Speaking of crab, naturally the word "delicious" comes to mind.
Crab is a precious delicacy given to us by nature. People love its fresh and sweet taste. When the thick crab paste collides in the mouth, the pleasure and happiness the delicacy brings to people are caused by This begins.
As far as crabs are concerned, there are many types. Currently, there are 4,700 known crab species in the world. There are more than 800 species in our country alone, and the most rare thing is that most of them are Some crabs are edible.
Although we don’t know who was the first person to eat crabs, we are grateful to the person who had the courage to try crabs. Because of his practice, we have a delicious food in the world.
In the waters of Japan, there lives a very special kind of crab, which is the "King of Crabs".
The "King of Crabs" invades Japan, with a size exceeding 4 meters
This is a kind of crab nicknamed "Killer Crab", which lives in the southeastern coastal areas of Japan. In the sea, local fishermen accidentally discovered it when they went out to sea.
The killer crab is a very dangerous giant crab. Its original name is the giant claw crab. Its prototype is the spider crab family. Therefore, some people also call it the Japanese spider crab or the tall crab because its legs are really big. Very similar to spiders.
The killer crab is the largest known extant crustacean in the world. The average extended length of the adult killer crab’s chelipeds is 2.5 to 3 meters, the rear four pairs of legs are 2.1 to 2.4 meters, and the shell width is 25 to 33 meters. centimeter.
It is understood that someone previously captured a very large spider crab in the waters of Japan. The total length of the body and legs was 4.2 meters, of which the body was only 38 centimeters, and the rest were all feet. This whole cancer crab weighs more than 40 kilograms. For a crab, its weight is indeed too fat. Because of this, people call the killer crab the "King of Crabs."
However, they usually like to live in the deep sea of ??50-600 meters, so regardless of whether the killer crab is edible or not, it is not easy to see it even in ordinary times. Perhaps it is precisely because of living in the deep sea that it has the opportunity to grow so big.
What’s interesting is that the killer crab is not a species native to Japan. In the early days, there were no killer crabs in Japan. Scientists speculate that these killer crabs may have come from the United States. With the development of maritime trade, they secretly hid on ships and traveled across the ocean to come here.
People’s biggest misunderstanding about “killer crabs” is that killer crabs do not actually harm humans
In fact, there are many legends about killer crabs, just like its nickname “killer crabs”. "Crab" is actually the biggest misunderstanding that people have about it.
There are rumors in Japan that from 1990 to 2014, 34 fishermen and 26 tourists were killed by killer crabs along the coast of Yokohama, Japan alone.
However, the fact is that killer crabs do not actually have the ability to kill. Killer crabs, in fact, should be called corpse crabs. They like to feed on decaying animal corpses. Being called "killer crabs" is actually a misinformation.
Their characters are relatively gentle, and researchers also said that "killer crabs" are actually easy to get along with, and they perform quite well in a captive environment and will not harass or harm their companions. In aquariums, The museum is very popular.