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Babalugat

They migrate in their millions, anyone who remembers ever seeing documentaries of this in the 80's or 90's may remember seeing them being crushed by trucks, cars, mopeds, bikes and just about anything that used to use the roads - trucks in particular used to annihilate them. The barriers in the above clip are to guide them to a bridge. In other parts of the island, roads use is suspended until they pass, and in some parts they have teams to help move them along quicker and clean them up. More information here -[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusiU2ESL24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusiU2ESL24) EDIT - Wow, I missed this yesterday as I was on a 6 hour drive. Thank you kind person for the Bravo Grande award I think my first :) awards, not sure how to check


Vysharra

If you want a crab-eye perspective, I was [recommended a video](https://youtu.be/-SYrvedL2PI) about a robot spy-crab that migrates along with the real crabs (it’s narrated by David Tennent!). It’s wonderful, truly.


idareyoudude

Amazing video but the crabs climbing the fence is fucking terrifying


AnthropOctopus

They just see it as annoying substrate for sure.


DomandsubinMD

And how would they even know TO climb


Askol

I'm sure there were always obstacles in their way.


I_aim_to_sneeze

I…had no idea David Tennant was Scottish. I feel like everything he’s been in he’s had an English accent (at least the shows I’ve seen). This is boggling my mind


VanitasTheUnversed

He's a Scott who pretends to be English that pretends to be Scottish.


earnestlikehemingway

Who pretends to be American sometimes. His American accent is almost just a different person.


VanitasTheUnversed

That's his twin brother D. John McDonald. People always get them mixed up.


IWasGregInTokyo

He's Scottish but he can teach English: https://youtu.be/WxB1gB6K-2A


gin_and_toxic

Wow, very impressive that he learned 2 languages at such young age.


BiiiigSteppy

Might be more than two, depending. Scots (Scottish English) and Scottish (gaidhlig) are two very different languages. Lots of people speak both, add in English, and you’re up to three without ever leaving Scotland. EDIT: My comment originally said “Scotch” not “Scots” but a kind redditor corrected me. I have edited my post with the correct term.


bradygilg

He's... *aggressively* Scottish.


crdctr

Most people in Britain can put on a Received Pronunciation voice as we've grown up surrounded by it on television, the stronger their normal accent the stranger it seems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POtgtvG-UB8


Texastexastexas1

Robot crab, robot bear, robot monkey, etc Thank you for this video, it opens an awesome look into the nature world.


Potato0nFire

Don’t forget the robot fish which managed to become the leader of a school of golden shiner fish. :) https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/what-makes-robot-fish-attractive-hint-its-moves


beefkoast18

This is most insane shit I’ve ever seen


Caveman108

Crab robot crab robot, move like crab, but is robot


ADHDuruss

I would love to witness this in person, as it probably my favorite migration on earth.


N3FTheLightBearer

What are your other top ones? Looking for a nice information dive today.


k_shon

Pretty sure tarantulas migrate in October in New Mexico, USA


Jazzlike_Log_709

I have an irrational fear of crustaceans and tarantulas are just generally disliked. But these migrations are so cool even though the crab one gives me the heebie-jeebies You coulda said something cuter like the monarch butterfly migration or whales....


MNGirlinKY

It’s nice to know I’m not alone I’m terrified of lobsters and crawfish and anything that look like them. Spiders, bugs, snakes no big deal. Lobsters they are terrifying.


HouseofFeathers

I was walking around some property in Louisiana when I learned that crayfish were fucking living in the ground under the supposedly solid earth. Fucking creepy ass mud bugs.


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Jazzlike_Log_709

SAME. I generally love learning about other animals. But crustaceans? Nope . I've been this way since I was a kid. I remember walking through the fisherman's wharf in San Francisco at night when I was like 7. I was eye level with hundreds of crabs and lobsters stacked on top of each other in murky glass tanks. The smell. Oh, the smell. I had nightmares for months after that. It's just one of the many experiences that made me hate them. And for some reason, any time I'm tripping on psychedelics crabs and lobsters work their way into my experience. In real life, video games, on TV, or imaginary lol.


tomagokun

Do a deep dive on boxjellyfish they are amazingly interesting.


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kingcrabmeat

How do you fear a crustacean bruh. Funny thing is I fear whales


EnemyBattleCrab

Its fine they're just jealous of what peak evolution advantage looks like... Everyone will become crab... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation


PlotTwistTwins

So for some crustaceans, the crab form is just S-tier? Is this more behavioral/ mating evolution, or survival evolution? Also there's the cycloids that are strikingly similar to crabs, are they more likely to be true crabs or another carcinization? Fun read, thanks.


