The animal that (sometimes) survives becoming dinner

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1978 aquarium study that found lots of declawed grabs die of their wounds: ufdcimages.ufli...
2016 in situ study that found the same thing: www.researchga...
Study that found declawed stone crabs have trouble eating and (potentially) reproducing: www.sciencedir...
Study that found 3% of declawed crabs returned to the fishery with regrown claws of legally harvestable size (not free): www.sciencedir...
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission video on how to properly harvest stone crab claws: • How to Harvest a Stone...
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission article on stone crabs, showing the diaphragm that seals wounds left by autotomy: myfwc.com/rese...

[@ArgentAbendAzure]

Customer: "Do you serve crabs here?" Waiter: "We serve anyone, have a seat."

[@VonArchive510]

@Noone Cares no one cares

[@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12]

@@VonArchive510 thats his name

[@VonArchive510]

@@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12 you’re damn right 😎👍

[@ianwhite7583]

Waitress: Only if you buy me dinner ;)

[@congratulationsmerry6386]

dad joke lmao

[@KelvinNishikawa]

I spent the first minute of this video thinking: "Oh no, Adam has a tapeworm."

[@mariarohmer2374]

That's what I thought when I saw the title. I still can't watch bc something about a poor crab. I can't.

[@AndresMartinez-ep5tt]

Expecting tapeworm dish in Wednesday

[@CreativityCurve]

He absolutely would make a video about it if he did have one though

[@yesyes2543]

@Major Problems funny

[@williamlazenby314]

Same, lol

[@batt3ryac1d]

Man I was thinking he meant an animal that could theoretically be crapped out and live lol

[@alexricky87]

I was thinking the same thing lol

[@U.Inferno]

Probably a deliberate bait and switch

[@tfernandes113]

Tapeworms have entered the chat.

[@TheSlavChef]

Yep, tapeworms were my thoughts too!

[@wembleyford]

Yeah, I was thinking tardigrades, but tapeworms too.

[@motivateddad]

As a living, breathing stone crab, I can confirm that our offices don't run efficiently because we can never get all hands on deck.

[@kitcutting]

this was the only registered crab-related dad joke that we wanted, but did not deserve.

[@ninosegers]

Do stone crabs 'breath'? Since it's hard to find any air in the ocean and all

[@motivateddad]

@@ninosegers We crabs have gills like all the other sea denizens in the other departments, so can breathe as long as we have water, or even just moisture. But we have been asking HR for an air conditioner for several months now.

[@shiki7689]

@Motivated Dad Name checks out. Here's your thumbs..... i mean claws up....or loss, I don't know...How many u got now?

[@motivateddad]

@@shiki7689 That's nice of you. Your kindness is disarming. Not that that matters since I have none at the moment.

[@hendrixinfinity3992]

Imagine being a crab and this strong sailor type holds you in his big hands, you think you just made a friend and, nope, he rips your fucking arm off and throws you back in. Trust issues must be rampant among the stone crabs

[@marianocolsin8968]

Man now you make want to be c "friend" with a strong sailor and be held is his hands

[@henriqueribeiro8167]

That is why they dont reproduce.

[@doby8544]

I mean but this is a bit different since they can regenerate their limbs. This is more like if someone just cuts your hair off by force.

[@axolotlinabucket1287]

@@doby8544 even if you could re-grew limbs the pain would be the same

[@doby8544]

@@axolotlinabucket1287 I mean I guess, I still doubt that cuz they're claws and as shown in the video they literally just snapped in half quite easily, but even if the pain was the same, the shock would be much less knowing rhat it isn't permanent damage.

[@GarlicButterLightbulb]

Crabs can choose to actively throw off limbs when stressed. I propose we replace breaking off their arms with a Monster's Inc-esque scare program that catches crabs and then spooks them into giving up their claws.

[@lilyliao9521]

i bet theres a study that tries this

[@Leo..........ig.]

@@lilyliao9521 i dont think there is, but there should be one

[@MCXL1140]

@@Leo..........ig. sigh, time to get my doctorate I guess.

[@pauldeddens5349]

Make a scarecrab and dunk them into the water, and wait for the arms to float to the surface.

[@breather8758]

Makes sense, they do choose to lose their limb this way lol

[@linkbro4374]

a human straight up asking any crabs that might be watching if they want to lose their limb or their life is the most brutal unintentional threat i've ever heard

[@B_4035mn]

Who said it was unintentional? Drop 'em.

[@paulkossik]

You must not be involved with an HOA or PTA

[@LaughingJokerProd]

I can bring you in clawless... Or I can bring you in whole

[@nitramreniar]

@@LaughingJokerProd "You either get back home with no claws, or you don't get home at all"

[@Pierce-zp5dr]

as a crab i would rather keep my life

[@ErwinPommel]

It's fascinating how many of Adam's viewers are crabs. His demographics are wild.

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

This immediately reminds me of a video where a crab, confronted by a mantis shrimp, removed his own arm and handed it over it to the mantis shrimp, who accepted the gift and allowed the crab to live.

[@mikec518]

I thought of the same video when it got to the part about detachable arms lol

[@iantyles]

Link please. That sounds wildly entertaining

[@gasun1274]

even if youre a crab you cant escape taxes smh

[@dr4gonbl4z3r]

link please!

[@vinegarlegate24]

Link?

[@jordandelosreyes5656]

“If you’re a crab, let us know in the comments what you prefer?” Adam knows too much

[@MurcuryEntertainment]

**sweats in crab**

[@TheMrCazano]

Crab People, look like crab, talk like people

[@tokuyou3811]

we go to crab raves for fun

[@marshens]

@@TheMrCazano was literally watching that episode yesterday 😂

[@shackleDev]

not a crab, but a fisherman. i prefer the lowest joint of the claw since you get the most meat

[@LevelsOTT]

"If you're a shark in the surf I don't want anything to do with you..." I knew immediately

[@thekell]

10/10 transition

[@idiotsandwich7528]

loan sharks: Oh damn it!

[@TacticalSatsuma]

I'm ashamed to say my tired brain didn't pick up until the logo appeared on the screen

[@bluealize1]

My spidey senses started to tingle

[@xyex]

His transitions are the best.

