Hello friends, this issue of the article let us talk about a terrifying marine creature - the giant killer crab.
In the deep Pacific Ocean outside Japan, there is a large arthropod that lurks here. It is said that due to the long-term nuclear radiation of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, especially since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in 2011, it has gradually become huge and fierce, and will actively attack large prey and even humans.
It is known by fishermen as a giant killer crab.
This giant killer crab is like a huge poisonous spider living in the sea, with very long legs, opening up to 4 meters.
It is rumored that its size was not so large, but it became so large that it even became cruel after being affected by the radiation of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
In search of prey, the killer crab will float silently on the surface of the sea, revealing only two telescope-like eyes, while using the sensors in the body to distinguish objects moving on the surface of the sea.
Once it finds someone or a large prey nearby, it will sneak past in a surprise manner, with 8 sharp claws to wrap around the desperately struggling prey, and then use two large and hard crab claws to attack the body of the prey, until the prey can not move and scale all over the body, and then it will cling to the prey and sink into the sea.
According to local fishermen, since 1990, dozens of fishermen have been buried in crab mouths along the coast of Japan.
This giant killer crab will usually cunningly launch a sneak attack on the fishermen in small boats, and when people are not ready, they will suddenly wave a powerful claw and drag the person into the water.
One of the most famous incidents occurred in July 2003, when a young Japanese fisherman, Shohei Shirai, and several partners went out to sea in four small fishing boats to fish.
This generation of seas is rich in expensive Japanese salmon, but due to the recent sharp decline in fry, the government has banned the use of drift gillnet fishing. However, Shirai Xiangping and several young fishermen decided to ignore the ban and secretly put down their gillnets to fish for money.
Just as they were secretly fishing and getting rich, one of the pulled-up quillnets followed the monster, which seemed to come from hell, and suddenly clamped his arms with two huge crab claws from behind Shirai Shohei's back.
Shirai Shohei's scream of pain fell into the sea, and another fisherman in the same boat heard this sudden shout and did not know what was happening.
When he saw Shirai Shohei falling into the sea, he quickly called 3 nearby fishing boats to rush to the rescue. Soon, through the clear water, they saw that 5 meters under the water, Shirai Shohei was being held by a giant crab and slowly sinking into the deep sea.
A fisherman found that the cancer crab was just entangled in the flow net, and it was difficult to get out for a while, so he immediately picked up one end of the flow net and quickly dragged the flow net up.
The fishermen on the boat did not care much, and immediately cut the flowing gill net with a knife and beat the killer crab with a tool to the death.
In the end, the killer crab finally let go of Shirai Shohei.
A few days later, a fisherman named Tsuichi Miura was also attacked by a killer crab while fishing offshore in Osaka Bay. He was pinned to his left arm by one of the killer crabs, and then dragged hard into the sea.
Fortunately, he held back the pain and grabbed the side of the ship with his right hand and shouted for help, but was found by the fishermen in the same boat in time, and quickly picked up the wooden stick and fought hard to kill the human crab. Under the repeated blows, the killer crab's big ao was knocked off and unwillingly dived into the sea.
Miura Tsuichi finally recovered a life, but the broken crab was still clamped on to his arm, and it was not until the knife was delivered that the crab was removed.
The above description of the horror of the killing crab, combined with its huge size and long feet, made him notorious as a man-eating beast.
But these are all fabricated rumors on the Internet, in fact, it is not as terrible as these Online rumors say.
The killer crab' real name is the Gan-style giant crab, also known as the Japanese spider crab, although it is indeed the largest known crustacean in the world, but it is not so terrifying and fierce.
The body of the Gan-style giant crab is dark orange, with 10 signature long legs and white spots on them, and the first two have developed into a pair of large jaws.
At present, the largest sample found by humans, its legs are up to 4.2 meters long, but its body length is only 38 centimeters and weighs 20 kilograms.
They have a long lifespan of up to 100 years, and are mainly distributed in the Pacific Ocean beyond The Prefecture of Yanshou in Japan to the northeast corner of Taiwan, at a depth of 500 to 1,000 meters, and use various fish as a food source.
Therefore, the Gan-style giant crab actually lives in the deep sea, so it is a rumor that they will attack fishing boats.
So why is it called a killer crab?
Although their appearance is indeed amazing, in fact, although they are large, they have a gentle temperament, and they have never killed anyone at all.
The reason why there is such a title is because its English common name is dead man crab, which means crab that eats the corpse of a dead person, so in the translation process, it is not known whether it was mistakenly translated or intentionally, and it was translated as a killer crab. Coupled with its terrifying shape of a large long foot, the Gan-style giant crab has been saddled with such a terrible notoriety.
Like most other crabs, the Gan-style giant crab is an omnivorous scavenger that spends most of the day crawling on the ocean floor, feeding on small animals and plant detritus that die on the seabed. But they also occasionally take the initiative to prey on small animals such as live fish and shrimp, and even sharks are one of its food sources.
But in any case, it will not eat humans, and it is not correct to say that it has no ability to eat humans. Therefore, the scene mentioned above where the fisherman catches it when he catches it while fishing, and it goes to prey on humans after getting on the boat is impossible.
Because the Gan-style giant crab lives in the deep sea, the pressure difference between the deep sea and the sea surface is more than 50 times, so most of them will die immediately because there is no process of decompression when they are caught ashore.
The other is that it can't swim at all, it forages on the bottom of the sea by walking, and its movement is very slow, of course, it is impossible to actively float to the surface or even attack humans.
Others say that nuclear radiation causes their body size to mutate, which is even more nonsense. Although Japanese scholars did detect excessive radioactive elements in the body of the Gan-style giant crab, there was no mutation.
Its size has actually been this size since its discovery in the 19th century, and there is no significant hugeness, so the nuclear radiation mutation is just the fantasy of some people.
In fact, the origin of spider crabs can be traced back to prehistoric times, and in 2013, researchers discovered the oldest spider crab species in fossil reefs in northern Spain.
The oldest species of spider crab lived on Earth about 100 million years ago, so the Gan-style giant crab has actually existed for a long time, although it is mistakenly called a killer crab, but in fact, the gentle Gan-style giant crab is the victim.
Because of its delicious taste, it is often hunted by humans, so it is human food. Overfishing has also led to a gradual decline in the number of populations, and Japan has now banned the capture of them during breeding from January to April by law.
The Gan-style giant crab has become a terrifying killer crab through the whimsical fabrication on the Internet, and then adding some exaggerated fictional stories, but in fact, humans are their natural enemies.
We humans live in this colorful world, and the continuous progress of science and technology has made our lives more and more convenient, but at the same time, there are countless kinds of creatures that have withdrawn from the stage forever in our time. Therefore, as we continue to make progress, we should also reflect on how to coexist in harmony with other creatures.
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