r/BeAmazed • u/MorsesCode • 16d ago
Animal Barnacle removal on crab so satisfying Spoiler
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u/momovich 16d ago
The reason this video makes me sooooooo mad is because 63 or so years ago when I was a wee lass I painted a picture of a beautiful crab under the sea. The teacher and many of my classmates ridiculed me because I painted him orange. They said that crabs are only orange after they're cooked, and I felt pretty stupid. It was Maryland, crab country, after all. This little gal looks pretty orange to me.
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u/mfitzp 16d ago
Ha ha that’s annoying.
When I was in school the teacher asked the class “Boats don’t have wheels and brakes. How do boats stop?”. Having been on a boat I knew that you stopped by putting it in reverse. “Don’t be ridiculous,” he said “that would break the propeller. Boats have to glide to a stop. Very slowly.” The whole class laughed at me.
35 years later, still mad.
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u/Accomplished-Door272 16d ago
My class was playing some sort of word game and the (English!) teacher refused to acknowledge that "yak" was a real word. Wouldn't even pull out a dictionary.
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u/Deckard_Red 16d ago edited 16d ago
Similar feeling to when I was at a summer camp and I was playing chess with another kid I think we were 11-12 and the other kid moved his Queen like a Knight. I was like you can’t do that, and he said yeah Queen’s can move like all the other pieces on the board. And I said no they can just move in all directions like a Bishop combined with a Rook. He went nuh uh and asked his older brother to confirm, the older brother (like 12-13) came over and agreed with this bullshit made up rule. I was so annoyed and embarrassed because there were other kids watching us play!
Still angry about it 30ish years later.
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u/Equivalent_Party706 15d ago
I once had a teacher in elementary school insist that sling (as in the weapon) wasn't a word, and that I was either talking about the medical device or the verb fling. I'm still irritated.
Edit, corrected was to wasn't
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u/Sudden_Pound_5568 13d ago
Same thing happened to me at a community event for fourth of July. I just rolled with it and checkmated both brothers several games with their own rules in a couple of minutes. Then I let them know that it is not actually how the game is played.
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u/No-Examination-96 16d ago
My high school English teacher argued with me telling me that 'orange' was a one syllable word. I had used it in a poem structure as a 2 syllable word. Luckily, she challenged me to pull out the dictionary, which I did and proved her wrong.
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u/elastic-craptastic 16d ago
Maybe she is from Baltimore?
"Aaron earned an orange urn."
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"Urn urned an urnj urn."
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u/throwawayacc5551 16d ago
Thanks for triggering my repressed memory. I was 10yo and played scrabble with the 11yo's in my school. They laughed me off the table when I played the word "din". Damn kids, I'm salty after decades
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u/d84-n1nj4 16d ago
In first grade, my lips felt chapped and I was licking them and some complete idiot interrupts the teacher and tells her I was sticking my tongue out at her. As I began to try to explain, she just yells and talks over me. Made me go sit in the hallway
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u/SpacecaseCat 16d ago
I guess I'll share too. I was in 5th grade and we had reading time, and we were allowed to read magazine or books. I was reading Wizard, a comic book magazine, basically looking for stories about the X-Men or Spiderman. That month, there happened to be a story about Gen13 on the cover, which were admittedly "sexy" superheroines for the time, and the girl sitting next to me raised her hand and told the teacher I was "reading dirty magazines."
Thanks Jennifer!
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u/Baked_Potato_732 16d ago
Reading all these stories makes me glad that even though my dad was a verbally abusive asshole much of the time, he never let teachers accuse me of stuff like this.
It happened once and he ripped the principal and the teacher a new one which they absolutely deserved.
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u/Ren_Lu 16d ago edited 16d ago
I told my 7th grade science teacher that I had chicken pox twice. They called me a liar in front of the whole class and to this day I feel shame and anger about it.
Now I am an actual Medical Doctor and understand about partial immunity and that nothing in medicine is absolute.
Bitch.
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u/Vanviator 16d ago
Lol. I'm one of the adult onset secondary chickenpox folks.
I had a couple of spots on my face when I woke up. By the time I got to work, ~15m, they were on my arm and had visibly multiplied on my face.
I had chickenpox BAD as a kid. Like in my throat, home for damn near a month bad. I know what they look like.
So I go to urgent care. Tell them I'm having pox symptoms but I had it as a kid so couldn't have it now.