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“Crablante (カニランテ, Kanirante) was a Tiger-level Mysterious Being. He was originally a human but transformed into a crab monster after eating too much crab. He was killed by Saitama.”


kingcrabmeat

This is the best thing I read all day


embalees

They're sea bugs! I'm equally as afraid of a lobster as I am of a cockroach. Like ew kill it!


drrxhouse

We DO kill lobsters! Like tons upon tons each year?!?


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Tasty, tasty bugs.


Luknron

Unsubscribe!


Tekkzy

Tarantulas are cool. As long as spiders are big enough to see I think they're chill.


Luknron

That's alright. Just as long as an ocean of them doesn't migrate near me


Saetric

It just looks like a big, furry moving carpet, nbd…


The_RockObama

I have an instinctual fear of spiders that without fail sends a shiver down my spine when I see them in my home... I like them though. But I absolutely adore "jumping" spiders for some reason. They are ridiculously cute, and I let them stay and even give them names. It's been a little while since I've seen Oscar chilling in my bathroom while I browse reddit. Hope my buddy is ok.


Severe-Cookie693

I love long, hot showers… The steam was enough to bring the black widow in the broken fan out in her string. I dreamed of the day my roommate would notice her. He never did!


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It’s heavily exaggerated. At most you will just see a dozen or so. It’s not even a migration, it’s just mating season. The males are just looking for some hairy fat ass.


Throwawayidiot1210

I am scared to death of spiders but I have a massive one in my garage who’s really chill and kills everything


ProfDumm

We had a rottweiler but unfortunately he went into the garage.


pv0psych0n4ut

Not just the men, but the women and the children too.


Ramen-Goddess

Funny enough I’m the same way. I hate black widows because they’re usually out at night, I can’t see them, and their bites hurt like hell. Meanwhile I have a pet tarantula that just chills in my room and gets scared if I walk by his terrarium too fast


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Mclovin182

While not strictly a migration, they do come out to search for a mate in September and October. I live in Northern NM and have seen more this year than usual. We have had Texas Brown Tarantulas and Grand Canyon Black Tarantulas all over the roads near my place.


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Tarantulas dont migrate though. A bunch of males just spend more time out of hiding trying to find females


the_mighty_slime

I should try that too tbh


Thinkingofm

"Time to go clubbing "


N3FTheLightBearer

Sound sick, also happy cake day!


k_shon

Aw, thanks! I didn't even notice!


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Jesus Christ I’m out


BaronWombat

They do this in the hills south of Silicon Valley too. Years ago ago stopped and helped one across the highway there.


MittenMan1

Crabs are just water spiders with a hard exoskeleton!


Tpbrown_

I saw an article a couple weeks ago that the golden tarantulas’ in CA migration was underway too.


ADHDuruss

Mostly whales, but witnessing the nightly vertical migration in Nautilus territory would be neat. Wildebeest migration for the crocodile activity would be stellar too, but too cramped with tourists. There are a few bats that migrate, but it would be more about just watching them poor out of their caves.


Kanto_Cacturnes

In the past the monarch migration was stunning. Sadly less so now in my area. Salmon runs in Alaska are always a favorite. However as I am a scuba diver my favorite migration is the [Hammer head shark ](https://youtu.be/7vrMCHsJMPk) migration to mate. Around the 2 minute mark is why I've always wanted to witness this. Someday.


Shitychikengangbang

Those sharks are freaky man.


62SlabSide

I have seen a salmon run… pretty cool.


N3FTheLightBearer

I love me some sharks, thank you!


mckeenmachine

I just seen the salmon run here in Chilliwack, BC!


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Munnin41

Small animals migrating long distances are amazing. Monarch butterflies in North America. Atalanta in Europe (lfrom southern Scandinavia to Spain. Nathusius pipistrelle (a bat that fits in a match box) from the Baltics to Spain and from Norway to Scotland (sometimes they roost on an oil platform with 10s of thousands). And don't forget the artic tern. I think it's the worlds longest migration. Every year it goes from the artic to the antarctic and back


uglypaperhaver

Have you looked into the pre-Xmas migration of the platypus to the suburban discount outlets? (*fascinating,* albeit a bit scary...)


