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it's science
can't argue with the facts
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it seems only right that the crab museum, of all things, should be anti monarchy :')
#sadly the instagram people do not understand#but also crab museum have excellent politics and are explicitly anti-cop#and pro queer etc etc and their instagram is a joy#time for crab#crab museum
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~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.
Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region
Period: Ilama Period
Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100
Medium: Ceramics
#ancient#ancient art#history#museum#archeology#ancient history#archaeology#ancient pottery#pottery#south america#crab#crab vessel#calima#Colombia#pre columbian#Ilama Period#1500 b.c.#a.d. 100
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Feeling crabby? Feast your eyes on today’s Exhibit of the Day, the Museum’s Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi). This species is the biggest living crab and the largest arthropod in the world, measuring up to 13 ft (4 m) from the tip of one outstretched leg to another! Its diet includes dead fish, invertebrates, and algae, but it occasionally snatches live prey with its strong claws. This scavenger can be found on the seafloor off Japan’s Pacific coast, inhabiting depths of more than 984 ft (300 m). You can spot a model of one in the Museum’s Hall of Ocean Life!
Photo: The American Museum Journal, Volume IV 1904
#amnh#natural history#natural history museum#american museum of natural history#giant spider crab#crab#dyk#animal facts#animals#nature#crustaceans#throwback
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ancient sea dwellers, japanese ink style 2020
#amonite#trilobite#horseshoe crab#dunkleosteus#coelacanth#isopod#nautilus#digital illustration#paleoart#paleontology#natural history museum#velozee
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How did the crab get out of prison? And why did the crab get bad grades?
The answers to these conundrums and other clawsome jokes were among the competitors for the inaugural World’s Funniest Crab Joke competition, held by the Crab Museum in Margate to celebrate International Crab Day.
The winning gag, submitted by an anonymous joker, was: “Why did the crab cross the road? It didn’t. It used the sidewalk.”
An expert panel of judges, including the comedians Harry Hill, Rose Matafeo, Sally Phillips and Phil Wang, as well as children from Ramsgate Arts primary school, scored their favourite jokes before the totals were tallied and a winner crowned.
The only rules of the contest were that the jokes should be kept PG, and that lobsters could be mentioned in the setup of the joke, but not the “pinchline”.
Organisers said that, although most of the 700 submissions did abide by the rules, several jokes “were disqualified for scientific inaccuracy, and rather a lot for lewdness”.
In an unexpected sideways move, the crabs themselves picked the winner from the four jokes ranked highest by the judges, with the help of some tinned fish in bait bags and rolled-up pieces of paper with the jokes written on them.
The twist on the classic road-crossing formula proved triumphant, and was followed in second by another variation on a classic: “Man walks into a restaurant with a crab under his arm and says, ‘Do you make crab cakes?’ Manager answers, ‘Yes, we do.’ ‘Good,’ says the man, ‘because it’s his birthday.’”
Third place was awarded jointly to: “Why didn’t the crab help the chicken cross the road? Because it was eaten by a pelican crossing,” and: “What format do you have to save photos of crab soup on to? Floppy bisque.”
A Crab Museum spokesperson said the organisers hoped the contest might inspire people into environmental activism: “The quality and quantity of jokes this year has been astounding. We’ve been pinching ourselves since the submissions closed! That said, laughing at jokes, much like learning about crabs, can be a powerful tool to help us reassess our relationship with our environment. You’d be surprised how quickly you can go from chuckling at crab gags to letting down SUV tires. Whilst we may not have made this clear to our judges, it is in this spirit that the World’s Funniest Crab Joke competition has been organised.”
The museum, which opened in 2021 and claims to be “Europe’s first and only museum dedicated to the decapod”, aims to raise awareness of the often unheralded but incredibly diverse world of crabs.
#excerpts#crabs#comedy#museums#puff piece#...#crab puffs#environment#(more jokes in link)#they probably made the right choice#though the runner up is good too
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In the car coming home from the pet store
meet the newest addition to the tank:
AHKMENRAH!!!!!
Oct died about a week ago after being nabbed from a friend who couldn’t afford to keep him
unfortunately he was not well kept and was covered in mites
And I wasn’t sure if he’d make a recovery from the neglect
I tried my best to save him but he did not.
But ahk is from a pet store unlike Oct, who was bought from one of those beach gift shops by my friend.
If you’re thinking about getting hermit crabs DO NOT buy them from those.
They are living creatures not keepsakes from a vacation.
They often have horrific conditions for the crabs and try to sell them off as almost no maintenance pets, Which they are NOT.
Part of the coolness of hermit crabs is how they breathe. They have specialized gills which are hardened and evolved to be able to take the oxygen out of the water in the air, and therefore require high humidity, or else they will DIE A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH.
OF SUFFOCATION.
if you are not home enough to spray them every few hours to keep the humidity levels above 72%, (yes you need a humidity gauge its honestly not that complicated) then you should invest in an automatic misting system. I did.