[@TheSlavChef]

First the mushrooms, after that the pigeons, now the crabs. Expect crab recipe on Thursday!

[@sovietdoggo6735]

bau

[@aleksanderaleksandrov1016]

incoming!

[@thatpengman]

the thing is, whats next

[@dantediiorio7547]

@@thatpengman penguin is next

[@TheSlavChef]

@@thatpengman afraid and excited at the same time

[@SpoonOfDoom]

As a crab, I really miss my claw. Typing this comment with just one took *ages*

[@paddington1670]

Almost as long as my elderly father writing an email with 6 words.

[@stephaniesummer2663]

Hmm that profile pic look awfully like lobster

[@Qwerty-jc3so]

@@stephaniesummer2663 hmm, i didn't realize cats look like lobsters

[@aymanzaim9650]

@@stephaniesummer2663 that muffin is awfully looking like a hamster

[@YagizaSan]

@@aymanzaim9650 Guys, let's not discriminate, crabs can have cats too

[@theactualpc]

Hey Adam, I'm a stone crab from Florida, and I would like to let you know that my community of crabs prefer being declawed than being eaten. Thank you

[@eviebraud1307]

I was your 69th like your welcome

[@cheatlink11]

As a fellow stone crab I tend towards agreeance over this issue, however I do prefer being left to fend for myself as my life span is relatively short and I would like to live it to the fullest.

[@aceofquantumaoq5006]

That's funny cuz I'm a stone crab from Florida too and I'd rather not suffer and die because I literally fucking lost both my arms to satisfy some obese american's appetite

[@bipitybop_]

I am not a crab but I prefer being declawed too

[@kristhedepressedhuman9337]

Hi I just lose all my legs

[@eve_squared]

I myself am not a stone crab but my friend's husband was and when I asked they said they would prefer not to be harmed at all. Though they did agree that losing their limbs would be preferable to outright death.

[@bayanon7532]

I am not a stone crab, but I play one in Adam's video.

[@ConstantChaos1]

A witch turned me into a stone crab... I got better But yes removing a claw (not both) is better than dying

[@aaaaa359]

Yeah. There's no need to do this at a commercial scale. We should decrease large scale animal agriculture regardless.

[@elkaphant]

Adam: "D'you know what it is? I'll give you a second to think about it." *Shows silhouette* Me: A TOUCAN

[@miketacos9034]

IT’S PIKACHU!!!

[@altoclef4989]

@@miketacos9034 it's a crab!-- FUCK!

[@TruForte401]

😭

[@DeathBean89]

@@miketacos9034 it's obviously kingler

[@sggyd.795]

AN ELECTRODE SEEN FROM ABOVE

[@cumbrap]

Imagine some giant picks you up and rips your hair off and then leaves. 6 months later you're hair is back at a nice length and guess who's back for more hair. Fuck.

[@MrWookiecck]

Sounds like my barber

[@adudeontheinterweb6571]

i mean i was going to cut my hair anyways so if i can feed some giant that day, i will

[@wildcloud1476]

this actually happens though. People do get their hair stolen a lot.

[@iciclepops]

@@MrWookiecck underrated reply

[@thefolder69]

Except for the hair is one of only two extremely important appendages that you have, and the hair had muscles and fibers and connective tissues and ripping it out most likely feels almost unimaginably painful (because most recent research supports that crabs likely feel pain).

[@TheoJay615]

"Why I eat the claws and not the crabs" This time, it actually makes sense!

[@ganaraminukshuk0]

Cooking cookware also makes sense if you're talking about clay cooking pots. Seasoning cookware also makes sense if it's cast iron.

[@adnan7698]

@@ganaraminukshuk0 The origin is the cutting board video dude

[@ganaraminukshuk0]

@@adnan7698 and that meme makes sense on cookware

[@JesusRodriguez-rs8jq]

@@adnan7698 it always made sense. Y'all just want a dead meme to survive

[@Orincaby]

@@JesusRodriguez-rs8jq beating a dead horse ten times over is fun though

[@God-yb2cg]

I'm a crab, my great grandfather lost a limb to a human crab fisher, while he spent most his his youth trying to grow his arm back he still managed to build a family despise being rejected and laughed at by crab society.

[@Ann3M4r13]

Epic response

[@michaelmcleary8566]

I should imagine your grandfather's sex life was ruined too!

[@CoalDiamondandhisawesomeness]

Honestly this is Adam's smoothest sponsor transition in a long time

[@brandondabreo421]

I actually gave it a watch because of how impressed I was 😂

[@MultiAlex426]

haha i was looking for this comment. it was so smooth

[@namleist]

that brief ad on a sausage recipe is still unmatched

[@legendarylikebot8465]

I was so caught off guard. Lol. I agree, his previous ones were kinda lame compared to his first ones.

[@StrayFei]

read this comment right as the sponsor happened

[@sharkdavid]

My man Adam his some of the best promotional transition skills in the game 😂

[@tfernandes113]

Adam vs Linus. We need this battle... after a word from our sponsor 'Clash of Clans'

[@echtervogel]

Pure gold.

[@nottodaynint.nottoday2235]

this might be random but i love how your profile picture is just a pomegranate

[@MrNeosantana]

Companies must love him, because this creativity will actually make you enjoy the ad break

[@deadchannel294]

@@nottodaynint.nottoday2235 lol love it too

[@CHEVYCAMARO4GEN]

“What did you say Punk!” “Big meaty Claws!”

[@Cosmokevlar]

Well, this claws aint for just attracting mate!

[@paradoxxop2187]

While Patrick still asking "Is mayonnaise an instrument?"

[@albertyu750]

Wonder if over time, stonecrabs will evolve to have smaller and smaller claws to avoid being farmed/declawed...

