'The Porcelain Crab'

'The Porcelain Crab'
(Natural History Episode 20)

The porcelain crab's common name is derived from its propensity to drop claws like a fragile tea cup breaking. When attacked, the would-be predator is usually left with nothing more than a few amputated (and still-twitching) limbs. In a few days the porcelain crab will undergo an 'emergency molt' of its exoskeleton and begin regenerating its lost appendages.

Music, Video, and Aquarium
MORPHOLOGIC STUDIOS
2010

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Science & Technology

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• Coral Morphologic
• Morphologic Studios
• Aquarium
• Coral
• Porcelain Crab
• Reef