{"id":514,"date":"2012-09-11T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/the-wonderful-horror-of-hermit-crabs-migrating\/"},"modified":"2012-09-11T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T20:37:00","slug":"the-wonderful-horror-of-hermit-crabs-migrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/the-wonderful-horror-of-hermit-crabs-migrating\/","title":{"rendered":"The wonderful horror of hermit crabs migrating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/sWXSUX8MMOo\/the-wonderful-horror-of-hermit.html\">The wonderful horror of hermit crabs migrating<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>The hills are alive with the sound of scuttling.<\/p>\n<p>This video has popped up on lots of sites already, but I kind of love it and wanted to post here. Plus, it made me curious. Where are all those crabs going? And why?<\/p>\n<p>The answers, upon reflection, are rather obvious. They are going to the sea. They are going there to get laid.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s hermit crab spring break\u2014set to an epic classical soundtrack\u2014as thousands upon thousands of land-dwelling crabs travel to the ocean to meet other crabs and have sex with them.<\/p>\n<p>Wondrous, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ht5MAvQOlC0C&#038;lpg=PT53&#038;ots=H5ZxL-6AZT&#038;dq=land%20hermit%20crabs%20mating%20migration&#038;pg=PT53#v=onepage&#038;q=land%20hermit%20crabs%20mating%20migration&#038;f=false\">Hermit crab mating habits<\/a> from the book <em>Hermit Crabs<\/em>, by Sue Fox<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uprm.academia.edu\/AngelNieves\/Papers\/575744\/Annual_migrations_and_spawning_of_Coenobita_clypeatus_Herbst_on_Mona_Island_Puerto_Rico_and_notes_on_inland_crustaceans\">Annual migrations and spawning of the common land hermit crab<\/a>; a research paper documenting this phenomenon as it happens in Puerto Rico. Crab love looks much the same all over the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=9ecb0f3e4cd61baa7f38936483bf17bf&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=9ecb0f3e4cd61baa7f38936483bf17bf&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/sWXSUX8MMOo\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wonderful horror of hermit crabs migrating: The hills are alive with the sound of scuttling. This video has popped up on lots of sites already, but I kind of love it and wanted to post here. Plus, it made me curious. Where are all those crabs going? And why? The answers, upon reflection, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-8i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}