Hermit Crabs Use Litter for Shells | Wild Thailand | BBC Earth
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2018
- Shells are hard to come by on this beach, so these resourceful hermit crabs have found another solution...
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"Modern problems require modern solutions."
That always works out well...
If there was ever a time or place for that statement, it’s here and now
this phrase is the perfect fit imo
Quality comment!
Absolute GENIUS!!11! :)))
*Hermit crab sees any hollow object relative to it's size*
"it's free real estate"
US government steals some land.
*”I T’S F R E E O I L”*
Pile Of Crap Did you know this though. "Oil world turns upside down as US sells oil in the Middle East. USA set to be world's largest oil producer."
lol
*GREAT JOB*
Small Boy Art Boy - there’s a woman who 3D printed little citiyscape shells for hermits...
The rangers leaving out shells for the crabs are 100% real homies.
I see what you did there
Until the crabs realise they're now on a tenancy agreement
On the Cantare, “ rangers leave shells next to piles of trash” doesn’t really seem efficient if ur js gonna leave the trash there
I think they should put a signage or poster at the beach. "Don't pick seashells, don't steal the hermit crab's home". Most people are not aware about this until you see this video. 😓
Hopefully they have employed that solution. I thought the same thing.
It's not just seashells. In recent years idiots started making tall piles of rocks at the beach, ruining the hiding places of regular crabs and other invertebrates.
i doubt any places taking care of beaches care about the crabs
True
I agree that the majority of people will leave the shells.
There will ALWAYS be a lot of people who think, "I just took ONE..."
But, I still think most people would stop gathering shells if they knew.
two hermit crabs fighting over a Pepsi can on the beach.
yes, thats the content i'm watching at 4 am.
Daida / Saruman go to bed and be productive tomorrow my guy
Hahaha that comment made my night
@@50shekels u seem very productive...
@@dragonboimmdvideos are you gonna explain yourself or just be passive-aggressive?
10.000 Subs With No Videos probably because of your channel name
Everybody gangster until a can of peas starts walking
lmao
😂😂😂😂
🤣😂😂
I would probably shit myself, that's like picking up a rock with a centipede on it×10^24
Glory Kent sorry I commented somthing similar
lots of respect for the men who puts the shells for the hermit crabs. thank you. I never thought taking shells was an issue until today.
some places it can be. others not so much
Its a non issue.
@@kvj1989Why?
Funny how instead of picking up the litter, we choose to steal up their homes. It’s a gentrification metaphor somewhere in here but idk where
@@quempire2656 because new ones are made daily. some places are littered with cool shells. taking a few for your shelf wont hurt anything.
“Every time a shell is removed, a crab loses a potential new home”
With only £1 a month, you can provide food and shelter to hermit crabs.
Love it
Underrated comment
🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's so funny
UnDeRrAtEd CoMmEnT
I'll never pick up shells again...I'm sorry lil buds
Hi
Anyone else here notice that all the edges of the cans and glass bottles are all sanded down or bent back in? So they don't cut themselves. This is a facade, but why lie about this?
@@blackthunderbird425 For cinema without hurting the crabs. I'm sure plenty of them actually use rubbish as homes, but this is so they can control the shoot a bit.
Black ThunderBird that’s happens when they’re exposed to the elements, genius.
@@hereforthefoolery7217 I recycle containers for a living, I know what I'm talking about. Lol "genius"
Crabs have entered the aluminium age...crab people are upon us
Craaaab people craaaab people...
A good one!
Looks like crap, speaks like people
*Craaaab people craaaab peeeeople*
Underrated
Crunch Buttsteak 😂😂😂
Learning how they line up and change shells with each other made me feel so happy!! We need to share the message about not taking shells of the beach to protect these babies!!
Hermit crabs have learned to recycle too... and it was so sweet of the local ppl to leave empty shells for the homeless hermit crabs 😍👌
I never ever imagined in my life that collecting sea shells could harm these crabs this way. I'll never do that again.
me neither : (
Yea put them back
nik javier too late they died
@@lowkedout4209 bro do you even lift?
