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Related: About this forumWeird 'cloud' of crabs off Panama baffles scientists (+video)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0412/Weird-cloud-of-crabs-off-Panama-baffles-scientists-video"A shadowy, shifting swarm of crabs swimming near the ocean floor astonished scientists and served as a reminder of how many discoveries are yet to be made in the ocean's depths.
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Mass., discovered the crab migration in April 2015, while conducting a series of 26 deep-sea dives to seamounts off the coast of Panama. They were investigating why the underwater volcanoes attract such a diversity of marine life. While diving via submarine, they saw stingrays, octopuses, and sea turtles, and on their last dive, they found crabs thousands of them.
"When we dove down in the submarine, we noticed the water became murkier as we got closer to the bottom," said Jesús Pineda, a biologist at Woods Hole, in a press release. "There was this turbid layer, and you couldn't see a thing beyond it. We just saw this cloud but had no idea what was causing it."
The crab swarm surprised the researchers both in location and activity. Red crabs usually swim further north, closer to California than to Panama. A more typical red crab sighting came last summer, when thousands of red crabs washed ashore near San Diego, as the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Weird 'cloud' of crabs off Panama baffles scientists (+video) (Original Post)
HuckleB
Apr 2016
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Wow. That's a bunch of crabs! Is it bad of me to think of melted butter?
Arkansas Granny
Apr 2016
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AxionExcel
(755 posts)1. Wall Street Bankers (R) ?
...scuttling into the shadows ?
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)2. This may be near Panama, but the crabs are not involved.
Poor crabs, just having a party and getting dissed for it.
AxionExcel
(755 posts)4. Oh, so you are saying that the crabs are not literally Wall Street bankers.
I see. Thank you for making everything plain. You have performed a high literary service.
Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)3. Wow. That's a bunch of crabs! Is it bad of me to think of melted butter?
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)5. I'm not sure how good this type of crab is for eating, but...
it's never bad think about melted butter!
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)7. Don't get me started!
I'm from the Atlantic coast - born and raised - and I miss seafood soooooo bad! Live inland now, and any coastal child will tell you, never eat seafood when you're more than fifty miles from the coast. I eat trout and salmon now.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)8. Whao. That's a lot of crabs!
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)10. +1,000,000 ... 000
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)9. Panama has crabs?
Again????