[@Goblinhandler]

Probably not, the declawing doesn’t harm the survival of their species

[@qunas101]

@@Goblinhandler he is not talking about survival, he is talking about evolution/selection. If we specifically choose crabs with big claws that then have a less chance to survive, the crabs with smaller claws will be more abundant. This is definitely the case with some other creatures

[@michaelrondon5472]

Probably have them trending towards better survival after be declawed as well

[@Paul-bs5wl]

Potentially, but there's a few reasons it might not happen. 1) The regulation size is a politically enforced regulation and may not remain static or in place long enough to matter to the gene pool. 2) Human influences are competing against the selection pressures that caused the crab to have big claws in the first place (likely sexual selection of some kind?) 3) The regulation claw size is intentionally big enough that the crab is old enough by the time it can grow one to have gone through at least one spawning season, and given that big claws are likely to be sexually selected for, the big clawed crab was probably a winner in its one spawning season. 4) Other factors may release the selection pressure, as a fellow commenter said, greater survival/reproduction rates after amputation would allow big claw crabs to persist in the gene pool.

[@kentneumann5209]

Or... Bigger and bigger ones for the same reason by way of self defense. Much bigger.

[@joule400]

I mean if we just count "surviving becoming dinner" as in dont even need to be eaten whole then, almost anything can survive like this, im pretty sure some humans have survived being partially eaten by animals Heck stretch it enough and id say ive survived becoming a dinner for so many mosquitos

[@geraldfrost4710]

A parasite is a predictor that takes its prey in units of less than one. And, the animal does not survive being eaten, it survives loss of a limb.

[@ZerpDerp]

Mosquitoes don't eat blood, the females use it to make babies

[@pavementpounder7502]

I've eaten bits of skin off my fingers. Does that make me technically a cannibal?

[@lL338]

@@pavementpounder7502 Yes, you're an autocannibal! Maybe talk to a doctor if it's compulsive or becomes self destructive? I edited for clarity.

[@nikolaytekuchev136]

@@lL338 It's not that uncommon and biting skin or excess skin off your fingers isn't a big deal.

[@andysquared3901]

The SMOOTHEST ad transition I’ve ever seen. Just when I thought he couldn’t get any better at it

[@nihiladest8688]

Super smooth

[@ahmadzaimuddinafif9517]

Yesse even i amazed with the transition and narrations

[@basiliobastardo255]

now i'm getting comfortable surfin with shark

[@kamalmanzukie]

shut up

[@stix8371]

@@kamalmanzukie no u

[@jehutyzone1234]

Next video about apples: "The plant that survives becoming dinner"

[@FrowningWind213]

what

[@peika8324]

Technically is it’s off spring but sure

[@jasonslade6259]

@@peika8324 I mean its offspring are the seeds from the apple, not the fruit itself, and most people don't eat apple seeds (and you shouldn't do that, they're slightly toxic).

[@jelfishery]

on this topic, pineapples produce some kind of enzyme that basically eats you back

[@vaitianleandermarianayagam2299]

@@peika8324 the tree survives it’s apples being eaten

[@mr.zafner8295]

I wonder if there's been any research on forcing the crabs to voluntarily surrender their limbs. Like you can immobilize the claw, with say a rubber band or something, and the crab has the option of dropping it. And just keep it there until it drops away, preferably back into the ocean. I wonder if that would enhance their survivability

[@RyanTosh]

I doubt it. I wouldn't imagine they could do it any more safely than we could.

[@beansworth5694]

@@RyanTosh I don't know about that. There's less physical trauma involved possibly, since it's a situation of instinct taking over and their evolved mechanism working as intended as opposed to being forced to activate outside of its regular circumstances. This is a topic I'd also be interested to learn about, I'm gonna bookmark this video and see if there're any papers on it!

[@RyanTosh]

@@beansworth5694 Leave a comment if you find anything interesting, I'm also interested!

[@commenter4898]

"forcing the crabs to voluntarily..." you hear what you're saying?

[@karuki5791]

@@commenter4898 Yes, OP knows what they're saying, you can force a human to voluntarily escape their house if you light it on fire, it's voluntary because they had a choice to not do so, but there was practically no other choice so it's forced.

[@Seltaeb_]

Crab here. I'd honestly rather be able to pay my employees less. It's hurtin' me profit.

[@madhatte73]

underrated joke

[@hankrearden20]

I know right. It's costing you an arm and a leg

[@ethervagabond]

Well you know, if you didn't hire an immobile organism as your main cook, he'd probably be able to get a lot more done on what you pay him.

[@sus425]

@@hankrearden20 nice

[@zhenf6493]

you hardly pay them at all

[@miabussell0229]

This type of video truly shows why Adam is an absolute gift. The amount of journalistic talent to even ask a question like this seriously is honestly kind of shocking, but the humanity and scholarship he presents while talking about it is damn near unparalleled - especially the realm of FoodTube. Mr. Ragusea, you are an amazing educator and journalist!

[@Warmachine_23]

I can already imagine hearing "If you're a crab, fuck you" or something like that in a YTP.

[@AcanLord]

I could see this type of harvest having an interesting effect on the crabs evolution. if fishermen harvest the crabs with claws only above a certain size and then a significant portion of those crabs who have had claws removed then die than it seems possible that could result in a selection pressure to grow smaller claws.

[@drippnjimmy1033]

It’s an interesting concept because those crabs theoretically could have already produced offspring. I’d imagine for a crabs claws to get that big, they’d already have been old enough to reproduce. Isn’t that why deer hunters usually go after the older bucks?

[@thewerebear1]

This has been a thing in fishing and lakes that have done slot limits rather than the typical size limits have countered this.

[@Reon1312]

This is the most scilfully crafted video title ever, without being clickbait.

[@Fuchsia_tude]

No, I'd argue a title can be both completely true, non-misleading, and simultaneously clickbait.

[@pjoazure]

Certainly was clickbait until he changed the title

[@thewrongdrugs]

tf is a scil

[@Eclipsing_SUN]

@@thewrongdrugs probably skilfully or skillfully

[@thewrongdrugs]

@@Eclipsing_SUN ik it was a joke. -_-

[@acrab4282]

I would rather be dead than lose both of my claws

[@nerbs_the_word]

Thank you for your insight

[@mohamadalrashed9064]

The internet is fast and never disappoints

[@Silmerano]

What about just 1?

