Comments on: Suicidal Crab…

By: sasha

sasha — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:40:28 +0000

that is a terrestrial crab so it don’t know how to swim

poor crab….

By: jr peralejo

jr peralejo — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:56:46 +0000

we have crabs in our fishpond in bicol and i could say this is a male (or gay) sea crab because of its darker color (for sea) and not a lighter shade of brown to red (land crabs), the organ which is slightly longer (for males) compared with wider (for females), this one is in between that so i could say that this fellow might be gay.

By: wilde

wilde — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:11:23 +0000

Maybe Mr. Crab is looking for Spongebob :)

Damn so corny….

By: rita

rita — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:45:57 +0000

awwwh… poor thing. life’s too rough so he jumped in?

By: meh

meh — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:48:09 +0000

MM, I agree with other commenters that this must be a land crab, genus Cardisoma or possibly Discoplax, I can’t tell for sure. Land crabs live in burrows surprisingly far inland. My guess as to the reason why this guy ‘committed seppuku’ is because your house and pool happen to be built over its natural habitat. Simple as that. It was wandering around at night minding its own business (land crabs tend to be nocturnal), came across your pool, thought it could navigate it easily, then (as you mention) found itself trapped by the vertical walls and drowned. Solution to prevent more crab deaths? Perhaps you could place a cover over the pool when it’s not in use, or come up with some sort of device (a netting/rope ladder??) that would allow trapped animals to climb out of the tiled pool…

By: bagito

bagito — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:46:49 +0000

Ay, ‘wawa naman the crab. : (

By: Liza

Liza — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:06:48 +0000

Mr. Crab must have thought that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence :D

By: Biy

Biy — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:37:29 +0000

so much fun reading on this blog and postings , cant permanently back-off…

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:09:41 +0000

meg, don’t always judge a book by its apparent cover. The pool is made of natural rough Indonesian green stone tiles, and the grouting starts off green/grey on purpose to complement the stone. Not all pools have white tiles and white grout, like a 1960’s baÃ±o. As with almost all swimming pools, this one is chlorinated to the levels recommended by the pool companies who check it for ph level. However, being out in the relative “wild,” the pool is definitely used less often and probably cleaned less often than say a swimming pool in a sports club that has inordinately high levels of chlorine and muriatic acid. I think the crab would more likely die of chlorine than of algae or “slime” in a body of water. :)

Actually, the likely answer is that once he decided to jump into the pool, there was no way out for him due to the 90 degree angled sides, so he drowned from exhaustion from swimming about with a lack of food and the chlorine poisoning…

dred, I think we have to watch the pyramid frenzy to its conclusion. If one crab does finally make it to the top and escapes from the bucket, does he stick around to pull the others out? I suspect not. Therefore, everyone helps to get one crab out of the bind, or as many escape as the pyramid can support, but the rest of the crabs are left behind while the escapees head off to lalaland… the survival instinct is perhaps a more PC term for “crab mentality”… I once watched a TV program that outlined who was most likely to survive a plane crash on land or sea where passengers had just seconds to get out of the fuselage before they died of smoke inhalation or other causes.. was it the polite folks who allowed elderly and children out first and who formed patient lines… or was it the crazed “I want to live at all costs” maniacs who bullied their way to the doors and safety — climbing over chairs, not using the aisles, pushing their way out as quickly as possible? It was the latter. Survival instinct.

By: satomi

satomi — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:15:38 +0000

Yeah, I agree with them. I think it’s a land crab. link https://www.stjohnbeachguide.com/Land%20Crab.htm