Wednesday 8 June 2011

I saw a crab!!!

For those of you who do not have my facebook, or did see this particular picture that I have uploaded, the picture below here is a Fiddler crab. The name fiddle crab is apprarently given to it because it potrays a look of a crab that is fiddling.
I originally took this photo because I thought it was a handicap crab with only one claw. However, much to my limited knowledge, I was corrected by my friends who told me that the crab was not handicapped and it in fact did have 2 asynmmetric claws: one big and one small. The smaller claw is used to pick up food and bring it to the mouth whereas the larger claw are used in combat of courtship over females by male crabs. A rather interesting story from a funny looking crab photo that I took at a seafood restaurant, at Padang Pasir.

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