Originally published at: Millions of migrating crabs trigger road closures | Boing Boing
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Crabs on the roadways in Cayman are a common cause of car accidents (slippery buggers). The feral cats are all smiling though.
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The young crabs never believe the stories passed down about what the migration was like before the hairless apes showed up and built roads
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Not quite a reboing - but there’s this…
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They need to put in a bunch of culverts under the road
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Why, when they can just do what they’re doing here, which is shut down the roads?
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Ah, the NYPost:
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So they like… just see a story and sit around discussing how they can make it into a nightmare scenario?
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That’s pretty awesome!
Not the only “wildlife” bridge in the world, either…
But given the volume, there probably still might be a need to shut down traffic for this.
This one is amazing!
A turtle tunnel under train tracks in Japan.
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Turtle Tunnel!
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Some trivial research shows that they are technically edible, but watery with low amounts of accessible meat and tough shells, but I suspect most of the “inedible” label is to avoid having the tourists eat them all. Most seafood isn’t particularly flavorful, and so serves as a substrate for the butter, salt, seasonings, and sauces which make them so tasty after all. I saw one mention of internal organ toxicity due to diet (they are scavengers and eat rotting things, after all), but sound overall safer than, say, fugu ,or shellfish in a red-tide zone, yet both of those are routinely served after appropriate purging and preparation.
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I was thinking just that given how dangerous wet leaves can be in the Oakland hills.
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There was an episode of Spy in the Wild that had these crabs, and their spy crab(!) was creepin’ along with the rest giving a nice eye-level view and getting hit on.
Preview at .22; full episode may be for PBS paying customers.
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Too many crabs in too many places.
Calling @wazroth do we need a bingo card for this as per the bridge? 
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“Crabs have to drive right up to the crossing to turn onto Peaboy.”
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