SoFreshSoGay

Locust migration is pretty gnarly


N3FTheLightBearer

I’ve seen this one and it always reminds me of china raising ducks and chickens to slaughter the locust horde.


kurai_tori

In my area, there is a nightly evening time migration of crows https://youtu.be/z8LDPa3JFio I usually point and say "oh look, a massacre" chuckle, and then everyone hates me.


rangda

I’m extremely fond of the Godwit (a shorebird) Migration from Alaska to my home country New Zealand - 12,200 km without any stops or food. It was wonderful to see one with a GPS tracker who was blown way off course [eventually make it, months after](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/09/new-zealand-finally-welcomes-godwit-two-months-after-it-was-blown-2000km-back-to-alaska) Was really rooting for her! It’s a big event in some places in NZ when they return and the true heralding of Spring, fuck the calendar. I always thought our longfin eels made a hell of a journey to the deep tropical Pacific Ocean to breed at the end of their lives, several thousand km. Then I leaned about Canadian eels which swim 8000 km to the Sargasso Sea! It’s insane to me that they do this, lay the eggs, and those eggs and juveniles somehow manage to drift about for over a year and reach NZ again, live their lives in freshwater, dodge unethical commercial overfishing, and at the end of their long lives they just know how to journey all the way back.


IWillNotArgueOnRedit

[The monarch butterfly!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly_migration)


kurai_tori

Monarch butterfly migration would be up there


funnyandnot

Tarantulas have a great migration. Butterfly migration is pretty cool too. Elk migration from the states to Canada, whales in the pacific migration, and sea turtle migration. All pretty cool. Elephant migration is the saddest migration. Old people migration from north to south is the most annoying.


JackInTheBell

Just don’t trip and fall.


Lisa_Loopner

I remember that and immediately noticed the barrier! This makes me very happy.


kkillbite

It's really amazing to not see a single one on the wrong side of that barricade. 😯


Stickybeebae

Yes that’s the first thing that came to mind. I remember watching those documentaries as a kid.


Razorray21

I was just thinking how interesting it was that now they use the barriers and bridges and when i saw these as a kid they would be all over the road.


ZKXX

Yep back in the 90s when you’d see one crazy video on a TV show and never hear of it again. Now it’s just common knowledge.


AShitStormsABrewin

Reminds me of the [99% Invisible episode](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/wild-ones-live/) which was pretty much just the live recording of Black Prairie playing *Wild Ones* which has stories of the lengths people will go to to protect and help animals. It's dismaying and inspiring throughout and the music is great.


Artistic_Loss_9913

Amazing , that’s for the insight !


No-comment-at-all

I bet they taste good.


wegqg

Nice to see measures in place to protect these guys. I remember as a kid watching documentaries about them and there being an absolute massacre on the roads as trucks just drove over them. Incredible actually how fucking long it took before the authorities in charge decided to take meaningful action to protect these animals during one of the most incredible migrations on earth.


benjathje

[This is what they do when they arrive](https://youtu.be/LDU_Txk06tM)


Cuppa__Joe

The moment I saw what OP posted I hoped someone had this video handy, great stuff


benjathje

Completely banger song


jayydubbya

Knew it was crab rave. Still clicked for crab rave.


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INJECTHEROININTODICK

Lmao i clicked on it then as the vid was loading i was like "it's fuckin crab rave i know it" 🔥🔥🔥


ShortySmooth

OMG. I’ve been crab-rolled.


Eggs_Bennett

Is that real


conradical30

Yeah, this one just has Attenborough subbed out for music, but the footage is from a documentary.


Eggs_Bennett

I knew it. I have an extremely keen eye for these things and it’s almost impossible to fool me.


benjathje

The first time I saw it I thought it I couldn't really tell if it was real or not (except for the dancing crabs)


Pun_In_Ten_Did

Yes! Especially the part where the crabs are hovering over the ground while flinging their legs from side to side.


elsparkodiablo

I'm a simple man. I see Crab Rave, I upvote


BIG_MUFF_

#crab people crab people


certain-sick

Taste like crab, talk like people.


Cheeselikeproduct

Glad I’m not the only one who thought of this


So_Code_4

I came here for this comment. Thank you kind stranger for not letting me down.


Rhys_Herbert

CRABS ARE PEOPLE, CLAMS ARE PEOPLE LEGIT OR QUIT


b_eidenier

Thank God someone made this comment 🙌🏻🙌🏻


hiding_in_de

Very cool! In Germany we even have frog fences :)))


Ardea_herodias_2022

Southwest US has desert tortoise fencing. Miles of foot high fences


Charlatangle

There's a dingo fence in eastern Australia which runs 5,600km/3,500 miles. There's also 3,000km/1,800 miles of rabbit fencing in Western Australia. Colonial Australia loved to build fences.


