On one of our days away, we took an excursion to a nearby island, where we watched an improbably large hermit crab slowly make its way across the sand, dragging its enormous shell. Nearby, lizards of ...

The hermit crabs were reliable, though not exactly swift. They tended to hide in the shadows until they had a reason not to. I’m not sure if they were attracted by the smell or the sound or the ...

A closer look and you discover it’s caused by a cluster of small hermit crabs in their screw-shell homes, having an almighty brouhaha as they tried to muscle their way into each other’s residences.

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