A sandy behaviour
Posted on May 15, 2008 by seedsaside
Which animal tries to hide its head in the sand when facing a danger?
This one of course!
As far as I can tell, this is really efficient, for it took less than a dozen seconds. So not only does this crab have a somewhat cryptic livery with lovely barnacle companions, but it does engage into this very fast defence behaviour. Does it tell something about the time needed by potential predators (gulls I guess, since they are quite opportunistic feeders) to come by the crab spot they just noticed?
Do I really look like a seagull? I don’t even look like a see guy!
Almost related posts (with animated gifs):
Vote for the one you prefer! ;-)
Filed under: Animals, English, Uncategorized
and you didn’t take pictures like that from your cow run ? but why ?
Serioulsly : beautiful series, good job. The crab is probably the one I prefer.
What about Distoleon tetragrammicus ?
You mean I look like this?
no I mean, that the larvae is in the sand and it could be funny to photography it