Vlädpoofin do u even have a brain? grow one cuase i jst lost brain cell hearing u
Bless those rangers!
Matthew Ford when they said tne rangers put extra shells around the garbage i was so happy
For a moment tears rolled down my eyes when i saw that crab with tin.
I will never collect shell again.
And thank u to that gentleman for being more human that most of us.
Nah. I'm still picking up shells since I don't live nearby any kind of beach. Free souvenir
@@DragonguyA:/
@@DragonguyA What? I don't think you're supposed to use that as an excuse. It's okay if you take a few but please don't do this often when you get to the beach :(
@@anncheen I probably will just take a few. I don't think I'll have enough space on my luggage for a bunch of them
When I go to the beach, I'll be sure to not take any shells. I will just take a picture of them. I feel so bad for them.
It's F R E E R E A L E S T A T E
FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ayyyy
Best comment; but its still sad
Theonimusha 69
Not just free R E A L E S T A T E
but free *O I L*
Absolute fuckin ayyy
Bro, you still have a shell? I have an aluminum exoskeleton.
Aluminum falcon
@@junediaz4841 whats the hell is an aluminum falcon
@@doctoroctopus2620 like soft anilumium like drinks can
It's funny but sad, what are we doing to our animals.. 😟😢
Not an exoskeleton tho
As a shell collector… *Now I just feel like garbage.*
Just return the shells you collected to a beach?
I mean... It's never too late to stop
@@watyes7546 Yeah I know.
@@caseys8689 Yeah let me drive all the way back to the beach to dump shells.
@@huntercool2232 Good. They weren’t yours to begin with anyways ;)
I fail to understand how people dislike a nature video like this.
They’re homeless crabs
Regular shell = Heavy armor
Mackerel can shell = reinforced metal armor
Aluminum can = Lightweight metal armor
The tank build is best
I think your right, I don't think a Mantis Shrimp and knock a hole in a can.
@@ericdebord
They will die of the shockwave though
Now I want to make pay to win Hermit crab and 3D print it titanium shell
I’ll think twice before I ever start grabbing shells. 🦀
Screaming Tima no need to think twice just don't grab it
Screaming Tima I had a hermit crab pinch me once for picking it up 🐚🐌🐌
That’s right 🦀 ✊
G DONOZETTI It's a figure of speech dumb dumb
Screaming Tima
I bet the us army doesnt think twice when searching for *O I L*
Nature is so amazing and beautiful. Thank you to the people that LEAVE shells. The other humans think, "I'll take your beautiful home; you have my garbage!"
I did a thing, changed their world.
ya i do agree
Other people: a can
Hermit crabs: *Initiate Tank mode*
It’s gonna be hell of an awkward moment to see a Coke can walking across the beach....
its free advertisement.
I keep telling coca cola about my extensive littering, but they refuse to hire me!
Autist
@@maggiep9007 lmao
The crabs are now adopting engineered materials. It's an evolution.
It was so cute when it went back to the can after it wasn't feeling the first shell, like awwww
Aww. She found her shell.
🐚❤️
These crabs have been playing fallout
or metal slug To be exact.
True
True Frankz Schrodinger
A weapon to surpass metal gear
Omega7 GIANT ENEMY CRAB
"This is a fast growing trend"
*Crabs using trash for clothes/homes*
This basically depicts modern fashion these days
This line is hilarious. 😂
Idk but crabs, I would say, are the admirable hobo of the amphibious animal kingdom.
I mean...its basicaly the same in the human fashion stile
Aparently putting holes in a jeans make it 1.000 dolars more expensive than a normal jeans
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All those “high end” designer brands that charge a huge amount of money for shitty quality items that are the same quality as regular lower end brands. Basically yeah…
But people still buy them anyway for social status and for the sole purpose of showing off….. Even though there are some brands that when worn right look like a million dollars when it just costs a fraction of the price of designer brands
Who else are getting a bunch of hermit crab recommendations from UA-cam after I did A Thing's video.
aye here m8
As an owner of two hermit crabs (one is a rescue) I actually find this rather depressing.