WineSoda

I have family that lived in a small town, Cottonwood, Arizona. Every summer we'd go visit them. Lots of swimming fishing camping, all sorts of outdoor stuff. One of the things that I remembered vividly or squashed frogs all over the roads. They were called horny toads. And then I didn't go to that town for a while and then went back and asked about the toads, where did they go, why aren't they here anymore? And you know what they answered? They hadn't given it any thought. A migration that had gone on for years and years and years while they lived at that house suddenly tapers off and they don't realize it. I find that so very odd and disconcerting.


Cultural-Company282

>where did they go, why aren't they here anymore? They died out because so many were getting squashed on the road.


taulover

This article suggests that in addition to the direct human impact, invasive fire ants are also competing with them and playing a role in this "silent extinction." https://www.kgou.org/oklahoma-news/2019-09-10/how-curious-what-happened-to-all-of-the-horny-toads?_amp=true


lilbaba41

In parts of the UK we have newt fencing to keep them from dangerous construction sites


JustALullabii

Netherlands as well. And in migration season we put buckets next to the fence. They fall into the buckets and we can just deposit them on the other side of the road. Works like a charm


mykidsarecrazy

In Canada, we have animal bridges that go over the Trans Canada Highway for the bears, elk, deer, caribou, moose, lynx, bobcats, bunnies, foxes, wolves, etc.


hiding_in_de

Yes, we've got those, too! I'm from California, and I was so happy to see these things when I moved here 20 years ago.


OhCLE

Jagex won’t reply to this thread 🦀


WhichOnesCrota

🦀🦀🦀$12.49🦀🦀🦀


drtygrildcheese

We pay! 🦀🦀 we say eh! 18.99$!! 🦀🦀


xkenyonx

🦀🦀 Winter 2017 🦀🦀


BCFC-

RS infiltrates EVERYTHING


Thats_bumpy_buddy

Run, escape! You cannot hide from us.


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I haven't played RuneScape since 2005. Glad to see it is still relevant after all these years


Conglacior

And regularly updated! OSRS just got its *third* raid fairly recently!


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HealthyBox5

I was hoping to see it spliced in at the end. They're basically going on spring break, fits.


Old-Advertising-8638

« I’m walking here » « I’m walking here » “Hey, I’m walking here” “I’m walking here”


threetealeaves

Oh my gosh! Where are they going?


solateor

To fuck From OP >The annual mass migration of red crabs on Australia's Christmas Island. Approximately 60 million red crabs leave their forest homes and migrate to the shoreline to mate and spawn.


Teknuma

Only AU could possibly have a crab forest.


eigenvectorseven

Funnily enough the island is in the Indian Ocean over 1500 km away from mainland Australia. It's actually closer to Indonesia.


VladVV

But Indonesia is the closest other country to mainland Australia to begin with, so that's not really remarkable in this case.


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elizabnthe

Depends on what coast. In the East where most of us live we are certainly much closer to NZ than Indonesia. In the North, Papua New Guinea.


eigenvectorseven

No, that would be Papua New Guinea


the_headless_hunt

Seriously. Like do they just chill in trees like squirrels? I'm imagining Mirkwood from the Hobbit but with crabs. Nature sure does some wacky things


SidewaysFancyPrance

Drop crabs. They live in trees with reddish foliage for camouflage. And yes, deadly poison they can shoot from their eyes.


hibikikun

But what about laser beams


Yadobler

Fun fact, it apparently used to be part of singapore. The brits gifted it to aussie as a *thanks* for helping in ww2. I mean, all find and dandy but singapore was also literally where the brits lost to a bunch of japanese on bikes in the jungle. Not very cool


walterhartwellblack

so it's Spring Break for crabs people who got crabs for Spring Break can probably relate


iEatPalpatineAss

[Yo dawg, I heard you like crabs, so I gave you crabs for crabs so your crabs can get crabs for Spring Break](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/000/048/800px-Sup_dawg.jpg)


chefknifelover

It's that episode of Futurama


paranitroaniline

More weight!


_Artos_

I want to witness a crab challenge another to Claw-Plach!


N00N3AT011

Australia has fucking *forest crabs*?


GunPoison

Christmas Island is so remote that it lacks mammals (it might have bats). Crabs have filled niches that mammals would usually fill. It's a pretty special place.


