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01-23-2012, 12:12 AM
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Jan 23, 2012: Crab Balls
Put away the seafood sauce, you don't want to eat these crab balls.
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 Then the tide comes in and they start all over again.  Makes me wonder if some will evolve enough to dig above the high water mark, but maybe the sand's not wet enough to dig. The Ark in Space via Kuriositas
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01-23-2012, 12:33 AM
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Doctor Wtf
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I've seen little fellers like that in mud flats in far north Queensland.
It isn't clear in this pic, but the ones I saw arranged their balls (ahem) so as to leave unobstucted paths back to their holes, so they could bolt to safety quickly.
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01-23-2012, 12:45 AM
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There are heaps of soldier crabs around here. They are very interesting watch.
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01-23-2012, 05:31 AM
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Screwy eyes!
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01-23-2012, 05:46 AM
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Cool!
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01-26-2012, 10:33 AM
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I wonder . . .
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01-27-2012, 01:38 PM
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01-23-2012, 06:11 AM
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We have them all over the beaches in Waratah Bay too (near Wilsons Prom in Victoria). They're mostly tiny, but their crab balls make fabulous patterns all over the beach.
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01-23-2012, 08:03 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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How do you get their legs apart?
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01-23-2012, 08:19 AM
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These pictures made me think of the similarities with mine tailings, so I did a Google image search to find a picture that would show off those similarities. Don't do Google image searches for mine tailings. It's too depressing.
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01-23-2012, 06:09 PM
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01-23-2012, 11:21 PM
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Crab Ejecta but Sand Dollars better!
Got to see crab ball ejects in Mexico and Malaysia. Same random thrown pattern, sometimes with access paths. But on Cherating Beach (Malaysia's East coast) there were hairy sand dollars that cruised just below the wet sand, forming abstract patters and looking weird.
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01-23-2012, 11:26 PM
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The future is unwritten
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They cruise under the sand? Cool, I'd like to see pictures of that if you have some, dave74. Oh, and welcome.
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01-23-2012, 10:00 AM
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Do soldier crabs have guns? Or weapons?
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01-23-2012, 11:29 AM
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The claws don't impress you?
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