“The humidity levels for hermit crabs should be kept higher than 70% at all times. Hermit crabs breathe using modified gills rather than lungs, so when their environment is too dry it can cause severe injury, and extended periods of low humidity can even lead to death.” - Hermit Crab Association
DONT BUY PETS IF YOURE NOT PREPARED TO TAKE CARE OF THEM.
Edit:
HEY GUYS!! Check out the comments! Somebody with a bit more experience with hermies gave some advice better than me!
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For #FindsFriday, a piece to cover both #FishFriday + #FrogFriday spotted during my visit to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
Cruet for oil and vinegar
Florence, Italy, made by the Medici Factory (active 1575-87)
Soft-paste porcelain, underglaze blue decoration, 17.1 x 14 x 8.9 cm (6 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
“This rare cruet was produced at the porcelain workshop established by Grand Duke Francesco I de Medici— the first in Europe to make a convincing imitation of coveted Chinese (hard-paste) porcelain. Its experimental mixture of clay and ground glass nearly achieves the look of the real thing.”
#animals in art#european art#museum visit#Italian art#Renaissance art#decorative arts#porcelain#ceramics#fish#fishes#frog#crab#Frog Friday#Fish Friday#Finds Friday#blue and white#cruet#Florentine art#Medici Factory#Medici#Italian Renaissance#16th century art#Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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meet my new little buddy. he's a rainbow onyx hermit crab turtle.
his name is shrimp
#he came from the museum gift shop and he found his shell all by himself!!#cus it was in the same pocket he was. they belong together now#i need a tag for my own rambles#rainbow onyx#hermit crab#turtle#shrimp
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How a creature this huge can be ‘pocket crab’?! No-one has has pockets large enough for carrying this beast around!
The Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland
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Went to Strasbourg Modern Art Museum today with my sister and they had lot of stuff in jars !! Including lots of cool crustaceans !! They are cuter alive, but still are beautiful specimens even dead. Here are some pictures !
#strasbourg#alsace#crabs#shrimps#art#nature#modern art museum#taxidermy#lobsters#crustaceans#marine life#i saw it !#france#I'm not the best photographer but I put all my live into them#personal
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My NRM Visit
The other day, me and my mum embarked on a grand adventure to the National Railway Museum. Having previously tried and failed to visit on two previous occasions, we naturally made the most of our day there. I in particular took many, many photos, and there now follows but a small sample of these:
It wouldn’t be a Tumblr post without a crab, and so we start with an LMS Crab 2-6-0 - this is in fact the first of the class, LMS #13000 (later #2700).
LMS Royal Saloon #799. Originally built in 1941 as an armoured saloon for the Queen Mother, who used it to travel around the country to boost morale during the War. This saloon was used by the Royal Family right up until 1977, when the present royal train came into service.
GNR J13 0-6-0ST #1247. This was the first steam engine ever to be privately purchased direct from British Railways, in 1959. Mum for scale.
Waterloo Station 1967 by Terence Cuneo. Exactly what it says on the tin. As with all of Cuneo’s paintings, this one is crammed with all sorts of little details and cameos (including his trademark mouse, who is sitting on top of the Johnnie Walker advert to the right).
SECR D Class 4-4-0, #737. Not a whole lot to say about this one that hasn’t been said already. I just included it here to provide context for the next photo. Speaking of which:
Pullman coach Topaz, with whom #737 currently shares exhibition space. Rather than the traditional chocolate-and-cream, this Pullman carries its original crimson livery, which seems to have been the inspiration for that worn by the Pullmans seen in Thomas.
BR (SR) Merchant Navy 4-6-2 #35029, Ellerman Lines. As you can see, she’s been cut in half to more easily demonstrate how a steam locomotive works. Which is pretty neat, even if it does make for a rather grisly spectacle.
Furness #3 0-4-0, Coppernob. Also known as that engine who used to be on display in Barrow-In-Furness, and still carries literal battle scars from a 1941 air raid on that town. Also also known as Nobby, if you’re @mean-scarlet-deceiver or any of their followers.
LNER A4 4-6-2 #4468, Mallard. I couldn’t not take a photo of the world’s fastest steam engine (whose 126mph record was quantified by the dynamometer car just visible in the background).
And finally, the little blue bugger himself - specifically an RG Mitchells kiddie ride from about 1994.
#national railway museum#lms crab#royal train#gnr j52#terence cuneo#waterloo station#mouse#scer d class#pullman coach#topaz#ellerman lines#coppernob#mallard#thomas the tank engine#york
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Last batch of museum sketches. I had to draw my internet namesakes and all the hyenas, even if their spotted hyena was really weirdly taxidermied. I don’t know what’s up with that snout.
Also an anteater claw, ‘cause they’re cool :)
#animal sketches#sketches#hyenas#horseshoe crab#bearded vulture#anteater#striped hyena#aardwolf#spotted hyena#wolf#stoat#armadillo#animals#Observational Drawing#museum visit
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My favorite mount at the mini-museum: mink meets crab. I love all the details of the habitat, the story it tells, the expressions of the animals, and the fact that someone put so much effort into it all even though it's not the main piece or the most impressive animals they have. It's just such a neat piece!
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