So Crabby

Canada has discovered the Surly Finnish Crab. Like Finns, it gets irritable and stabby if you get within 3 meters of it.

Random fact: Apparently, there's a kind of daphnia (tiny water critter) or something that is quite common in creeks and rivers in Canada and the US -and also in one river in Denmark. Research indicated they've been in that river for about a 1000 years. Since they are strictly freshwater-only creatures, the most logical explanation is they hitched a ride in viking water barrels filled in Vinland before the vikings returned home (cleaning out their barrels of the by then pretty stale leftover water in that one Danish river).

@Anfawen

Thank you for that very interesting bit of fact!

Not to question you or anything - but do you happen to have a link to a source on this as well? I would like to read more about it, of possible.

Canada is too sweet for the world

Mess with the crabbo. Get the stabbo

PEOPLE! If your crap is green PLEASE go see you doctor immediately!

@Motlias ... this joke doesn't work as well now they corrected the spelling from crap/craps to crabs XD

I understand that both craps and crabs are available in Las Vegas.

@AttundaViking that's a good pun!

@AttundaViking Well, thanks to Brazil crabs aren't as big of a problem anymore. Remember kids, choose your trade partners carefully!

Meanwhile, news from the USA:

"The scientists are researching how water temperature and salinity might alter the crabs' behavior, according to the University of New England, and even putting crabs on treadmills to test their endurance and metabolism."

For some reason the image of a crab in a treadmill in my head made me burst with laugher

The green crabs are our answer to all those racoons, muskrats and gray squirrels which invaded Europe wrecking havoc on our ecosystems.

So give me your lunch!!!

Guess there's only one thing to be done.

Seafood party!

@ShoggothOnTheRoof Can an oil tanker be repurposed to haul clarified butter? Asking for a friend....

@TuxedoCartman I'm sure it can.

...and thus said the scientist, after being attacked by something green that was luring in the water: "oh crab!"

@ImportViking Well played.