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Show Crab Are Fighter. Crabs particularly aro fighting animals; ani-mals; in fact, they will fight anything. i I have seen a crab, in conflict with a lob- eter, catch tho latter over tho fore part j of the head, where tho shell is hardest, and crush it in by ono effort. And it ; rather bears ont my idea that tho cluws j of these creatures are particularly wean- j ons of war; that the moment ono of i them receives severe injury in a daw it J drops it off by voluntary (imputation, severing its connection with the body at tho shoulder by un act of its own will, i j It teems to it;o probable that if the claw 1 j wero necessary tor feeding nature would i rather seek to euro an injury to it than j let the animal discard it altogether. The species of crab which is most con-ppienously con-ppienously a fighter is the hermit crab. Its first idea of independent life is to cat a harmless whelk and occupy its shell; its next notion is to give buttle to every crab of tho same persuasion as if self that it comes across. Altogether hermit crabs are undoubtedly tho most quarrelsome creatures in existence. Interview in i Washington Star. |