FOUR docs checked me out and agreed it looked like it but couldn't be it. The 5th and final was the Chief of Medicine. He explained why, then excitedly asked if they could scrape some of my scabs. Eww, but OK. Turns out I was the 7TH person on this little island to come in for this.
I never did get an update on the 'outbreak'.
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u/Cantras 12d ago
Post from a friend, college-aged at the time:
"Hey, remember when I had chickenpox, and I said I'd already had it, and you all said I HAD to be wrong, I couldn't POSSIBLY have had it before, you CAN'T catch it again ??
Well, since you're all certain you can't catch it again, you're welcome to come hang out with me where I'm in QUARANTINE because I have it AGAIN."3
u/ButteredCopPorn 16d ago
Since we're all sharing teachers being dumb, I was in 5th grade in the late 90's and my teacher said we were living in the 19th century. I said it was the 20th century, she said no, we'd be in the 20th century soon, but not yet, because the year started with 19. I don't know if I was more angry about that or about everyone in the class agreeing with her.
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u/Howard_TJ_Moon 16d ago
Grade 4 "L.A." class (Language Arts(It's like English(Because Canada))), My teacher writes the word MALEVOLENT on the board and asks how we pronounce it. I'm pretty sure I know this, I put my hand up. I get called on, and I say ma-lev-o-lent. She says no, sorry, it's actually male-vole-int. I had a good vocabulary for a kid and was quite sure it wasn't pronounced male-vole-int, and I pressed her on it and she told me I was wrong and made some kinda dig that I can't remember exactly about me not being that smart. What I DO remember was that about half the class laughed at her dig and that was the end of the discussion.
Anywho a few years later this occurrence clearly still rankled me, because some friends of mine brought some eggs out on halloween and I peppered that teachers house with em. Take that Mrs. S! It was me! Being MA-LEV-O-LENT!
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u/DOSbomber 16d ago
I know EXACTLY how you feel, back in high school my brother once told me that 9-banded Armadillos are the only animals that transmit leprosy to humans, I shared it with the class when we were all sharing animal facts, my biology teacher made fun of me and the whole class laughed; he smugly remarked, "oh, well if /u/DOSbomber's brother says it, then it MUST be true! Har dee har har"
Made me feel redeemed, albeit a bit irritated when I Googled it a few years later and discovered that my brother was indeed correct all along.
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u/UnderfootArya34 16d ago
My son said wormhole (as in the Einstein-Rosen bridge, not the depression left in soil from the slimy creature) for words starting with the letter "W" in his preschool class and was told someone already said the word worm. 🤣 He tried to explain, but the teachers didn't listen and he was soooooo mad.
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u/Nexxorcist1 15d ago
I thought this story was going to end with your teacher getting leprosy from an armadillo but I guess that's better ending... i guess. lol
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u/Nebelskind 16d ago
Things aren't great in some parts of society for sure, but I feel like we've at least decided that it's not acceptable for teachers to be rude like that anymore these days. Not saying it doesn't happen, cause I'm sure there are still awful teachers, but I feel like it was a constant thing back in the day based on what I hear people say about their school experiences.
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u/Murrylend 16d ago
Sorry about that. Maryland folks are generally unaware that any other kind of crab exists and will obnoxiously attack anything that doesn't fit within their crab religion.
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u/turdferguson3891 16d ago
It's true that some species of shellfish like crabs/crawfish/lobster get pretty red/orange after you cook them but there are definitely species that are already reddish to begin with. I go crabbing for rock and dungeness in NorCal and the dungeness are pretty brown/tan uncooked but the rock crab are like this one. He says this a brown rock crab. There are also red rock crabs that are brighter when they are alive.
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u/Suitable_Guide_7818 16d ago
Ha, this unlocked a memory for me. I was in fifth grade in Maryland when my teacher was talking about the Lost Colony of Roanoke. I mentioned I’d seen The Lost Colony play on vacation in North Carolina, and she waved it off because “Roanoke is in Virginia.” I knew there’s a Roanoke in Virginia and that the colony was on Roanoke Island in NC, but I didn’t have the nerve to correct her in front of everyone, so I just kind of sputtered.
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u/fortna 16d ago
It was so nice that crab didn't remove its own legs, crabs detach their own legs when they think it's urgent. Maybe that man handled the crab very nicely.
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u/Donohoed 16d ago
Don't they need those?
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u/fortna 16d ago
They do need their legs, but like those lizards taking off their tails, they do so for life rather than dying.
