Show 1 ACT MUCH LIKE MEN L hermit crabs in fierce fight atter spoil Is carried off A writer in a british periodical de scribes an encounter he saw in a large aquarium at brighton he was watching some young herrings swim ming about close to the bottom of the tank when the claw of a hermit crab suddenly shot out and caught one the capture had however been seen by another hermit crab which at once claimed a share and a most amusing chase began unable to achieve his object no 2 went oft but present ly returned with a friend with who e help it succeeded in effecting a capture but the chase had aroused the interest of the hermit crab colony and presently from fifteen to twenty ot them were engaged in a furious battle for the herring then occurred the most amusing episode of all out of the struggling gnass there crawled a hermit crab dragging the body somewhat dilapidated by now of the her ring with which it quietly retired behind a rock out of sight of its corn and proceeded to make a meal while all the others continued to fight |