The post received nearly 40,000 upvotes and over 1,000 comments.
The internet is full of heartwarming animal videos. Be it a human helping an animal or an animal helping another animal, such clips usually take social media users by surprise. Now, one such video showing horseshoe crabs helping each other is winning hearts online.
Shared on Reddit, the short clip shows a horseshoe crab displaying social behavior by trying to bring another upside down horseshoe crab up again. “Horseshoe crab flips over another horseshoe crab,” read the caption of the post, which garnered nearly 40,000 upvotes and more than 1,000 comments.
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The undated video made the internet go “ooh”. In the comments section, while one user said, “Teamwork at its best,” another simply wrote, “Helper friends”.
“Everyone and everything is capable of mercy,” remarked the third. “What an incredible creature,” added the fourth.
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Horseshoes are not technically crabs. They are much more closely related to arachnids such as spiders and ticks than to true crabs. They are part of the subphylum Chelicerata and are further classified in the class Merostomata, which includes species of horseshoe crab as well as eurypterids (sea scorpions).
Marine arthropods got their name from their horseshoe-shaped exoskeleton, called a carapace. They also have a tail, called a telson, which is not venomous or venomous and is primarily used to propel and propel themselves when trapped on their backs.
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Meanwhile, speaking of crabs, earlier this year, scientists discovered a creepy new types of crabs Which hides itself from the hair of other sea creatures. Experts say that the crab uses hair to protect itself from other predators. They make a coat by trimming the living sponge using their claws.
The type of crab is named Lamarckdromea beagle after Charles Darwin’s ship. It belongs to the Dromiidae family, commonly known as sponge crabs.
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