[@hiraya5296]

im very sorry, crab

[@guy-dev]

The account is 2 years old the fuck

[@Jagermonsta]

for the very briefest of moments, I actually wondered how one would eat and poop a whole living crab

[@boiledelephant]

Filled with regret, presumably.

[@Doppelrocking]

The detail in your videos is fantastic man. I don't know how you produce at this volume, assuming you've got a team of some sort, either way, always impressed with your videos and fun to have playing while I work to learn interesting things in the world of food!

[@astro4586]

That smooth ass transition to a ad actually made me laugh

[@princeemishi245]

Right? 😆

[@FauxReal.]

Squidswim vpn

[@27eatslotsofburgers]

an*

[@MisterMicrowaves]

Adam’s ad transitions are just too smooth, I have to watch them.

[@AxxLAfriku]

NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear mic

[@xiuzou4704]

@@AxxLAfriku who hurt u

[@TheSlavChef]

That one was pure gold

[@Hamox]

@@AxxLAfriku you are a fucking awesome troll.

[@lancinekeita4823]

Nah bro, I always skip, no matter what

[@thatoneguyamar]

Adam Ragusea, the king of sponsorship introduction

[@videofudge]

Yeah it was a pretty good one actually

[@phatboi813]

Shi was smooth af

[@willcoffarchives]

Cinema summary doe

[@googol181]

Idk man Linus tech tips is pretty good as well

[@notoriusdrifter40]

@@googol181 thats what I wanted to say, Linus is the best

[@SpyralStormTeacup]

If you're a "Good Omens" fan, this video adds so much like in-depth to the part where Aziraphale (character who is a heavenly angel) inquires Crowley of eating oysters... Crowley's the proposed demon character (fallen angel) who has never tried an oyster before, yet the angel Aziraphale has satiated experience sinfully having eaten a still-living animal! ;-p X-p

[@mohamedlafi4357]

Imagine being a crab without claws. Waiting years to regrow them, just to be caught again.

[@Vincent_Beers]

The new claw grows to a usable size in less than a year, not full size, but functional. It takes at least 3 years before it reaches a length that is legally harvestable. So assuming the fisherman is following the law, the crab would have a couple of years with a functional just not full-size claw before it could be harvested again.

[@goldilox369]

@@Vincent_Beers yeah, I get that. But can you imagine the BS you would feel if you were like " I spent three years growing that claw back!! Dammit!"

[@badmic8606]

"Ohh shit here we go again"

[@phillipmargrave]

It seems like a crab with no claws wouldn’t be able to survive at all

[@boulderbash19700209]

Why not domesticate it to produce line of crab breed that will shed its claws every 6 month or so?

[@jeice13]

I expected the wild mortality to be higher. Its impressive how well they adapt if they dont die immediately

[@bayanon7532]

Yeah, that dying thing screws up mortality ....

[@scrotymcboogerballs6756]

What surprised me the most was the small difference between the 1 claw mortality (40%) and 0 claw mortality (60%). I would think that a completely clawless crab was almost certainly doomed, but that is not the case

[@oskarngo9138]

How in hell does a “no claw” crab survive and feed itself if it has no hands to grab food and shove it into its mouth..??? Do normal crabs help feed injured crabs (like bats do)..?

[@scrotymcboogerballs6756]

@@oskarngo9138 Right? The only explanation I can cone up with is that it can survive without food longer than it takes to regrow a claw

[@reidprichard]

Many types of crabs filter feed using their mouth appendages. Perhaps that's the case?

[@beansworth5694]

I don't think it's as a result of social altruism. Crabs don't do that to my knowledge, although I could be wrong about that. However, crabs don't only eat other organisms or other things that need cracking; they filter feed the bottom of their habitat as well.

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

Crabs will eat debris out of the sand

[@ShawnCheah]

"It's a common misconception that declawing isn't painful, since crabs can naturally detach their own claws in response to stress or danger (this is known as natural autonomy). However, evidence shows this isn't the case when the claws are manually removed by a human."

[@cubicinfinity2]

Your saying we think it's less "painful" for a human to remove the claw than for them to remove it themselves, right?

[@ModMINI]

Mr Crab in the video didn't even flinch. My guess is they can't feel the pain.

[@roach6992]

@@ModMINI can u show me a crab flinching? Do u have a degree in crab body language? How was it supposed to flinch considering that its being held down and its body is rigid, it cant like move its head back it doesnt move. Also every single creature feels pain, the ones that dont feel pain walk into a fire and die because they dont feel pain and thus they don't reproduce and spread their dont feel pain genes...

[@TervelBG]

@@roach6992 "every single creature feels pain" . That is simply not true.

[@roach6992]

@@TervelBG lol k believe that to justify being a psycopath, u r arguing against 14 billion years of evolution , literally lowest iq take, do u believe in god or sonething?

[@christopherng5565]

whoo! I did a summer internship as a marine biologist at MOTE in Florida studying stone crabs--really warms my heart to see them get the spotlight. Also, did an undergraduate research paper on pain responses in crustaceans--tl dr; pain is a subjective experience, and they certainly don't experience acute psychological distress the way mammals do, but they show enough signs of pain response for us to lean on the safe side and do our best to humanely dispatch them (like, for example, NOT steaming them alive). Adam, what an awesome and thoroughly well-researched video as usual, thank you!

[@bastianena]

Unless you're part crab, you don't know for certain what kinda pain they experience. Humane is the wrong adjective to describe what humans do to ocean life or to any sentient life they consume. If you really want to be on the safe side, dispatch vegetables.

[@hunszaszist]

@@bastianena How do you know if vegetables don't experience pain? Maybe they have access to higher dimensions where they scream in agony as you tear their hard-grown food reserves off their butt, and weep for the millions of seeds who will no longer get a chance to germinate and live. YOU MONSTER!!

