A Crab Survived for Months Inside a Plastic Bottle Drifting in the Ocean by Eating Fish That Swam In
Researchers say the crab entered as a juvenile and grew inside the bottle for about two months, feeding on fish and algae before it could not escape.
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Plato's Allegory Of The Crab
Sometime in the late spring or early summer of 2022, a baby three-spot swimming crab was drifting in the open ocean, as baby crabs often do. The crab came across a white plastic bottle that once held Shaoxing wine—a fact both incomprehensible and immaterial to the crab—and went inside. This decision, if it was in fact a choice or rather the result of a chance oceanic current, offered some obvious benefits to the baby crab. A plastic bottle offer…
A Crab Survived Two Months at Sea in a Bottle That Should've Been Too Small. This Study Explains How.
According to a new study published in Ecosphere, scientists off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, found a cute little fully-grown crab inside a floating plastic bottle. The crab seemingly swam inside the bottle when it was young, and grew until it couldn’t escape its little plastic prison. It was a bit like a ship in a bottle: an impossibly big thing inside of an object with a small opening. The mouth measured just 24 millimeters across. The crab its…
Japan marine mystery solved: A crab lived in a plastic bottle until it grew too large to escape
A crab found off Okinawa, Japan, posed an odd marine puzzle, as the crustacean was found inside a plastic bottle even though the opening was too small for its body. Researchers concluded it had spent weeks inside the bottle and ultimately grew too large to get out. What happened? The animal was recovered from a drifting Shaoxing wine bottle made of high-density polyethylene off Okinawa. Researchers from Hiroshima University spotted the bottle ab…
The crab is estimated to have lived for two months inside a discarded bottle floating in the Pacific. The post The case of the crab that grew up trapped in a plastic bottle appeared first on in.gr.
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