Hermit crab has just evolved into a steel water type
Its a regional variant..
Remember when you’ve asked someone where your drink went and they’ve told you “well it can’t just grow legs and walk off” now you can say “actually yes it can” .😂
"A crab stole my beer"
Can you be less punny
@@direncloe1416 I don't know if we CAN
"Everytime a shell is removed a crab loses a home"
That hit hard
Aw... 😢 They are so smart and adorable. Poor crabs... At least they know how to reuse.
Not even saddest. On Maledives I had many argues with parents whose kids were collecting hermits in buckets, then forgot them while having dinner and in the next morning there were 30, sometimes up to 60 dead hermits. Per bucket!!!
I love children but I don't love parents who go with them in holidays to places like this and Let them destroy and kill nature just for having fun and don't teach them to protect and maybe observe nature just because of their own laziness and ignorance.
Katie von Olendörp exactly
Yeah I hate how bad some parents really can be...
Agreed!
there are billions of hermit crabs relax, humans taking shells is part of natural selection
I hate the people who do that. They act so ignorant.
* but i only pick one shell
- says by millions of people picking up a shell on the ocean
apdroid geek
Lmao.
@SweetDoodleDisaster YT and now there's a sand shortage.
@hydrogen oxide there actually is.
@hydrogen oxide there actually is. No joke
@hydrogen oxide no one says it's because of tourists.
Everyone said what I was thinking haha, never knew that picking up shells was harmful. We should definitely spread awareness of this.
Live images of Kril in the wild
Hermit hides in can, it's crafty.
Homeless guys lives in box, it's a bum.
A Panda's Love
True.
The hermit crab doesnt even have a brain the size of a pea.... he sees a hollow rigid object and attempts to take it as a shell.
Homeless people are people, not crabs.
We expect more from them, hence we are disappointed when they are comparable to unfortunate beach bugs.
Crab hides in a can, it's a hermit
A Hermit *crab* , Is a *Crab*
A homeless person, Is a highly intelligent homeless *Ape*
@@maggiep9007 Then create an economy and opportunities for the them not to be homeless if you are so concerned about the riffraff in the streets.
Person: *Sees empty tin can on beach*
Person: “Ew that shouldn’t be here”
Hermit Crab: *Sees empty tin can*
Hermit crab: “IT’S FREE REAL ESTATE”
Kanightley thankyou
I loled
Yeah people go "EW why is there garbage here" yet they don't do shit about it lmao. Y'all just walk past it cus you expect others to do what you should have done in the first place 🙄. Bunch of lazy goons
@@Gryptonaire fr
@liam Anderson um, that would be bad for other animals tho
Its kinda sad but at the same time nice to see how life can use some of our trash to adapt and survive, life is amazing
the guilt and pity that went through me realizing my crimes of stealing shells from the beach gifkdjwj i'm so sorry crabs🥺
After they use litter as a shell their normally curled abdomen gradually changes shape to fit the new home meaning its difficult to go back to shells after so they keep using litter once they start.
Avbitten That would take many generations, its not too late to keep them on the same behavior
I'm not talking about adaption over generations. Their abdomens naturally slightly change to the container they are in. They have found hermit crabs with straight abdomens instead of curled that used bamboo shoots. the hermit crab association has confirmed that their abdomen can change shapes in different containers.
Avbitten yup they are pretty cool
So what you are saying is they become junkies to human junk?
Its possible for them to go back to shells, but crabs always want a shell a similar shape to their last one because their abdomen already adjusted to the last one.
It's both fascinating to see how the wildlife adapts to a changing world and saddening to see how we ruin the nature around us.
Whining Ylthin We're nature too, everything we do is part of it. We've come from the same origin.