[@bastianena]

@@hunszaszist How do I know? Well, I dropped LSD one time and the salad I was about to consume spoke to me. I was taken to this higher dimension that you speak of and instead of hearing screams of agony, I heard sweet songs of rejoicing. You see, the veggies were happy to sacrifice their bodies to strengthen humans, unlike the rotting corpses of sentient animals that weaken them. They said, "Eat us, and be virile; eat them, and be flaccid." They also warned me about this human vegetable named Ardusk, who was exiled from the plant kingdom for spreading lies about their purpose. They said he'd be pardoned when he opened his heart and saw the error of his ways. But until then, he'd be labeled as "Tater Dick". When I returned from this fantastic trip, I looked at my salad and began humming "Hallelujah" as I ate it.

[@YoursUntruly]

@@bastianena you’re insane Bro. Keep doing your acid.. Natural selection at its finest. Although with your acid brain, don’t try to use your hallucinations as fact.. LOL just stick to your acid and don’t tell people what to do.

[@devinm.6149]

Don't do drugs kids

[@MrMccarthycdxx]

As a crab I just want to thank you for bringing awareness to this, also... eat lobster.

[@griffithwes0074]

Lobter.

[@gojigoomba1619]

LOBTA

[@GengUpinIpin]

Lob

[@thoriqzulkarnain4114]

Loster

[@treint6751]

L

[@trevorelvis1355]

That is so brutal...Breaking off the claws while the crab just looks thinking whatever crabs think...

[@annarboriter]

It sounds as though stone crabs lend themselves to aquaculture: either as temporarily protected crabs to allow them to regrow before being returned to the wild or to artificially propagate their numbers in enclosures or in the wild since quite clearly their market value allows for it.

[@boulderbash19700209]

Or breed a line that can shed its claws every 6 month without any harm.

[@JETZcorp]

Aquaculture in general is just a good idea in terms of the economics of conservation. Wild harvest leads to endangerment, as the only incentive is to "go get" as much as possible. Agriculture and aquaculture create the incentive to make more. It's why tuna are endangered and chickens are REALLY not.

[@currently_In_stealth_behind_u]

if it was that easy people would have done it by now

[@bartelvandervelden9894]

@@currently_In_stealth_behind_u it's something that requires a bit of regulations from a third party, otherwise it's just a competitive disadvantage for the companies doing it, since the companies that don't invest in it also benefit from it

[@nyalan8385]

I firmly believe the "blue revolution" is just around the corner (do not ask me how far away the corner is, everything is suggestive)

[@pranavmahesh8940]

Chipotle: The animal that (sometimes) survives becoming dinner

[@kusorarefan6667]

Lmao

[@timkurz6086]

What i really like about this channel is, that at first glance u might think its a food channel but in reality u do some proper research about all sorts of stuff which amazes me as an aspiring scientist

[@vladimirstroganoff4404]

Crabs don't feel pain? Then why are you taught to drop crabs and prawns into a pot of boiling water and not let them sit in the pot as the water begins to heat up? You do that kill them instantly so they don't have the suffer the process of being cooked alive. So ripping off their claws surely hurts them, a lot. This act of just ripping off the claws of the crabs is actually disgusting.

[@michaelsorensen7567]

Silly me I thought it was because of you drop them in cold water and boil them they poison themselves, and you if you eat them after. Which is why you should also not dump a whole bunch in at once

[@TheStrifist]

Normal people eating: Adam: ARE YOU FEELING IT MR. KRABS

[@realkingofantarctica]

So many, "It's inside of me" jokes at my disposal, not sure which one to pick.

[@MisterMicrowaves]

That’s easy, *all of them.*

[@TheSlavChef]

YTP incoming! A lot of material recently.

[@tatar_man8963]

@@TheSlavChef waiting!

[@PSlo0over]

Put it all we don't mind lol

[@KK-gr9df]

Skink lizards can consciously eject their tail. One time I was at college waiting for a bus and a small skink tried to chase me off by aggressively trying to bite my shoe. I just let it bite at my shoe’s toe. After a few minutes it dropped its tail and then ran away. The tail kept wiggling on the ground in front of me. A girl walked up and saw the tail wiggling on the ground in front of me. I was like 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@dicksdrugsanddebutantes9305]

How romantic

[@jarheadquak]

Still a better love story than twilight.

[@BeagleBageler]

@@jarheadquak 💯

[@cptcrogge]

Can the tail be eaten?

[@ImZMD]

@@cptcrogge WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THAT??/

[@benjaminclement8437]

Crabs are cool and surprisingly intelligent I had one in my fish tank and the first day it attacked my angle fish had it by the tale and started eating it so I flicked it and it let it go, it only ever took that one flick for it to learn not to do it while I was around. It was not scared of me in fact quite the opposite it would always come to greet me and show of it was very entertaining TBH climbing the plants and just being a lively little bugger however it would still eat the fish when I was not around. Now I wanted to test it's level of intelligence so I bought an angel fish again as they are dumb as shit as my sharks were to smart to let the crab eat them! so I put it in to see what would happen and sure enough the crab did not attack it even when the dumb shit would go right next to it's claws, so than I thought ok let the test begin so I left the tank light on and turned the room light of and waited and sure enough the crab went on the hunt. I waited till it was about to strike and turned the room light back on so it could see me and it run as far away from the fish as it could and than came to greet me as if to say hey look I was doing nothing, so I tested again with the same result than for a 3rd time same result however on the 4th time it learnt what I was doing and just ignored the fish however acted as if I was in the room even though it could not see me. The next day I went to work and it got the angel fish as I knew it would. Funny story I was moving so took the fish and crab to my sisters to mind while I got my tank re setup as she had a huge tank so big we needed to stand on a chair to reach right down, anyway my sister also had a crab and when I put mine in the moment it hit the bottom it run over to hers flipped it on it's back ripped it's claw out and started sucking it's insides out before we could react. My sister and I were like WTF just happened lol so yeah I let her keep my crab as compensation. Now clearly these are not sound test but it was enough to show me it has intelligence and the ability to learn quite fast, the flick to let it know not to eat the fish only ever happened once but was enough for it to learn while this creatures is around I must not do that at fear of punishment, yet the way it would greet me and come out to entertain me you could clearly see it was happy for lack of a better word to see me (like my parrot when I arrive home) and boy would it get excited when it would see me with it's worms for dinner. I kinda loved that little bugger he was a very entertaining little guy.