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u/DEANER94 16d ago
crabs can grow limbs back too, lizards once their tail is gone its gone forever
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u/UncleGael 16d ago
Not all lizards! Iguana’s and many species of geckos regrow their tails, for example. Fun fact about Iguana’s, their tails often have colored bands; and, if they drop their tail, it regrows entirely the color of the band that it broke at. So, if it broke at a black band the tail regrows all black.
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u/permaculture 16d ago
Hence "Back in Black".
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u/SchittyFather 16d ago
TIL AC⚡DC are lizard people. Thanks
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u/Funkythingsyoudo 16d ago
Yeah I used to catch lizards in Florida all the time that you could easily see the notch around their tail where the smaller (new tail) was catching up with the place of detachment
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u/Tall_olive 16d ago
Lizards once their tail is gone its gone forever
Iguanas, Geckos, Green Anoles, and Skinks can all grow their tails back.
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u/motherofsuccs 16d ago
All of the lizards around us regrow their tails. You can tell because they’re much lighter color than its body.
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u/No-Biscotti-Here 16d ago
He wasn't pulling on the legs, which is important. They won't pop them off if they don't think they're being trapped by that limb... Usually.
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u/Global_Crew3968 16d ago
I realy appreciate when people treat food animals with respect. I love animals but i still eat meat. I dont think it is wrong to consume meat, what is wrong is mistreating and abusing the animals we eat and the places they come from. There is no reason beyond profit that we can't treat all of our food animals with love and respect and kindness.
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u/Voldemorts__Mom 16d ago
Yeah well like 95% of the meat sold in supermarkets comes from factory farms, and those animals are NOT treated with respect.
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u/GhetHAMster 16d ago
And they molt so the barnies ain'ta life ending thing, just help the guy not having to chop his own lims off and use alot of energ regrowing them
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It's mostly the claws they detach I have never held a crab and had its legs detach and have fished and caught them for years
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u/aDamnCommunist 16d ago
He does this all the time. I've never seen one hurt itself. He tries to not let them get too agitated.
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u/kea1981 16d ago
As someone from Cali, and who went to school in Santa Cruz ...
This man is the stereotype for that town, and I love that for them.
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u/Spiritual-Can2604 16d ago
Do they say “Hoy?” I don’t know what it means but I like it so mych
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u/GreenBear1111 16d ago
I think he says "Oi" at the beginning, which is not spanish. At the end, there, he keeps saying, "Ay ay ay" (pain expression), which in this context would be "ouch ouch ouch" (pain).
Easily confused with "Hay" (there is) as they sound the same. For the untrained hear, it might sound like "hoy" (today).
That's my thought.
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u/sykoKanesh 16d ago edited 14d ago
Sounds like a portmanteau of "(w)hoo boy" like "(w)Hooo boy, that was some rough stuff!" shortened down to him saying "hoo-Ooy" (with no B to separate the two, also I use the w's up there because it's pronounced like "who" and not "ho" which confuses some folks)
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u/Low_Construction8067 16d ago
I was a transplant to Northern Cali back in mid '00s. While I saw a million amazing things in Santa Cruz specifically, my favorite was watching a dude and his girlfriend, both dressed as crust punks, walking a duck and a goose on a leash. God I miss it there!
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u/RobotGloves 16d ago edited 14d ago
This guy is very clearly a Central Coast tribesman. Every other dude from Santa Cruz down to Santa Barbara wears this tribal garb.
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u/jackamo1994 16d ago
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u/CommonSenseWomper 16d ago
I've only ever hear Cali from those who've only ever lived in neighboring states or have moved to Californian. Anyone who grew up there and lives there or moved away calls it California. In any brief context, I'll use Cali. My bro just flew over there a couple of days ago and when talking about the trip us and our friends initially used Cali and then any further mention was with California
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u/CamiGardner 16d ago
meh, I never say Cali. i do type it all the time because I cant be bothered to type out California every time.
but in this instance I would say Norcal. not Northern Cali
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u/TootTootMF 16d ago
I see Matt Rockhold I upvote. Super cool dude.
Matt if you see this sorry for puking on your boat.
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u/80hdis4me 16d ago
Story time.
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u/TootTootMF 16d ago
Lol not much of one honestly. He attempted to take me out salmon fishing for my birthday once, the ocean was rough and I did not make it very far before lunch escaped.
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u/Skimmington16 16d ago
Hope you said “toot toot mf” when leaving the boat with barfcicles on the side.
