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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

That guy may even choose his house. : )

hermit crab

Hermit crabs ... have adapted to occupy empty scavenged mollusc shells to protect their fragile exoskeletons.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But unfortunately, the ocean housing market has been facing a crisis, and a lot of them are finding themselves having to live in plastic waste.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is using plastic waste necessarily disadvantageous to them? Maybe they choose to us some plastic containers over mollusc shells? (Serious question)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From what I've read, they often get trapped in human-made containers and die. The containers are also often less resistant and durable. However, it seems to be still unclear why they do that, if purely by lack of proper shells, or if they see some advantage in some containers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, that does indeed sound bad :( Thanks for the answer!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

He's got bonus legs! Quadrupedalism is for suckers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

And he has many legs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Unlike humans, who are notoriously limited in their housing choices by an evolutionary disadvantage known generally as, "the market."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

It seems legs are not the defining feature when it comes to housing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Now, turn it 45 degrees and put a different colored square behind each one

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Communism is when no leg, no house

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Anarchist gang calls dibs on legs and house

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Or overlapping circles

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Turtles: The Pinnacle of Evolution.

Waiting on the inevitable "wait til you hear about crabs" response 😁

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

wait til you hear about crabs!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Where Saddam Hussein? He has house and legs, both can be seen in the only picture of Saddam Hussein.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Babe, wake up! New political compass just dropped!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Missed opportunity for a sweet Venn diagram.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I object! A truth table would be a much superior representation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Love me some AND gates

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does it bother anybody else that the snail's label is backwards? It should be no legs, house.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I guess, they swapped it, because people might misread it as both 'legs' and 'house' being negated...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

me on the left

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's missing the popular, aquatic category of Crab models.

✅ Legs ✅ House ✅ Fully/Semi Aquatic

Then again at that point you'd need to break it down by species...