April 13, 2006

Christmas Island Crabs This short video (~3 mins) shows the migration of the Christmas Island Red Crabs, as they cross the island to . . umm. . spawn. Or have beaucoups de bebes or something. Fascinating footage for those of us on the topside of Ye Olde Earf, but not for the kabourophobic. Question: What is wrong with this picture?

*Warning: Spoiler below* Did you say "golf courses"? If so, correct! "cars", "automobiles", or "humans" will also be accepted.

posted by petebest 18 years ago
  • via growabrain.
  • Wait a minute while I melt a barrel of butter.
  • un-: Way to crack me up! Pete!! What gives? My af.mil server denied me access due to porn! Is this pictures of you with your pants off? Ewwwwwww...Pete has crabs.
  • Christmas Island Crabs! I think I have a shampoo for that.
  • Here's another link to the same video, on the original host I think. It may be blocked because it's a "YouTube" type of thing where god-knows-what might show up. But this is definitely SFW. And no way do I have these crabs.
  • You people obviously aren't watching the video. /pouts
  • i'll try to when i get home. promise.
  • The announcer guy has a goofy voice. And the music is high-larious. Surprised it wasn't baby elephant walk or something by Spike Jones.
  • seafood...! petebest... I'm sending you a bill for the crab dinner I must now go purchase....
  • I watched it. I marveled at the 100k babies per mother fact... And then the locals scooping up buckets-full of them... Crazy! And, I think I remember seeing this video years ago.
  • (((! Great video - I'll never feel quite so horrified by a few earwigs again. Gummint here dint like the first link, neither.
  • So . . . are those crabs edible? Seems like they'd have quite an industry there if so. Y'know, at least for a few years, until these were made extinct too. I was struck by how wrong a golf course was in the middle of this incredible migration. and yet amused that if a crab knocks the ball in, it counts.
  • Seems like they're not edible, alas, except to ants. The island has another claim to fame: Christmas Island has the top-level Internet DNS domain ".cx".
  • crabse.cx?
  • Interesting video. I'll call you from prison if they catch me for skinning the narrator alive and feeding him to whatever asshat wrote that moronic voiceover. Are tv audiences really that stupid now?
  • yes.
  • fish tick it is my dream to one day travel to Christmas Island and wander around asking everyone, "Do you have ANY IDEA what horror you have wreaked upon the internet; nay, upon the collective soul of humanity?" Really, I wonder if they know.
  • ha ha! true.
  • That was an awesome link. =)