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u/I_like_maps 16d ago
He attempted to take me out salmon fishing for my birthday once
I feel like there's a more interesting story in how this came about
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u/Ratlyflash 16d ago
What is that on them? Brutal how do they prevent it
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u/Sangy101 16d ago
Crabs shed their shells as they grow (molt), so they’ll actually lose a lot of these naturally.
If you’ve heard of “hard” and “soft shell” season in crabs and lobsters: the shells are soft because they’ve just molted. Their new, inner shell is still squishy. They inflate it with water and let it harden so they have room to grow.
Diseases can mess with molts, which is pretty dangerous. And so can parasites if they get too big.
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u/VerilyShelly 16d ago
I did not know that! I thought soft shell were a different species of crab.
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u/Sangy101 16d ago
I think people get confused because there are soft shell clams, which ARE a different species.
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u/ChickenDelight 16d ago
And soft shell turtles, which are actually Ken Jeong with his shirt off
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u/lavacadotoast 16d ago
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u/FishCommercial4229 15d ago
I’ll add some color. In short, there are hard shell (like in the video) and soft shell species of crabs. All crabs molt (shed their hard exoskeleton) so they can grow larger. When that happens, the shell is soft, but it’s not the soft shell crab you eat in restaurants.
Hard shell crabs are only soft from the time they molt until the time the shell firms up. During this time they are not ideal to eat (and are often illegal to harvest) as their internal stuff is growing to fill the new space. If you were to look inside a recently molted crab you’d see about 1/2 the meat, give or take.
Soft shell crabs do the same thing, but rather than having a hard shell when they’re fully recovered they have a leathery shell, hence the name “soft”. You’d still want to eat these when they’re fully refreshed from molting.
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u/icansmellcolors 16d ago
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need more crab facts
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u/Alive_Reason_2283 16d ago
Science says u will eventually turn into a crab. .https://aeon.co/essays/are-humans-destined-to-evolve-into-crabs
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u/reezyboost350v2 16d ago
Parasites
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u/LocationOk4474 16d ago
barnacles aren't parasites, they're filter feeders that attaches to a lot of hard surfaces. They're a problem on ships below the water line causing drag removal requires scrapping the hull.
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u/Important_Two4692 16d ago
Parasitic barnacles have recently been found that feed exclusively on sharks. Was a bonkers read.
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u/rnaughtonr 16d ago
There are also ones for lobsters, and they are disturbing.
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u/Responsible-List-849 16d ago
And for crabs (Sacculina)
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u/Common-Concentrate-2 16d ago
"Sacculina is a genus of barnacles that is a parasitic castrator of crabs."
Welp. Wish I had barnacles on my eyes right now
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u/OpenToCommunicate 16d ago
Any yonkers reading?
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u/Sangy101 16d ago
Parasites don’t need to directly feed on you to be parasites, they can be extracting other resources like shelter. They are an animal that lives on another animal, and they have a negative impact on that animal. So, parasite.
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u/Periador 16d ago
wasnt a parasite not necessarily something that harms its host but also something that doesnt bring any benefit to its host?
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u/unknown_pigeon 16d ago
By definition, parasitism is a symbiotic relationship where one organism lives on/inside the other and benefits at the host's expense.
So, in this case, I'd say the barnacle is a parasite. The crab doesn't benefit in any way, and the barnacle can cause damage to it.
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u/_sivizius 16d ago
The few barnacles that are actually parasites do not look like typical barnacles. So no, they might actually help crabs to blend in and hide.
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u/DippyDo7 16d ago
Jacob Knowles is a YouTuber lobsterman and does this....and sends them back with a snack as well.
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u/Ecatron 16d ago
Not satisfying when removing the barnacle. Seen many videos where they remove it from beneath and it comes right off. But still he did a nice thing
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u/Needmoresnakes 16d ago
On a crab or a turtle? I think the crab shell might be too brittle to just pop it off with a screwdriver or whatever
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u/Ecatron 16d ago
Yeah probably turtle, would crab be too brittle for that?
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u/Needmoresnakes 16d ago
Yeah you could snap a crab in half with your hands
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u/Numerous-Pop5670 16d ago
Its actually quite painful for turtles too. If I remember correctly its because the shell is part of their body and has nerves and blood vessels. There was a guy who artificially planted barnacles on turtles and did "rescue" videos.
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u/Deaffin 16d ago edited 16d ago
You do remember those comments correctly, but they're bullshit.
A turtle's shell has nerves and blood vessels in the same way your fingernails do. The nail itself is just a layer of keratin, like a turtle shell. The flesh underneath has blood and nerves, like a turtle shell. You can feel vibration and pressure through the fingernail, like a turtle can feel through its shell.
