Posted on 06/03/2018 6:16:12 PM PDT by EdnaMode
This is the remarkable moment a crayfish escaped certain death in a bowl of soup - by chopping off one of its claws.
A video posted on the Chinese social media site Weibo showed the small crustacean struggling out of a bowl of piping hot spicy soup.
But the creature realised one of its claws was slowing its escape and without any hesitation used its other claw to slice it off and wriggle free.
The dramatic footage, posted by a user called Jiuke, has now been shared around the world and viewed more than a million times.
Many Weibo users had called for the resourceful crayfish to be shown mercy.
One said "Let him go" and another wrote "don't eat him, seeing how hard he's trying to survive", the Taiwan News website reported.
But Jiuke said he had already decided to let the inventive crustacean live.
"I let him live, I already took him home and am raising him in an aquarium," he replied.
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This isn’t fun to read.
“”don’t eat him, seeing how hard he’s trying to survive”,
Damn wuss. All fish I know of were “trying to survive” once I took my fish hook off their mouths LOL. They’ll give up once gutted and brought to the frying pan..
Coyote ugly, and now crawdad ugly!!
Breed him. The survival instinct is strong.
And yet in a bucket of crabs, other doomed crabs will pull those trying to escape back in again.
Same is true of some troubled communities when a liberty minded individual tries to leave...
Or just harvest the claws...
All creatures want to live. This one does seem smarter than most like it.
When a baby survives an abortion attempt, the Left doesn’t want to admit it is alive (and no longer attached to the woman, so the body argument does not hold) and will still kill it as some sort of sub-human “thing”.
Trief.
I have never understood why lobsters aren’t just killed before boiling. But what do I know? Lobstetrs don’t even look appetizing to me anyway.
” Lobstetrs don’t even look appetizing to me anyway.”
Big bugs of the sea! But tasty! I told my BIL they looked like big bugs, and ha won’t eat them anymore. His loss, my gain!
There is such a psychological flaw and sickness in humans who will sympathize for a creature but will allow the murdering of the baby even born ALIVE.
“I have never understood why lobsters aren’t just killed before boiling. But what do I know? Lobstetrs don’t even look appetizing to me anyway.”
It’s impossible to quickly kill a lobster except by boiling or electocution. At least the ones that are truly alive straight from the sea and not sitting half-dead in a tank for a month.
I’ve lived in the FL keys and would grill fresh ones at the dock side. I’ve cut the heads off and cut the entire body in half lengthwise. The halves would still fight your tools and try to escape from the grill. They definitely felt the fire until cooked.
IMO, there is no way to kill a lobster without it suffering. They do not lose consciousness like fish or other animals with spinal cords.
I don’t really get it either. Maybe they kill it by boiling it so it is as fresh as possible. What difference would it make to cut the head off just before throwing it into the pot though?
Some people believe the fear a creature feels just before dying sends something into the meat to make it taste less good or even bad.
I’m a meat eater and love seafood, especially shellfish, but it has gotten so expensive I hardly eat much of it anymore. Probably for the best health wise.
“Breed him. The survival instinct is strong.”
Just what we need, runaway food.
It’s bad enough I have to get dressed to go to the drive-thru, now I’m gonna have to chase the sh!t down the street.
To paraphrase an old pig joke, a crab like that, you don’t eat him all at once.
Do you think they feel pain as much as a vertebrate? I mean I always thought the writhing certain lower creatures do after they die wasn’t dependent on them still feeling, but a simple reaction of the muscles.
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