Islands swarming with tens of millions of red crabs. Yellow crazy ants. Vicious arthropod battles for dominance. Cats are freakin’ boring.
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scooterKPFT
10 September 2011 at 9:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
To Ceiling Crustacean, can I haz gumbo?
tideliar
10 September 2011 at 9:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
And there’s me thinking my commute was a pain in the ass. Amazing.
Glen Davidson
10 September 2011 at 9:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Damn Designer forgot to fix reproduction for the land crabs.
But why think when you can just copy evolution? Because apparently we were Designed, only life somewhere else evolved and the lazy-ass Designer just redid that evolution over billions of years.
Only sense I can make of ID, anyhow.
Oh, and cat fights really aren’t boring, especially when it’s lions.
Glen Davidson
chigau ()
10 September 2011 at 9:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
“… they restore their bodies with salts and moisture …”
pop-up ad
“Chinese Lady for Dating”
I ♥ the interwebs.
ibyea
10 September 2011 at 9:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Say, does anyone know why crabs foam at their mouth? I have wondered that since my parents expanded their business to include selling crabs.
Trebuchet
10 September 2011 at 10:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I got the “Chinese lady for dating” ad too. Creepy. Almost as creepy as the ants.
I noticed the crabs moved forward, instead of scuttling sideways as I expected. Another evolutionary adaptation?
Kimberly Hosey (Arizona Writer)
10 September 2011 at 10:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
A new level, the anti-anti-Caturday: http://skepchick.org/2011/09/anti-pz-caturday-post/#comment-133208
llewelly
10 September 2011 at 11:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
A cat would down in scorn upon creatures that migrated in herds.
theophontes, feu d'artifice du cosmopolitisme
11 September 2011 at 12:28 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
In support of teh kittehz:
Medal of Honor Cat
Show me an arthropod/cephalopod that can rise to this level of raw courage!
(I see they spelled teh kittehz name wrong… there is no second “m”.)
…………………
@ lewelly
Wrong.
zackoz
11 September 2011 at 3:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
What a weird video! That can’t be all of it?
There must surely be more – would the viewer not be curious about what happens next to the crabs?
And why not say where it is? I believe it may be the Indian Ocean island of Cocos, which is a part of Australia.
We weren’t satisfied with polluting the poor mainland with feral pigs, dogs, cats, buffalo, goats, camels, foxes, cane toads, humans, etc, we had to make sure the outlying islands received some introduced pests as well.
AussieMike
11 September 2011 at 3:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It’s Christmas Island.
http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/publications/christmas/red-crabs.html
Here is the Google Map Link.
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Christmas+Island&hl=en&ll=-10.506379,105.67749&spn=0.268703,0.445976&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=38.161973,47.373047&oe=UTF-8&geocode=FbD_X_8dU8dLBg&t=m&z=12&vpsrc=6
A3Kr0n
11 September 2011 at 5:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Chinese dating ad? How come I don’t get all these cool ads people talk about?
Cats are boring? Obviously you’ve never played tennis with a cat, eh?
lofty
11 September 2011 at 6:40 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Millions of marauding crabs eh? I think I’ll stick to my kitties for domestic entertainment, thanks :-)
AussieMike
11 September 2011 at 7:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Cats…. The ‘other’ white meat!
'Tis Himself, pour encourager les autres
11 September 2011 at 7:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Cats are herded.
Sili
11 September 2011 at 4:35 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
“Crazy ants”?
That’s not very nice. I’m sure the formids prefer ‘differently abled’.
Cats are red meat, idiot.
Melody
11 September 2011 at 11:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Never met a cat I liked.
Birger Johansson
12 September 2011 at 6:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I think it is Christmas island.
To combat the invasive ant species before ther crabs go extinct, I hereby suggest we design self-reproducing nanites that attack anything that looks like an ant. What if the program gets corrupted? ….Naaah! Technology will not misfire.
Long Gertel
28 November 2011 at 9:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
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