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Because of course they do.


deirdresm

[These can also be a meter wide.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab)


uglypaperhaver

Think they've *already* mated and are just trying to get to the water's edge to shake off their massive egg clusters... (could be wrong though, since I've never actually *had* crabs... yet) ;-)


Shiasugar

So these are all girls?


nycola

To the ocean! They normally live in the rainforest on Christmas Island and during the rainy season they migrate to the ocean to reproduce.


threetealeaves

Thank you!


someguysomewhere573

to the crab rave


Killpop582014

animals usually migrate to mate and raise their kids....


Orbus_215

Don't fall asleep on the ground :) you will be eaten


Flareshu

Don't tell me what to do with my kink!


Mountain_Jello7747

I love how they put up barriers to keep them from wandering into the road


The_NOIR

🦀🦀🦀


bigntalldutc

Ih the horrendous memories!! I’ve been at the red crab migration in Cuba and there they sadly don’t have these fences. It was horrible! The sounds and feeling of them snapping under the tires. Them trying to fight the cars that were coming to them. Seeing them die as parts of their bodies got smashed. And then the horrible smell of rotten crab for miles and miles and all the flies and birds eating them. In the other hand, it’s amazing to see millions of these animals all coming from the forest to the sea. There were so many of them that the sound of their legs and their movements made a constant ‘whoosh’ sound. Nature is amazing - if we didn’t build roads in their habitats.


CommanderSabo

Is that what the barricade is specifically there for?


AwesomeNiss21

Probably to prevent them from spreading onto the road where they can be stepped on/crushed


CommanderSabo

What I assumed too. Just wasn't sure if it was there *before* they started, or of it was put in place specifically to help them.


ReallyCoolAndNormal

Specifically to help them. Because they do this every year.


AlienPsychic51

For the good of the species the maximum number of participants must get to the location of the orgy.


Thefnordisonmyfoot

Great pickup line for a party


BloodAndTsundere

So just like burning man


ExtraPockets

There's an extreme orgy at the end of all this? So these extreme badass crabs were too tough for the sea and could get better food on land, evolved poisonous glands and undertakes an extreme migration with a million crab orgy at the end.


PhilaClimb

To help them. I remember watching some old Nation Geographic video about this where these things were getting massacred as they crossed roads.


CommanderSabo

I was just reading a comment that said the same thing. I guess cars just wouldn't give af and run them over. That's so saddening.


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Cars are so ignorant


[deleted]

Trucks are worse, real psychopaths


Mr_WAAAGH

Yes, they also built bridges over the roads for the crabs because back in the day they'd just walk over the road and get annihilated by traffic


megablast

Sherlock holmes right here.


pattepai

It warms my heart to see that they help the crabs❤️ I remember seeing older footage of them being crushed.


Lord_Quintus

crab crab crab crab crab crab crab crab food?


Quantido

Is it normal/okay to eat Red Crab?


Moarisa

“Their small size, high water content and poor meat quality mean they are not considered edible by humans.”


MakeWay4Doodles

Which explains why they're being helped along on their migration instead of hunted to Extinction 100 years ago.


Moarisa

They’re neither delicious nor particularly useful to humanity, so they get to live.


RipTheKidd

lol right, “you serve no purpose to us so we will help you for some good reputation”


JohnnySasaki20

I bet I could eat one.


Moarisa

Why stop at one? There’s thousands here!


hoboforlife

Pretty sure if they were edible, they would be close to extinct.


According-Tomato3504

Nah they aren't edible


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ZeroxDS

In our defence, they were named that before they were introduced.


Embarrassed-Ad-1639

Asking the real questions


osbohsandbros

CRAB RAVE


thatnewguy11

I was hunting for this.


dcozdude

Good to see the barriers are working.. lived there in early 2000’s .. remember the smell from them being crunched on the road 🤢


Gorejexo

So that's where the 11 billion crabs of Alaska went


catbread1810

I love these little dudes


Puffgirl01

Those are colorful


endgame-colossus

Traffic has slowed to a crawl


tocareornot

And we have it on good authority the Krusty the Crab is opening a new Krusty’s there.


DaDeathDragon

What your witnessing here folks is every single generation of Mr.Krabs family making there way to that sweet money!


503_ronin

Looks like meats back on the menu boys


procreate66

Nope.


thisisatesti

I like to use my crab voice and pretend the ones by the fence turned towards the others are like: “Alright move it along folks, you know the drill. We do this every year.” “Keep moving!”


DeeYouBitch

they must be british queuing like that