[@dmitrisemenoff6455]

Crabs are cool, and ruthless little buggers haha

[@Soulxxxreaper]

i never knew having an aquarium could be this cool

[@vankimtran4783]

In the beginning, I thought it was corn, damn thing is near immortal.

[@doctordong8088]

Lolololol

[@skepticmoderate5790]

Corn is not an animal.

[@palblue]

Who says that it isnt?

[@blocky9158]

@@skepticmoderate5790 Don't believe the corns, they just want you to think that! CORNS SUS!

[@got2kittys]

You must have seen the common corn-backed brown snake.

[@BastiatC]

"shouldn't take a thousand years though" _cries in gastroparesis_

[@user-vu2yb1gy4l]

:(

[@Algenie]

i felt that

[@aestronom1920]

Man...

[@Mendrawza24]

Stay strong friend.

[@deucedeuce1572]

Better than tapeworms. That's what I thought it was going to be about. You eat them and they survive (for decades) in your stomach... and can even cause cysticercosis, making tapeworm cysts all over your body and in your organs, like your liver, lungs and brain.

[@DangerSquiggles]

You do not usually get cysticercosis from an adult tapeworm im your gut. You will shed proglottids and eggs in your stool, and if these contaminate another persons food, the larvae might migrate to different parts of their body. Also, the tapeworm cannot survive its parasitation of the host and will not be eaten again.

[@martinmorbak8778]

I'm a stone crab. Wanted to make a full response here but it is hard to type with one claw.

[@jakmanxyom]

1:34 " _Giant_ meaty claws"? So close there, Adam, so close.

[@DavidAntelmo]

maybe WE wouldn't be HARVESTED if we DIDN'T HAVE B I G M E A T Y CLAWS!!

[@eidolor]

Just wait until the gmo chicken episode

[@mashihodpotatoetm4572]

@@kris-we5jd you like it😏

[@dausefulmarker]

8:15 hows this

[@JamesBlacklock]

Absolutely my favorite new KZbin channel. Thank you, algorithm. 👍🏻

[@sixstringedthing]

To everyone complimenting Adam on his "smooth segway": It's "segue". From Italian, meaning "it follows". A "Segway" is an impractical form of personal transport.

[@eddie-roo]

Languages evolves. No one uses Segway like that now.

[@KlineStife]

a mispelling isn't language evolving. it's like saying your and you're can be used in place of each other just cuz a ton of people can't english.

[@barryallen5507]

@@eddie-roo people still buy and rent Segways, don't be ignorant

[@tylerdurden3722]

English is one of few languages with dictionary spellings that haven't been updated in 1000 years. Hence why written English is so difficult to learn. You have to learn proper pronunciation of each word like you would have to learn Chinese characters. Most other languages have regulating bodies that update spellings to be consistent. In such languages you can pronounce any new word perfectly because characters have consistent sounds. Illiteracy on comment sections like these is actually causing the English language to evolve in positive direction. Segue is the proper spelling. But the spelling makes no sense in English. Just like the spellings of the words "light", "fiance" or "anonymous" makes no sense either. Segway is easier for an illiterate person.

[@joeywheeler3838]

I guess I learned a new thing today.

[@cherrycoke1944]

i have insomnia and my dad likes seafood, thank you for an educational video that i was able to watch at 3am and discuss with my dad the next day

[@niklaskoskinen123]

I just didn't have the heart to skip the sponsor, that was such a smooth segue. I bet Linus is feeling threatened.

[@RagingInsomniac]

The transitions Linus has are rougher than a driveway

[@Steve-ph7qn]

Linus has the worst segues, he does it on purpose. It’s like like “YoU kNoW WhAt ElSe iS *variable*”

[@akale2620]

Lol lingus literally once said now a word from our sponsors that you are gonna skip anyway

[@proallnighter]

@@akale2620 lol lingus

[@coffeeguyd]

"If you're a shark in the surf, I don't even want to know you..." 😂

[@thenoobinside9915]

3:23 God damnit now I’m imagining crabs that have rocket limbs

[@VideoNOLA]

"Why I season the ocean and not my steam pot."

[@patrickgono6043]

...and that's why the ocean is salty.

[@cocaptainwafflerazor8096]

Just so u know. I got it. And it was good. Nice on bro

[@JaMorantBiggerArm]

Nice

[@justinduck2953]

love how this meme is still a thing

[@sugarrookieart]

Lmaoooo, very glad this is a thing still too

[@aguspuig6615]

theres some scientifics papers about how different animals keep evolving into crab looking spicies, maybe thers something super well optimised about the crab form

[@UserOfTheName]

Crabs are so well optimized and so inevitable that true crabs weren't the first crabs

[@rgerber]

crocodiles are literally unchanged for millions of years. Talk about effective

[@Cernunnnos]

@@rgerber thems rookie numbers, you need to scuttle them up.

[@cheddaboyant7817]

Carcination? Carcinization? Sum shit like that

[@henningberg7975]

@@rgerber My ex reminds me of a crocodile, coincidence ?

[@stefan1024]

I appreciate how this channel slowly cranks up the body horror while escorting me on my long journey to vegetarism.

[@Paul_K_]

I truly think a full understanding of the animal suffering necessary to produce meat to eat would have a positive effect on the meat eating habits of humans-it would be enough disgust to avoid unnecessary meat in whatever nonsense we eat day-to-day to get calories, and but would still allow meat-eating for special occasions. For example, I think seeing a cow get slaughtered would make most people forgo doing weeknight meals of hamburger helper, or stuffing our face with low-quality fast food hamburgers, but would still allow us to enjoy a prime, dry-aged steak once a month or something, respecting the slaughter that had to take place to give us a special feast. Reducing to that level of meat intake would do wonders for the environment, and for human health (medical consensus is that daily meat-eating is at least somewhat harmful). Quality over quantity is the name of the game for eating meat, for so many reasons. I would absolutely eat fresh stone crab if I were vacationing in Florida or something, even after seeing this video and learning the harm it does to crabs. I would just cross it off the list of things to ever eat frequently.

