Fred's Fun Fact: Hermit Crabs!

Listen to this fun fact about hermit crabs!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread Show is on it Fread's Fun Fact Fred's Fun.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Learn them so much. Okay, so I had to read
this a couple of times, so I'm gonna go slowly.
But this is very sweet. So this is from somebody
posted his name Melody and then insta single put it up.
So I'm giving credit where credit is due. So you
may have just read this, but if not, I just
found out that if a hermit crab finds a bigger shell,

(00:30):
it'll explore it and see if it can fit, and
if the shell's too big, it'll wait by the shell
for up to eight hours as other crabs come along
to try it out. As they realize it's too big
for them as well, they queue up next to the
shell and form a line from biggest crab to smallest,
and they all wait for the crab that's a perfect fit,

(00:51):
and then they all exchange shells in a sequence, so
everybody gets a new home. We could learn a lot
from that. Is that nice? Yes? So it's like, hey,
this doesn't work, so I won't keep it for myself.
It works better for you, but then yours will work
great for me, so I'll take that one, and so
on and so forth. Isn't that nice? Yes, made me

(01:14):
feel kind of warm and fuzzy inside, which is it
doesn't happen very often.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
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