Thats true
We do come from nature, but we also change it - and the change isn't always positive or beneficial for other parts of the ecosystem.
Whining Ylthin exactly i can't believe people don't understand if i could give you a thousands likes i would. A lot of people are just so inconsiderate to animals and people around them.
27decimotrio we are animals, its just that we are not wild.
3:20 yeha well I would prefer metal armor too
Hermit Crab: moves around a little
The Foley: *CRASH! BANG! KER-PLONK!*
Hermit crab: Improvise Adapt Overcome
Me: *hears cans rattling late at night* those damn crabs
If only some Australian dude would make some armored shells for these "crabs"
And a nazi logo on it would look great
@@mo_abb219 HCRA approves
As an experiment, I wonder if certain materials of 3d printed shells would work. Would have to be light weight & either environmentally friendly or biodegradable
Nice to know that bringing a seashell home for no apparent reason is messing up the entire ecosystem.
Can't even take a shit without feeding flies! I hate these summer holidays with mother nature.
No it's not "we are also part of nature"
@@superpeng898 so if we nuke the entire amazon rain forest, we're still not destroying nature because we're "part" of it? great logic
Life is full of opportunity
Yep if we nuke entire planet all human races will go extinct and life would finally growth again after 3000 year or so
If you really want a shell, just find one that looks unusable to a Hermit or find a nicely shattered one
> shattered
Doesn't that defeat the point of getting a nice shell?
Sand dollars are always a good bet; if they're on shore, the creature inside is likely already perished, and no other creature can use that shell.
If sand dollars are dead pick em up but if there not don’t
@@KitsunenoHibi doesn't taking the shells defeat the purpose that they serve? Dumbass.
just pick up clam shells I don’t think crabs can use those
The first group is the marine hermit crabs. These crabs spend most of their life underwater and rarely leave for land. The second group, the land hermit crabs, spend most of their life on land but need access to both fresh- and saltwater to survive and breed.
When your home becomes a walking AD 😂
it just went from a Water/Rock type to a Water/Steel type. Pretty interesting evolution
Kat Kat cool
Or bug/rock to bug/steel
Naked would be bug/water
Pokemon
@@plebulus Hermit crabs aren't bugs/insects though. I think Water/Rock type would make more sense.
They are arthropods
Hermit crab: Hey guys looks at my new diamond armor
“You take my shells, I take your cans”
I'll never pick up garbage again, what an innovative idea.
Now I want to buy seashells from the store and dump it back to the ocean
Dont. Theyll keep collecting it. If nobody buys it, might aswell bring it back. Sad thing is that they might just throw it away.
+hot dog and some might also break it... sad reality for them :(
Also a lot of ones sold in stores have acrylic paint which can be bad for them iirc?
so true YOLO
Boomer good idea 😂😂😂
I’d be losing it when I saw a crab using cans for their home.
Of course I’ll never pick up a shell from a sea shore.
Even the crabs are losing there houses to foreigners 😂
Videos like this are proof that not only is the planet independent in its care, but animals too. It's us that cause imbalance in nearly everything, especially in wildlife. Respecting animal and plant life will bring more benefits than you can possibly imagine :)
Red Bull doesnt just give you wings... Red Bull gives you home :)
Every time a person is collecting seashells they are stealing a whole home.
It’s free real-estate.
Someone else made that joke 2 months before you and theirs was better and has 2k likes.
Make your own jokes up, Amy Schumer!
Name Commingled it’s a meme....
So by littering we are literally giving crabs homes?!?! IMMA LITTER EVEN MORE NOW😃😃😃
1:29 "from the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel"
I maintain hope that some day a mad scientist will start making artificial shells for Hermit Crabs.
3d printed. double use as a can then a shell
@@mosesliao1932 the shells gotta have calcium bro
@@waynefonzarelli728 pour milk into them then
@@Erykfib 3D printed milk
this crab is getting sponsored by this food chain.
its obviously a product placement...
