Crabs, other predators and parasites such as worm larvae may produce traumatic attacks and cause injuries in which some external mantle tissue cells are disconnected from their layer.

Crabs ' and lobsters ' pincers, or more formally, their " chelae ", are sometimes called claws.

Crabs are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton, composed primarily of calcium carbonate, and armed with a single pair of chelae ( claws ).

Crabs are found in all of the world's oceans, while many crabs live in fresh water and on land, particularly in tropical regions.

Crabs are mostly active animals with complex behaviour patterns.

Crabs are omnivores, feeding primarily on algae, and taking any other food, including molluscs, worms, other crustaceans, fungi, bacteria and detritus, depending on their availability and the crab species.

Crabs are known to work together to provide food and protection for their family, and during mating season to find a comfortable spot for the female to release her eggs.

Crabs are prepared and eaten as a dish in several different ways all over the world.

Crabs are often boiled alive.

Among the species on display are Leafcutter Ants, Zebra Longwing Butterflies, Orange Julia Butterflies, Honeybees, Diving Beetles, Madagascan Hissing Cockroaches, Black Widow Spiders, Golden Orb Spiders, Goliath Tarantulas, Chambered Nautilus, Giant Pacific Octopus, Common Cuttlefish, Clown Mantis Shrimp, Pacific Hermit Crabs, Blue Crabs, American Lobsters and various different species of Sea Anemones, Coral and Sea Stars.

Formed in 1998, ( though there has been a local side dating from the 19th century which later folded of the same name ), the club are nicknamed " the Vikings " or the Scab or sometimes even the Crabs and team play in red and white strips.

Crabs, squid, shrimp, and whelks are also caught.

There are also " touch tanks " in a facility called the Sea Pavilion where visitors are permitted to handle North Atlantic Lobster, Snow Crabs, Rock Crabs, Clams ( also known as Pea Clams ), Sea Urchins, Sea Cucumbers, and other species.

Crabs are, like lobsters and shrimp, members of the Decapoda.

To this day, the Heike Crabs found in the Straits of Shimonoseki are considered by the Japanese to hold the spirits of the Taira warriors.

* Sherman Crab-Sherman Crabs are displayed at the CFB Borden Military Museum, Ontario, Canada ; the Bovington Tank Museum, the Yad La-Shiryon museum in Israel and the Overloon War Museum in the Netherlands.

Crabs are caught in pots by both professionals and amateurs, prawns are caught by small trawlers and sold ready cooked at the quays.

Crabs on a trotline are not hooked, they are simply netted by the waterman at the surface, with the workboat moving slowly enough through the water that the crab does not discern movement as it eats the bait.

Crabs may also exhibit nine doublets, ( see picture ).

Soldier Crabs ( Mictyris longicarpus ), Semaphore Crab ( Heloecius cordiformis ), Blue Swimmer Crabs ( Portunus pelagicus ) and Hermit Crabs ( Pagurus sinuatus ) also call the mangroves home.

The local soccer team Baltimore Fc also known as the Crabs were established in 2006.

There is also a version of the Crabs song using the same soundtrack, using Garry's Mod for Half-Life 2.

* Crabs of the genus Ocypode, also commonly known as ghost crabs

Commercial fishing is also an important part of the economy, with scalefish and Blue Swimmer Crabs accounting for much of the catch.

Alligators, Turtles, Tortoises, Fiddler, Horseshoe and Blue Crabs also inhabit Mosquito Lagoon.

The endangered species that live within the Sundarbans and extinct species that used to be include the Royal Bengal Tigers, Estuarine Crocodile, Northern river terrapins ( Batagur baska ), Olive Ridley Turtles, Gangetic dolphin, Ground Turtles, Hawks Bill Turtles and King Crabs ( Horse shoe ).

In his short story " Crabs on the Island " ( 1958 ) Anatoli Dneprov speculated on the idea that since the replication process is never 100 % accurate, leading to slight differences in the descendants, over several generations of replication the machines would be subjected to evolution similar to that of living organisms.

Small numbers of green turtles nest on the beaches, and Hermit Crabs abound.

Crabs, insects and shorebirds feed on these beach dwellers.

Crabs and fish find their way in, and attract children fishing equipped with a piece of bacon on a string.

After that season, long-time manager Butch Hobson left the Pride to take the managerial job with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League, while former Boston Red Sox outfielder Rick Miller was hired as manager in Nashua.

The Tampa Yankees defeated the Charlotte Stone Crabs 3-2 in the Florida State League Championship Series.

Crabs vary in size from the pea crab, a few millimetres wide, to the Japanese spider crab, with a leg span of up to.

Crabs often show marked sexual dimorphism.

Crabs tend to be aggressive towards one another and males often fight to gain access to females.

Crabs make up 20 % of all marine crustaceans caught, farmed, and consumed worldwide, amounting to 1½ million tonnes annually.

In addition to the aforementioned, Riverside is home to Klein's Supermarket, now known as Shop Rite, the sole grocery store ; plus Hair Cuttery, Riverside Pizzeria, Riverside Liquors, China Moon Chinese restaurant, Wye Knot Crabs, Bliss Coffee & Wine Bar, H & R Block, Rite-Aid, Subway and, in the summer, a snowball stand.

Established in 2001, Ripken Baseball represents Cal's and his brother Billy's business and philanthropy dealings and focuses on several subsidiaries: Ripken Management and Design, Youth Camps and Clinics, Cal Ripken, Sr. foundation, Ripken Professional Baseball, with three minor-league teams — the Aberdeen IronBirds ( affiliated with the Orioles ); the Augusta GreenJackets ( affiliated with the San Francisco Giants ); and the Charlotte Stone Crabs ( affiliated with the Tampa Bay Rays ).

* Caribbean Cove: Open during the warmer months, the Caribbean Cove is a shallow touch-pool underneath a large tent that features Cownose Rays, Southern stingrays, Nurse Sharks, Bamboo Sharks, and Horseshoe Crabs.

All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.

We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

Among measures in anticipation of crisis are plans to inject into the turmoil as assistants of key decision makers qualified persons who are cognizant of the corrosive effect of crisis upon personal relationships and are also able to raise calm and realistic voices when overburdened leaders near the limit of self-control.

Very likely it will also include a recognition that the work we are reading reflects or `` belongs to '' some way of thought labelled as a `` school '' or an `` -ism '', i.e. a complex or `` syndrome '' of ideas occurring together with sufficient prominence to warrant identification.

Greek boys and girls also go for rock-and-roll, and the stations most tuned to are those carrying United States overseas programs.

They both measure literature by moral standards, and in their political writings both allow for censorship, but the differences between them are also significant.

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

Occupational choices are also useful -- and interesting -- in bringing out clearly that values do not constitute the only component in goals and aspirations.

The students who are most willing to acquiesce in the suppression of civil liberties are also those who are most likely to be prejudiced against minority groups, to be conformist and traditionalistic in general social attitudes, and to lack a basic faith in people.

This finding is consistent also with the fact that student leaders are more likely to be supporters of the values implicit in civil liberties than the other students.

In this sense also, they are surely conformists.

Of course I hope Hal can also, but those hopes are much more faint ''.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

But I will also remind them that I have always been inclined to skepticism, to a kind of Laodicean lack of commitment so far as public affairs are concerned ; ;