[@chasefox3100]

@@Paul_K_ I seen just about every type of slaughter videos there are. Both sanctioned and non sanctioned. I seen people eat live squids and othee intelligent lifeforms. I still don't care. Not one iota. If I want a cheeseburger I am going to eat it. If I want lasagna with chicken or beef I am going to eat it. Until the day that there meat substitutes that don't suck and aren't disgusting I will continue to eat as much meat as I please.

[@15thPresident]

@@chasefox3100 I think Paul's suggestion is mainly appealing to non-psychopaths, but thanks for your perspective.

[@chasefox3100]

@@15thPresident I am not a psychopath. At least probably not anyway. I do experience emotions (kids are the greatest thing ever) but I just can't feel anything for animals. Probably doesn't help that I view all lifeforms not us to be inherently inferior (I am at my core very jingoistic and would be frilled for humanity to reign Supreme over everything).

[@karme286]

@@chasefox3100 I mean maybe eat other food besides meat substitutes if you hate them that much? Spicy bean burgers are pretty good for example, no meat taste needed at all.

[@unseenadventures8130]

I think it's cool you dive into the ethics of meat Harvest and and a little bit into the consciousness of animals. I am a avid meat eater, I like wild meat elk and deer the best occasionally eating raw but also like raw cow liver. But growing up on a farm I learned cows are smart and have strong emotions just as we do. I learned this when i was 10. I raised a cow, bottle feeding it every morning before and after school. Couple years later I was walking my grandfathers property and this cow comes running up to me out of nowhere and kinda scares me until I realize it was that cow I raised. So I eat meat but have a strong feeling that it is another living breathing and feeling creature. One think that helps put these conflicting feeling in perspective is, a cave painting found depicting a tribal shaman accompanying the animals sole into the afterlife after a hunt.😑 don't know but life is tough miserable and beautiful all at the same time.

[@mate12cf]

I mean, I think that if you care about animals and how they feel it's better for you to just cut the meat off altogether, I also worked in a farm and grew up to become vegan as an adult, is not really that hard

[@HateItHere.]

@@mate12cf Plants are animals. You can't avoid death regardless if they don't feel any pain.

[@redSUPERMAN2]

​@@HateItHere.plants are plants, not animals. Different cellular makeup and processes

[@trevnti]

⁠@@mate12cf I love animals just not more than I love my healthy and well rounded diet. Two things can be true at once. Many ppl care about homeless ppl but wouldn’t give them large sums of money daily. Doesn’t mean they don’t care, just different priorities. Being a vegan is hard, especially if it doesn’t work for your genetics, if you don’t enjoy eating or it’s a chore. Being a vegetarian is a bit easier. Also being vegan is a luxury and a privilege. All things suffer so other things can live. Even in the animal kingdom there’s very few obligate vegetarians. (Similar with very few obligate carnivores) most are facilitate vegetarians. Ppl should eat what makes them healthy. As long as it’s no mass farming junk (if you can AFFORD not to). And get away from the SAD diet

[@gir4ff_flawless93]

that sponsor transition was on point once again

[@manavhirani]

That transition to Surfshark though

[@alfalfabillenjoyer4878]

I love how Adam transitions to his sponsors.

[@hugoa.c.1566]

This one was a masterpiece

[@lifepreviouslybalanced5743]

Got me again :')

[@keannaiharris]

His ability to slide in those sponsors are unmatched

[@GilbertNS]

This got me remember the episode in Spongebob where Mr Krab went out from the hospital, dropped his arms, then casually came back in

[@grahamlarsen2082]

1:33 Well maybe we wouldn’t get harvested if we didn’t have BIG, MEATY CLAWS!

[@ejej_shej7958]

BRING IT ON OLD MAN

[@Goabnb94]

Well these big meaty claws aren't just for attracting mates!

[@gralha_]

giant meaty claws

[@Ketaruz]

@@ejej_shej7958 No let's be smart and bring it off.

[@MihoreanuAndrei]

While it still feels a bit weird, considering that the crab ejects its claw when another animal tries to eat it in order to get away and live another day, you could say that the same thing is happening when a human tries to eat it. Maybe even with a better survival rate, because a shark might come back for the rest of the crab, while the human will be satisfied with its claw.

[@Shaun.Stephens]

Not so fast! I didn't hear Adam say that STONE crabs can eject limbs. If they can it makes sense that, not only would they on capture but that they'd have a higher survival rate.

[@Koz.for.Concern]

@@Shaun.Stephens no he literally did say that. 1:19

[@Shaun.Stephens]

@@Koz.for.Concern Try listening again at 2:19 He says "crabs in the wild", not "stone crabs...". Looking at the literature on the subject it seems lots of species are mentioned but not stone crabs. If stone crabs did it they wouldn't need to so forcefully break the claw off, just suspending the crab by the claw would trigger it to 'drop' the claw. In fact an extensive search for /anything/ about autotomy and stone crabs only mentions 'forced de-clawing' and 'induced autotomy'.

[@sinnison23]

@@Shaun.Stephens It seems as though you assume a crab simply ejects their claw instantly at first sign of danger. It requires effort on part of the predator, as their claw is extremely important to their survival as a means of defense, predation, and environmental manipulation. Logically, if it is capable of doing so in the hands of a fisherman or researcher, it is capable of doing so for any other predator. I'm not entirely sure why one would need specific confirmation that stone crabs are capable of autotomy in the wild if it is already known that they are capable of doing it _at all._ They must have been doing it for quite some time before humans ever figured it out, if it's an intrinsic part of their physiology.

[@skygge1006]

@@Shaun.Stephens well consider this if it’s satisfies you. Stone crabs take about 3 years to regain their claw back to 95% of its original size so yes they can regrow that limb.

[@SpaceShrimp]

about lizards they do have an annular muscle dedicated to sever the portion of the tail, that jiggles on the ground to distract their predator. I've witnessed this several times, without ever touching the lizard. this was on a tropical island, near Madagascar. great videos as always ^^

[@NiklasRi]

That unlucky crustacean that is getting his arm removed a second time: "Oh Crab, here we go again"

[@jackharamija4913]

Today's ad transition was top tier

[@Seppes94]

Yeah, I was like: 'Why would a shark grab a crab by it's claw? That makes no sense. They don't even eat crabs.' Then I knew.

