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They also duke it out if two crabs want the same shell. I recall one video where two crabs were goin round the outside when a third one just moves into the shell. Hilarious at scale, but I bet the first two were pissed. Good thing they weren’t pistol shrimp.
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but tHiNk Of AlL tHe LoSt ShArEhOlDeR vAlUe ThO!?
Seriously though, if crabs used currency this would never happen. There would be one crab with all the shells and the other crabs would have to bring food offerings or whatever their currency would be in order to get one.
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Surprisingly they don’t have that much of the market.
I counted the word “institutional” used almost once per sentence. There were a couple of sentences that didn’t use it, but there was at least one sentence that used it twice. Plus all the figures and captions for them too.
Though despite being not “institutional”, the market seems to have behaved a little as if it were, due to use of software to fix prices at what the landlords believed that the market would bear. So still price gouging, regardless of whether done by individuals or giant mega-corporations.
Though still a good point that the article makes.
socialist crabs.
In Australia we lose about six months wages to ‘stamp duty’ if we move. Better to stick with the oversized shell.
I wonder how they communicate. There must be a signal that says, “I’m moving out. Line up!”
Iirc there can be a mad scramble. If two try for the same shell, one loses out and their previous shell may be taken. So they’re fucked.
Got to witness crabs doing this when going for a walk one day. There was a very shallow pool on the beach, about a foot wide, and about 20 crabs having a ‘swap meet’, scurrying back and fourth between the different shells.
It’s pretty sweet ngl.
Humans could have this too if enough of us just started doing it
Just build more housing lol.
I think I’d be more like swapping different sized body armor, but I feel the sentiment;)
