Hermit crabs don’t send text messages while scurrying, but human technology may be distracting them all the same.
FATAL DISTRACTION? A Caribbean hermit crab may get distracted by blasts of noise and slow down at picking up cues that danger’s approaching. Grook Da Oger/Wikimedia Commons
SCARE SHIRT A crab’s eye view of science as done by UCLA students: Alvin Chan (center) and Paulina Giraldo-Perez (right) prepare to swing their mock-predator t-shirt toward a crab as Sonja Smith (left) notes when the crab decides to hide.
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