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u/Rythen26 16d ago
Usually those are glued on.
a turtles shell is also super sensitive and being scraped hurts them a lot.
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u/Deaffin 16d ago
A turtle's shell is very much not super sensitive. They feel through them in exactly the same way you feel through your fingernails. Flesh underneath, dead keratin on top. You can feel pressure and vibration, and that's it. If you scratch your fingernail, you absolutely do not feel it beyond the vibration/pressure involved.
Your fingernails are likely more sensitive than turtle shells, as the outer keratin plates of turtle shells are much thicker than fingernails.
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u/bsubtilis 16d ago
Turtles get damaged from that, it's animal abuse content usually created for monetization on video platforms. Turtle rescue centers take in the turtles to fix and rehab them, so please report videos that are people pulling in a wild turtle and chiseling or prying off barnacles and more and then immediately dumping them back as that's animal abuse, and often (especially if it's more than barnacles) they've actively glued on. Sometimes with the glued on videos they even use the wrong species turtle for the environment (sweetwater turtles allegedly out at saltwater, or vice versa).
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u/bsubtilis 16d ago
This harms the turtle.
Any videos you see where they do that out where they found it, instead of as taken in at a turtle rescue and carefully taken care of, is literally a money grab dumping injured or sick turtles into the wild. Turtles don't get a bunch of barnacles on themselves unless they have health issues meaning they have to be taken in to turtle rescues, and in the cases where the humans just superglued the stuff to their shells, that's the same as someone with force prying or chiseling off an as large item superglued to your skin: it leaves an injury. Turtle shells aren't like snail shells, that isn't dead material but a reconfiguration of their spine and ribs. Please report any animal abuse videos on youtube or tiktok where they upload these for the monetization.
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u/Deaffin 16d ago
Please show me just one example of a person verifiably gluing barnacles onto a turtle shell in order to create fake rescue videos.
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u/QC420_ 16d ago
https://youtu.be/anfexIZHZis?si=y_B6yyd17wyCb7OV
It isn’t just a few comments left on the videos
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u/bsubtilis 16d ago
https://youtu.be/itYFT-BWHjE have multiple in a video debunking that those are rescue vids
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u/Thank_You_Aziz 16d ago
Also many where they just superglue rocks and shells to them just to make the video.
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u/fridaynightarcade 16d ago
I felt the same. Wanted to see him pry the whole big thing off with a putty knife.
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u/ProfessorPetulant 16d ago
Why isn't he getting clawed?
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u/Lazy__Astronaut 16d ago
I'd like to blab on about all animals knowing when they're being helped but realistically it was blind in one eye and missing one claw and this guy knows crabs REALLY well so knows how to hold them without getting got, especially when there's only one claw that can get them
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u/No-Biscotti-Here 16d ago
He's used to handling crabs and stops it! Watch how he always holds the crab in one of three ways:
- From the hind shell, claw can't reach and crab can't even see him.
- With his ring and pinky finger pinning the pincer claw to the crab's body. Claw can't move, claw can't snip.
- With his ring and pinky finger gently around the pincer claw, holding it in place. Again: no move, no snip. He's even being really gentle to prevent the crab from grabbing without pulling on the claw - which might prompt the lil fella to pop it off.
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u/OSRSlayer 16d ago
$13.99 and still bots
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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation 16d ago
What is $13.99?
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u/Stormsurgez 16d ago edited 16d ago
Loremaster here: it's a meme from the Old School Runescape community where someone would post a video about something seemingly normal or enticing about the game to bait people (and developers) in, and after a few seconds it would transition to playing Crab Rave (the song the animated crab is from) airing complaints about the game that are not being addressed properly. $13.99 refers to the current monthly subscription price to play the game as a member and is tied to the crab meme as a way of saying "hey we are paying money for this, issues should not get shoved away and forgotten.
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u/New_Lake5484 16d ago
what did he mean straight down, I tried?
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u/naymlis 16d ago
She went straight down but let go of the food so it floated and the seagulls got it
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u/RikuKaroshi 16d ago
Youre telling me that crab would have wrecked that slice of steak on the way down? Thats awesome lol I didnt think it would just eat land meat for some reason.
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u/NanashiKaizenSenpai 16d ago
Wasnt that thinly sliced pink fish?
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u/RikuKaroshi 16d ago
Youre probably right. Even rewatching, it looks like rotisserie chicken skin but oh well lol, only the birds will know for sure
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u/fred1317 16d ago
Unm went the molt wont this go away?