Tin can hermit crab is a big flex
taking "one man's trash is another man's treasure" to another level
“Life, uh, finds a way”
Jeff Goldblum
Hermit crab: **in tf2 heavy voice** I AM BULLETPROOF!!
Wow, so interesting! If I saw a crab in a can, I would have thought it was stuck and “rescued” it from the can. Glad I just found this video. 😳
I got this recommended just a few days after the IDAT video, anyone else?
It is so sad to see how much distress we are causing to the nature.
I am thankful that someone was thoughtful to provide the shells to the poor crabs
007Chakochi blah blah blah 🙄
Who do you mean by "we"?
Aren't the shells suppose to protect them to the sun ?.. wearing aluminum is like wearing solar-powered microwave..
It is one of the use but it is mainly for protection against predator. Since there isn't enough seashell they need to adapt even if it can hurt them.
They protect their soft areas--I think.
DracosKasurani that sad man
No, it's to protect them from predators lmao
This is great! Pre cooked crab already in a handy aluminum can!
crab after getting tin can: MY ARMOR IS IRON NO ARROW OR SWORD CAN PIERCE ME
That hermit crab picks up more litter than most humans.
An uncollected beach is an extraordinarily beautiful sight.
Urgh, the thought of walking barefooted on that beach... It's like walking in a room full of Lego.
@@g43654 The beach wasn't made for your comfort, you understand that?
M Fitzburger he’s not saying it was
@@kennethbeltejar5924 then why complain? c:
Beaches are naturally dirty
This is adorable and sad all at once!
Lesson learned for visiting beaches: “Take only memories, leave only footprints.”
I would have panicked if i saw those cans move on its own.
Whoever cleans up the tourists mess must be laughing at how all the cans they rounded up are moving the next day on crabs 😂
Why do you assume the cans are from tourists?
fuck fortnite
home mortgage crisis is real..
ranger is awesome
such respect for nature
bless
I feel me sad with this situation of Hermit Crab around the world ,the shells are natural protections for It
Watching from Brazil🇧🇷I Love BBC!!!
**FALLOUT 4 INTENSIFIES**
Ha! Leave some toy cars on the beach for them.
( Uses crabmeat can as new home , becomes meme )
Id kill to see that
dunderfisting neanderpanties kill me please
Equivalent of a human living in a house with everything made from human skin, chairs, beds everything
All his crab friends are gonna go around saying he raised from the dead and crab Jesus will go around performing miracles and the crab following will reclaim the holy dry land.
@AleNoConstancy
did not expect to see scp related stuff here smh
Congratulations, your *Homeless Dwebble* evolved into... *Metallic Crustle*
Awee so cute these little ones... I used to play with them when I was younger at My Aunts beach house.
0:50 "for just $0.35 a day you can provide new homes for these brave souls. We will send you a picture of the hermit crab you are helping and a keychain" lmao
*sea shell key ring 😂😂
"These CANNY crabs have found another source.." ..i see what you did there..
*One person’s trash is another crabs treasure*
- mr. Crab -
On the other side of the coin, so-to-say, this could make for one super cool fantasy realm! Like Junkertown in Overwatch lore, but entirely inhabited by crab folk who make their own suits of armor out of old machinery and food containers.
So this is how the crabs start evolving to become the hermit crab in Fallout’s Far Harbor, interesting...
Hello fellow fallout fan
Yup
I was thinking of the hermits from F4 too lol
gamur2 lmao I was thinking Fallout as well
I never knew this. I definitely won't pick up shells anymore!
Hermit crabs aren't fecking everywhere, it's okay to pick em up almost everywhere pussy
This episode took a shot in Thailand. National park staff always contribute abandoned shell to beach forest vicinity until the night the land hermit crabs leave their shelters to feed and seek new mobilized home.
In the past this hermir crabs are commonly found many parts of island in the southern Thailand. At the present their population plummet because they lost of habitat from hotel or resorts rennovation, trapping to be pet and their favourite shells disappear.
That soft voice raised a circus tent near my home.