Current mood:	sporfle!
Entry tags:	animals

Hermit crabs, even more interesting when transparent.
Over on wtf_nature on LJ, someone posts a picture of a hermit crab in a transparent shell. It's kind of cool and freaky all at once.

electricube is bothered by this. Very bothered. Se proceeds to wank about animal rights, toxic poison, and what bettas really need for an environment. In great and astonishing length.

But wait, there's more! Bettas are awesome and you can teach them how to read. Watch as sarcasm completely escapes this girl, and then her boyfriend leaps in to defend her!

At least read that last link. It is fucking beautiful. Edit: There's a NSFW link in one of those threads I didn't follow to the end.

Thanks so much to the anonymouse over on wank_report who tipped me off to all the crazy.

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aerobot
2008-05-24 04:28 pm UTC (link)

I doubt you will grasp the concept, because you found it amusing when a human threatened to kill animals in an attempt to exert control over other humans (rather like a hostage situation).

"STOP SPREADING YOUR PETA-CRAZY ACROSS THIS BOARD OR THE HERMIT CRAB GETS IT!!!!" *places a tiny little gun to the hermit crab's head*

(Also, that plastic shell is AWESOME. I always wondered what they looked like inside! Now they just need a snail with a clear shell.)

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	napalmnacey 2008-05-29 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	No. That's gross. I remember seeing a snail floating in my neighbour's fish pond (while I was over there playing with her dog) and I went to fish it out and save it. The whole fleshy bit just slipped out and floated in the water, the shell in my hand. It was GROSS. I tried not to puke. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	aerobot 2008-05-30 08:19 am UTC (link)
	Oooh, ew. I can understand the gross if you were TOUCHING it. D: (Reply to this)(Parent)

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