Crayfish cuts off own claw to escape being boiled alive in bowl of soup

Mirror ^ | June 3, 2018 | Tim Wyatt

[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.

[mowowie]

Sea roaches...

I hate lobster....the only time i ate one was while starving in the boondocks of Jamaica, i had no choice.

to pay big money for that hard to eat muck...forget it.

[varyouga]

Impossible to know for sure but I do know they reacted to the heat and additional cutting even after cut in half. Definitely a strong frantic reaction similar to what we would do when “pain”. It was not simply writhing randomly.

IMO it is because they don’t have a central brain. It is all distributed and large pieces definitely stay alive a long time when the lobster is very fresh.

I no longer eat lobster because IMO it is not healthy to eat animals that have suffered or sat in a filthy tank. I get all my meats from farmers that I know treat animals well

[dfwgator]

LOL, my first thought, as well.

[EdnaMode]

That was one of my favorite scenes from the movie.