Crab

salty water, I could already feel the cold water on my toes. I was so excited! I hopped into my clothes and threw down my perfect pancakes. Driving up I asked everyone one by one, “ How many crabs do you think we are going to catch?” I thought back to when we went last year and we caught twenty-seven crabs, I hoped we would beat that this time! On the way up I wiggled my tooth like a puppy’s tail when their owner comes home after a long day. Meanwhile my brother’s fought like cats and dogs in…

Tom’s the Fiddler Crab Catcher One late afternoon as I look out from a large window where I work, I saw this raggedy white van pulling into the parking lot, as It park towards the north side of the lot I noticed the AC unit protruding from the back door. I changed my attention as a customer came in, I greet him and as usual with his nasty attitude Newport’s one hundred, a blue game and the rest on pump 5. He swayed the bundle up twenty- dollar bill on the counter, rotated around and walk away…

Hairy Chested Yeti Crab The hairy chested yeti crab and sometimes known as the Hoff crab after David Hasselhoff, Kiwa tyleri, (Bittel) belong to a group called squat crabs are extraordinary creatures for different reasons. Some including their outer appearance and the way they live in the climates where most other crabs or lobsters couldn’t survive. The white hair body and the spikes on its legs have been due to it adapting to its habitat and climate. (Palermo) Its living conditions are very…

deep-part of the ocean and what is hiding benit there.Most of the people don't know what is down there, specially what creatures live and how they survive to the extreme environment that is the deep-sea.The Giant Squid , Zombie Worms,Jellyfish and Yeti Crabs are some of the ”deep-sea creatures ,“ or, in other words they are the “survivors of the deep-sea, “ since they everyday survive to the low temperatures, the darkness and the hard way of getting food.This creatures…

When you live in such a harsh and remote place, it is difficult to find the wonder and beauty around you. This is true until the snow starts to melt and you experience the two month stretch of warmth that all Alaskans live for. Fluorescent purple and red blooms cover the gravel-spotted ground. Weeds are the first thing to bloom. Dark green crabgrass quickly follows. The mountains in the distance start to peak from the clouds as the first day comes around. The summers are short but the days are…

the host is always killed. Sacculina is a genus of parasitic rhizocephalan barnacles that infect and castrate crabs. This genus was first described by Italian marine biologist Felipe Cavolini in 1786 (Day, 1935). There are many species within the genus Sacculina , including Sacculina carcini. The species, Sacculina carcini is a high specialized parasite that infects and castrates crabs. The specific…

Big juicy shrimp, huge crabs, and smoky circular sausages all being mixed together in one big silver pot. All gumbo starts with a roux, but after the initial browning of the fat and flour other decisions are left to the cook. The rich smell of the roux coming from the kitchen makes my taste buds go delirious. Have you ever had a favorite food that made you want more and more of it because of all the spices that makes it so good? Gumbo is only one of my favorite foods that I could eat every day!…

condition of remaining areas. Additionally, it is increase the pressure on these systems as on the next few decades, development of many of the main urban and economic centers is expected to center on tropical estuaries In tropical estuaries, intertidal crabs are found abundant and diverse…

simulation, I was to act like a European green crab and select which snails from the population I wanted to eat by clicking on each snail. I was to eat snails until the population was at 25. Once I had eaten my meal, the crab was to go away for a while to allow the snails to reproduce in order to get the population back up to 50 snails. Once the crab came back, I then again selected 25 more crabs to eat from the population while managing to maintain my crab happiness score by eating snails with…

The Limulus polyphemus has a primitive blood. According to Bang & Levin (n.d.) the Atlantic horseshoe crab blood carries oxygen and has a special pigment that is a protein called hemocyanin. Homo sapien blood has a very similar protein in it called hemoglobin that makes the blood red from iron in the blood. Hemocynanin has copper molecules in it causing the Atlantic horseshoe crab to have blue blood. The hemocytes (blood cells) in the blue blood have a special clotting aspect. The hemocytes…