This makes the plot of Another Crab’s Treasure even zanier. (It’s about a hermit crab whose shell is repossessed by the local king)
There oughta be a law!
Also one can help them in this process:
https://www.hermitcrabanswers.com/finding-shells-for-hermit-crabs/
I saw a post a few weeks back about a guy who found replacement shells for hermit crabs that had adopted bottle caps and other plastic trash. Truly superheroic!
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but tHiNk Of AlL tHe LoSt ShArEhOlDeR vAlUe ThO!?
Seriously though, if crabs used currency this would never happen. There would be one crab with all the shells and the other crabs would have to bring food offerings or whatever their currency would be in order to get one.
Surprisingly they don’t have that much of the market.
I counted the word “institutional” used almost once per sentence. There were a couple of sentences that didn’t use it, but there was at least one sentence that used it twice. Plus all the figures and captions for them too.
Though despite being not “institutional”, the market seems to have behaved a little as if it were, due to use of software to fix prices at what the landlords believed that the market would bear. So still price gouging, regardless of whether done by individuals or giant mega-corporations.
Though still a good point that the article makes.
An animal named a hermit crab has better social relationships than humans I’m so pissed.
They also duke it out if two crabs want the same shell. I recall one video where two crabs were goin round the outside when a third one just moves into the shell. Hilarious at scale, but I bet the first two were pissed. Good thing they weren’t pistol shrimp.
