Hermit Crab Migration... Nanny Point
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:56 am
Video by Steve Simonsen!!!
http://vimeo.com/48466065
The Hermit crab is predominantly a land creature, but it still has close ties to water and the sea. In fact it can never be entirely away from water, and solves this problem by always carrying a supply of water in its shell. Moreover, the hermit crab returns to the sea in order to reproduce. At certain times of the year hundreds of these creatures scramble and tumble down the mountainsides and make their way to the seashore where the females crawl to the water's edge. They then cast their fertilized eggs in the sea where the newly born hermit crabs spend their next few months before returning to land.
From http://www.seestjohn.com/fauna_hermit_crab.html
For more about this hermit crab migration http://www.stjohnhistoricalsociety.org/ ... r-Crab.htm
Last edit... I think!
http://vimeo.com/48466065
The Hermit crab is predominantly a land creature, but it still has close ties to water and the sea. In fact it can never be entirely away from water, and solves this problem by always carrying a supply of water in its shell. Moreover, the hermit crab returns to the sea in order to reproduce. At certain times of the year hundreds of these creatures scramble and tumble down the mountainsides and make their way to the seashore where the females crawl to the water's edge. They then cast their fertilized eggs in the sea where the newly born hermit crabs spend their next few months before returning to land.
From http://www.seestjohn.com/fauna_hermit_crab.html
For more about this hermit crab migration http://www.stjohnhistoricalsociety.org/ ... r-Crab.htm
Last edit... I think!
