Posted on 06/06/2018 2:03:30 PM PDT by Red Badger
The crayfish cut its own claw of to survive being boiled alive (Picture: Jiuke) _______________________________________________________________________
A crayfish made a remarkable bid for freedom after cutting off its own claw to escape a boiling pot of soup.
The desperate animal was filmed sacrificing its own limb to survive being boiled alive at a restaurant in China.
Posted on Chinese social media site Weibo by a user called Jiuke, the crayfish is seen struggling to escape the spicy soup.
The heroic crayfish then slices off its own claw before wriggling away to freedom.
The clip has racked up more than a million views online, with people urging Jeiku to rescue the crayfish and spare its life.
One wrote: ‘Don’t eat him, seeing how hard he’s trying to survive’.
Jeiku replied: ‘I let him live. I already took him home and am raising him in an aquarium.’
China is reported to be the world’s largest source of crayfish, following a surge in popularity as a delicacy in recent years.
Introduced to the country to feed bullfrogs, the creatures were originally thought of as a pest by rice famers.
But a recent shift in dining trends has seen the attitudes drastically change.
Crayfish are immensely popular in China now, which has resulted in a huge increase in crayfish restaurants and farms.
Production has tripled in just under 10 years, from 265,500 tonnes in 2007 to 852,300 tonnes in 2016.
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“Les poissons, les poissons how I love les poissons.....”
I would cut off my fingernail to save myself from being boiled alive.
Loves me some crawdads.
The wife and I can slay some crawdad....and beer!
Gotta place down here in Houston that fix’m real spicy, lotsa swamp dust. Ewww weee
Was that claw ‘coyote ugly’?
Ha!
Yuuuuuummmmm!
It is not uncommon for a Crayfish to loose a claw. And the wonderful part is that they actually grow back.
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