Now you know...

[telophase]

Thanks to the Comics Curmudgeon today, I know know that boxer crabs hold sea anemones in each claw and use them to fight off intruders:

http://www.vibrantsea.net/boxer19_anilao18.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/diverslog/142677492/
http://www.deeperblue.net/article.php/208/13
http://www.underwaterphotography.com/photo-contest/View.asp?ID=12393
http://www.edge-of-reef.com/brachiuri/BRALybiatessellataen.htm


I'm seeing some sort of fancy anemone-waving martial art now. Anemone no Jutsu!



Actually, it sounds vaguely familiar. I probably ran across it in a book as a kid. It's still filed under WAY TOO FUCKING COOL.

Comments

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Ninja boxer crabs fight by throwing starfish.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Looking at those pictures, I just can't get behind the martial arts slant. To me it looks like the ditzy cheerleader of the crustacean world.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

No, see, much like some traditional Chinese arts, it perfectly combines yang and yin. You've got the yang of the stinging action of the anemones, balanced by the yin of the ditzy cheerleader.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Ah, so it's sort of like "Kim Possible"!

But crabbier!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*cheers and waves anemones*

[(Anonymous)]

You have led me to read the Comics Curmudgeon, curse you. I had no idea people got so personally invested in "Rex Morgan, M.D", and "The Family Circus" still, or that the author of FBOFW gets more vitriol flung in her direction than the average politician.

People are weird. Boxer crabs, however, are fucking cool.

[marith.livejournal.com]

ack, that was me.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The Comics Curmudgeon is great. :D Especially if you, like me, don't bother to read the comments. :) Josh is in the kids-because-he-loves category, but some of the commenters seem to be way over the nutbar line.

But it's all worth it for the boxer crabs.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

AHAHAH! It is like fighting with stingy ponpons! Or handfuls of stingy spaghetti!
XDDD

[the-z.livejournal.com]

Spirit Squad Crabs!

*bubble bubble bubble*

[homasse.livejournal.com]

That is so effin' cool!

...and the little anemone boxing glove pompoms is just adorable. *squee*

[melster.livejournal.com]

! that is *wonderful*. Boxer crabs are now officially on my list of awesome ocean animals.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

I fully expect that to show up as a villian power in One Piece.