Ilnw emotions bring' about unusual activity in animals was demonstrate'] recently. It was shown that a crab {ottered by -one diw and left .with food j,ust out of reach will resignedly starve to death. Hut put a polyp, flic crab’s most deadly enemy, nearby, and the prisoner crab will be convulsed with fear. Excitement racing through its nerves will send a violent shock to the tied claw, and the claw will come off, sc that the crab caii .scuttle off to safety.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20385, 17 April 1928, Page 13
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