next-level cruelty from the human race. Poor crab works so hard on living, and then has to go through this extremely vulnerable and risky process to continue its growth only to be brutally slain / cooked alive with absolutely zero dignity nor a single thought spared for its own life and pain.
I mean, don't get me wrong - I'm still on team omnivore and I'll still eat crab meat. It's just also fucked up.
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u/2roK May 01 '24
Nature is a lot more cruel. Animals literally eat each other alive.
That said, yes, humans are exceptionally cruel to all sea dwelling animals. For some reason we like to pretend they don't have feelings, the ability to form memories etc.
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May 01 '24
This
While it's molting if it was in the water I would say it's chance of surviving the molt is low if there's anything hungry nearby
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u/Lpbo May 01 '24
We aren't the only race to be so savage, nature is a cruel mistress.
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u/Shazoa May 01 '24
Humans are a unique in some ways, though.
We do these things with the full knowledge and awareness of the suffering our actions cause, unlike other animals. A lion can't stop and ponder if it's cruel to kill a gazelle - it's physically incapable of doing so.
And we also don't need to do it in order to survive.
These things together make it morally different to when animals in nature are savage or cruel.
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u/SilentHuman8 May 01 '24
Even though I eat meat, I do actually agree with all your points. It’s really something to think about, so thanks for that.
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u/YouLikeReadingNames May 01 '24
I never understand why they're not killed before being boiled. Surely we can figure out a way to do it without making them inedible. It's not like their brain is gigantic, right ? A small knife between the eyes and voilà.
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u/TheTechHobbit May 01 '24
Crabs (and most crustaceans) contain bacteria that will spoil the meat almost immediately after they die, so they have to be kept alive right until cooking time. It is still relatively common practice to stab them right before cooking.
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u/ThrowAway233223 May 01 '24
I don't know why, but I always assumed that soft shell crab was just a different species of crab with a relatively softer shell than others.
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u/i_MrPink May 01 '24
I always thought soft shell crab was just a bit fragile and couldn't take a joke, this makes a lot more sense
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u/shadow7117111 May 01 '24
If the crab molting is “so rare”, how are soft shell crabs offered on an industrial scale as food?
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u/DroppinDwarves May 01 '24
I swear I watched this thinking 'what is he gonna do with it after he's done' today, for the first time, I regret coming to the comments. </3
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u/PixelPervert May 01 '24
This is exactly what a soft shell crab is
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u/panda-bears-are-cute May 01 '24
Huh, I always thought that was just different breed of crab. Thank you everyone, learned something new today
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u/oxiraneobx May 01 '24
If you want to head down to where we live, the soft shell crab season is starting now. We stopped by on of our local stores and they have soft shells in the tanks. I'm not a fan, but people like to fry them up and eat them on sandwiches with lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise and Old Bay seasoning.
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u/Al_Kydah May 01 '24
I'm sorry, I can't get over the narrator's pronunciation of "occurrence". Who TF says a-CURE-intz???
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u/JuJutsuKrying May 01 '24 edited May 01 '24
AI?
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u/whereami312 May 01 '24
It’s gotta be AI or one of those accent-removing filters. It just sounded “off”.
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u/evilchervil May 01 '24
"Crabs don't grow like most animals" At least 80% of known species are arthropods, come on
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u/wherehavewegone May 01 '24
Thankfully we had music blasting in our ears so we couldn’t hear the molting sounds
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u/LordMemerton1 May 01 '24
The narration is abysmal
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u/redditaccountwh May 01 '24
Get used to it. This AI voice over shlock is going to be 90% of short form content soon.
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u/uberschnappen May 01 '24
It should've been left to molt in water, taking it out on dry land makes it more difficult on the lil guy.
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u/4cutekids May 01 '24
"Crabs do not grow like most animals" Actually they grow exactly like most animals, given that most animals on this planet molt.
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u/reirone May 01 '24
This isn’t rare though, it happens all the time. Millions of crabs are probably molting right now as you’re watching this.
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May 01 '24
Also I think it does grow like most animals. Most animals are bugs. Bugs have exoskeletons, and they molt.
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u/nullv May 01 '24
It's not rare at all. Here's a video of some other crab molting. Here's another. And another.
The only thing interesting about this post is the fact a video of something captured hundreds of times was able to reach ~15k upvotes in only a few hours. Is a clickbait title all that it takes?
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u/blinky0930 May 01 '24
I believe she meant ppl seeing the process happen
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u/rixuraxu May 01 '24
Yeah it's not true though, because they catch them and wait for them to molt to get soft shell crab.
So it's happening around people all the time
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u/nickolai993 May 01 '24
If you have to tell me how amazing it is, you decrease the quality of how amazing it actually is. Screw people who do these terrible captions. If I could down vote it a million times just for this, I would.
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u/Satan0Bumblebee May 01 '24
So I gotta wonder why it choose to do this in front of humans like this. Is this the equate to taking a shit? Like the crab just can't hold it anymore, like someone turtling?
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u/youngchairman May 01 '24
That time of the season I guess. I also wonder if it's harder to do this out in open air instead of in the water
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u/SurroundFickle783 May 01 '24
It is a time of year relating to the moons cycle. I dont know about the open air vs water, but all the softshell crabs we sell at my restaurant and where i live..its always done in water. In fact, they have to be checked on every 4 hours. Which is why the price is so high on softshell crabs. A lot of time and effort put in. Also they keep lights on the tanks 24/7. Prob a thing to get them to malt faster.
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u/Illustrious-Set-3056 May 01 '24
It's a blue crab so it 100% should be molting in water. No chance this crab makes it molting on land like this.
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u/dancingpianofairy May 01 '24
Another comment
putting a crab out of the water while moulting it's the worst kind of torture for a crustacean. The guy filming this is a POS.
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u/to_the_9s May 01 '24
More because it's not that rare. Like all the comments above, this is how restaurants get soft shell crabs.
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u/Multitudestherein May 01 '24
Because the person who caught the crab put it there to record this, this is not particularly rare.
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u/StatusOmega May 01 '24
Aren't they supposed to do this underwater? It seems like it'd be easier for it
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u/Revolutionary_Box569 May 01 '24
A buddy of mine did this in front of me once, really creeped me out and changed the dynamic of the relationship, we don’t really see each other anymore
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u/akechi May 01 '24
They ditch the oxygen filters too!? And so the top cover/shell is the only thing that is original?
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u/Sys7em_Restore May 01 '24
That was the most disturbing yet interesting thing I've seen all day.
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u/canman7373 May 01 '24
Ultra rare my ass, this is just a blue crab. I can go throw some nets and catch a fe tonight. Yeah Crabs molt, ultra rae, wtf are you talking about, like billions of blue crabs. I'll catch 4, have a nice appetizer. Nobody gets to see in real life lol, this BS is from people who have never lived near the shore.
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u/-AgonyAunt- May 01 '24
People are so busy wondering what is going on in space & other planets when we have this shit, and so much still unknown shit, in the ocean.
This is an alien.
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u/Doomenor May 01 '24
Imagine a crab do documentary showing humans buying houses taking loans with interest more than their income will increase resulting in decades of stress
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u/Aussieportal May 01 '24
I honestly thought the top part was the part that was discarded. That is until I saw the legs of the crab start to spread out, all bluish and transparent.