[@yashaswinich99]

Came here to say this!

[@yarn1471]

You're walking the forest, nothing seems off. Suddently, a cage appears around you. While passes. The cage opens and hands of a titan grab you, holding you over a giant container. You writhe in unbearable pain as it tears your arms off. You're released back in to the forest.

[@virtualabc7847]

Last time I was this early Adam's wheat was still growing Most likes I've ever gotten

[@TheSlavChef]

And he was catching pigeons under the bridge!

[@ExcuseMe881]

20 eggs yes 20

[@TheRubberMatch]

Last time I was this early he was seasoning his steak

[@Scootz_]

As a crab myself, I can definitely say I'd rather not lose my claws in the first place!🦀

[@AveImperatoris]

Sorry crab, pasta la vista

[@ShyFly221]

Life it is then

[@jedstanaland2897]

Yes I knew about this one before you showed the thing about the stone crabs but I also thought you were talking about a tardigrade or a parasite. I will also say that the method of harvest is much safer and more importantly more sustainable than what the other options was.

[@dangerouscolors]

never thought id be able to do something adam cant: scrape all the meat out of a crab carapace

[@cuanchulainn]

Bro i eat the organs too, that stuff's delicious

[@chaosblitz7921]

@@cuanchulainn Same same, that's where all the flavor is hiding

[@Seperaklance]

He's missing out on the crab roe. Whole crab is a huge pain to eat though so I get it.

[@NiqIce]

The one odd thing I like about this channel is how fluid and smooth he slides in the promotions and sponsors. Like you don’t see something like that often in other channels. Some other channels even just mentions their sponsors at the end of the video where everyone has already watched it and can just leave. This channel tho, smooth as duck

[@eustacebagge5873]

I love these short documentary style videos, keep it up Adam this is a great second series to regular cooking and I can tell it makes you happy to share said knowledge

[@izzycurer1260]

Anyone who's ever had hermit crabs knows they're emotional, social creatures. They each have distinct personalities. They chatter to one another like birds. They get annoyed at one another if someone pesters them too much. Of course it hurts them to have their arms ripped off. What else are nerves for?

[@DangerSquiggles]

There is a difference between nociception and pain, the first being a distress signal of the peirpheral nervous system, the other the response of the central nervous system to this signal.

[@tomypreach]

That segway to "shark-something" was beautiful.

[@chezmoi42]

That's why he chose to do this subject, so he could slide that in.

[@MrHamboneBro]

4:07 that Surfshark segue! Adam's sponsor segues are the best. Knocked my claws off

[@mickeynotmouse]

the question at the forefront of my mind, that wasn't addressed, was: Why not farm them? sounds like the reason they don't survive is because they have less defenses in the wild, but if they regrow their claws why not just farm the claws and keep them alive in tanks. Get 3, 4, 5 claws out of them, make sure they've reproduced before they die of old age, etc etc

[@l.u.c.a.s.]

Because that would be horrible and unnecessary? Imagine if you spent your entire life having your arms _yanked off_ again and again until you die. I'd rather be mutilated just once, whether I die or not afterwards.

[@toobig7399]

It's hard to farm aquatic animals, hard and expensive to even start. That's the main setbacks

[@HanYou2]

@@l.u.c.a.s. it's horrible in our eyes but they don't know they are missing something, in the same way a blind dog doesn't know it's blind

[@kittenmimi5326]

@@l.u.c.a.s. I am not a crab or a lizard. i cannot just detach a limb via my own will and have that special diaphragm to seal off the wound I dont have the small brain or the almost nonexistent pain response of a crab Same van be said about you And neither you or I could just live underwater either so whats the point of this really? Crabs arent human they shouldnt get treated like one

[@HanYou2]

@@ailithtwinning6806 haha ok. It's not like we're doing it for fun, we need food and i think this is one of the better examples of us harvesting something. The thing is we have too much power and it's difficult to know when to stop before doing real harm. On the other hand we're part of nature and if our way of doing things does not work, natural selection will take care of us. We do need to control outselves of we want to survive

[@skylahenry8552]

Imagine someone breaks off your arm but you survive and manage to eat well and remain healthy enough to grow it back. Only to get caught again and have your arm stolen again.

[@carsondubs]

That sponsor transition was crazy

[@lifepreviouslybalanced5743]

"a cow is knocked first" *Sam o nella flashbacks* no thank you

[@Oh_Lionheart]

"We'll call this guy Craig."

[@lifepreviouslybalanced5743]

@@Oh_Lionheart why did he name Craig?!! *sniff*

[@etornatu5346]

"Males are typically castrated soon after birth, usually without anesthesia"

[@Mrmanny76]

I have found an above average amount of stone crabs with only one claw, so it's good to finally know why.

[@greatspetsnaz3181]

Well, since everything seems to be evolving into crabs. Even though I'm not one, I could, as a future crab, say that I would rather lose limb than to lose life.

[@jaydenmcdonald4558]

YES SOMEONE ELSE WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH. WE WILL ALL BE CRABS

[@Pablorovirita]

That was a reeeeally smooth transition to the sponsored segment, well done~

[@alexhop1143]

That sponegbob episode where Mr. Krabs loses his claws makes so much more sense now.

[@evinduggins2431]

Crawdads around here in northern Ca re grow claws. But the new claw is very small, never as big as the first, if they survive the initial trauma in the first place. Interesting video.

[@mlw4428]

Makes me truly think about stone crab farming where the crab itself is dispatched, the claws removed for sale, the remaining meat extracted and used to feed the other crabs.

[@Luciusem]

It took me until the absolute end of the video to realize he meant the crab itself survives and not that the claw somehow is still alive and survives you eating it. I'm dumb sometimes.

[@zeehighness9310]

I had the wrong idea as well 🤣🤣🤣

[@pissoffeachother]

Its kinda a misleading title

[@henningberg7975]

@@pissoffeachother For stupid ppl yes

[@jackwells1073]

That was a next-level ad transition, even by your standards.