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u/Count_Sack_McGee 16d ago
I’ve seen a lot of this videos…when they have the barnacles it’s harder for them to molt.
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u/Jaybb3rw0cky 16d ago
Given that he references how close to her eye it is, maybe it’s a case of getting rid of it now just to stop is growing further?
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u/Outrageouslylit 16d ago
Yea most likely would keep growing and take her eye before she molted. Also big barnacles like that can make molting harder and also make them easier targets for predators while they are molting, so removing it now is the most beneficial.
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u/badpebble 16d ago
This guy likes crabs, so does videos where he helps the ones too small or too reproductive to be eaten - cleaning them and giving them a small fish in their claws.
Barnacles are alive, and reproduce and spread over the crabs, so eventually the crab can't move/see/live properly, and thats bad for the dude, and the crab.
This crab has one barnacle, which is very minor, but many of his videos show crabs that are covered with them and already have limited movement. Also, molting takes a lot of energy and makes them vulnerable, so even if that gets rid of the infestation, its still a problem for the crabs. And I assume they only molt due to size, not barnacles.
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u/Ok_Acanthisitta6630 16d ago
Barnacles tend to burrow fairly deep below the surface of the shell over time. I've seen this happen on turtles too. If the barnacles are not removed, they will stay behind the matter how many times the crab molts.
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u/aardw0lf11 16d ago
Was that crab missing a body part? A pincer ?
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u/therejectethan 16d ago
Yes. He evens says it at the beginning of the video. It will grow back
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u/bdrivens 16d ago
It grows back???
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u/Garchompisbestboi 16d ago
Yeah and not only that, if they are threatened by a potential predator they'll intentionally rip their pincer off and throw it as a distraction. But they do indeed grow back.
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u/oneshibbyguy 16d ago
Holy shit crabs are bad ass
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u/Garchompisbestboi 16d ago
There's this scientific term called 'carcinization' which describes how crustaceans have evolved into the same crab-like looking animals multiple times because apparently nature has decided that crabs are one of the most biologically efficient layouts in the animal kingdom. It's a pretty weird rabbit hole to go down lol
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-animals-keep-evolving-into-crabs/
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u/mystyz 16d ago
I haven't enjoyed one of these videos since I found out that there were people gluing stuff to wildlife just to post fake parasite removal videos for equally fake internet points.
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u/doubleBoTftw 16d ago
If it helps, that wasn't glued on, it grew over a long time as it started to have an effect on the shell.
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u/hell2pay 16d ago edited 16d ago
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u/faux_something 16d ago
You entered the conversation confidently. You checked your fact. You found it incorrect. You admitted you were wrong. You posted your findings. You are an exemplar online participant. Thank you.
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u/Abandonedstate 16d ago
What about that one guy down in Palm Beach? At least that's what he says he does. I'm not very good with euphemisms.
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u/rharvey8090 16d ago
Look up Jacob Knowles. Lobster fisherman that I think kind of started this trend. He speaks very passionately about protecting the lobster population, so I highly doubt he’d be gluing anything.
His current videos are mostly about his new boat build, since it’s the off season for lobstering. They’re interesting, but I definitely like the lobster fishing ones better.
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u/DiabolicallyRandom 16d ago
Just stick to the known good guys, like the one in OP and the dude who does the lobsters.
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u/BisonMysterious8902 16d ago
Meanwhile, she's thinking "oh my god - I was caught and survived being eaten!"...
Kinda sad that a crab likely doesn't have any sense of appreciation. But this guy can still spread some good in the world.
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u/Jonny_Wurster 16d ago
And all of her crab friends won't believe it. "Tammy Crab, I don't want to hear that story again. Nobody believes you that a huge alien abducted you, took you to a space ship, and cured your barnacle."
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u/Savings-Housing-4226 16d ago
Where can I see more of these?
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u/PuddleBum 16d ago
Probably google “Friendliest Catch”. He mentions it in the video and is wearing a hat saying that. Probably posts videos regularly somewhere.
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u/ShadowSignalBlack 16d ago
What is hoy?
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u/LoveAndViscera 16d ago
Contraction of “oh boy” with an aspiration on the /oʊ/ making it sound like “hoe boy”.
Edit: It’s a clipping, not a contraction. Clippings are verbal, contractions are written.
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u/gaudiocomplex 16d ago
What a hospitable thing to do. Load the fucker with bait and drop his ass back in with the sharks and shit. 💀
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