 Class outing at ECPI am so excited and impressed by the information I found in Wikipedia that I decided to blog and share with you all about the creature! Those who were at the beach all thought that the creature is deadly and I actually screamed when I saw it!( I cant normally scream ) I was running along the water happily with Winnie when she asked me 'What is that?'. (I initially thought it was a plastic bag and it was just around 30 or 40cm beside my feet, I think I almost stepped on it man). I turned and looked and was super super shocked + scared + run away screaming to see that the creature was stuck upside down and moving all parts of its movable body (that means exclude the shell : P) to try to flip itself over (Yeah I was shocked because I think I almost stepped on it and it would be so disgusting if I did right..? Yurks) I thought I was so fortunate that I didnt run just 30 or 40 cm nearer to the water and step on the struggling creature and DIE (or many to be more precise I would YEW and OUCH and AH and faint and DIE). They were probably caught by my scream and went to see what was lying there. In the end we all stood there and watched the creature struggling hard to flip itself over and finally Yu Hong was brave to kick the head and it turned back. (Then I realised there was actually two of them, maybe mating)(Anyway they were so sweet you know like even overturn together. They could actually separate first, then one flip over and help the other one. Haha they choose to live and die together, how sweet) I was like saying 'Oh no Yu Hong later you die' to myself and I seriously thought that he might die if got 'pierce' or 'sting'? by the creature(s). I was telling my sister about the creature I saw and saying that 'the kind of creature that killed the man from Discovery channel'. She replied 'what did you see? I think it's not the same type of creature that killed the man'. So I drew out the creature and she said it's different.  The right one is the one I saw and the left one is drawn by my sister, she said that was the one that killed the man from Discovery Channel.(And it really seemed more scary to kill a man). I got interested to find out what the creature was and it was actually called Horseshoe crab. It looks like this.  MUAHAHAHAHHAHAHA..................I believe you know that this is an origami horseshoe crab right? The one(s) we saw somehow looked like this(these):   The third photo is for you to imagine how disgusting it looked when its legs were moving around. I think I'll regret putting such a picture in my blog. Yewww..The tail-tip is actually used to steer in the water and help to flip itself over when it gets stuck upside down.(And we thought it uses the tail-tip to kill its predator WAHAHAHA, and I was like really very afraid you know, I seriously thought it was the creature that killed the man from Discovery Channel) But now I know what the tail-tip is for. WAHAHAHAHHAHA I find myself so dumb hahahahaha. Oh anyway the photos are taken from Flickr.com, thanks to those who took it = ) You can read more about the weird crab(It's actually a living fossil) from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab. P.S: The blood of the crab is BLUE. Yeeee! So weird!! PPS: I just found out that 'the man from Discovery Channel' is named Steve Irwin(Sorry if you already know this..) and he died in 2006 after his chest was fatally pierced by a stingray barb whilst filming in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_irwin I feel sad after reading the details about his death. Good night. おやすみ。   |
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 Katarii かたりい Yes I am Katarii =] Katarii is my Japanese name(that I name myself, hahas) and I'm also known as Nung. I'm 14 before 22 Nov 2009 and I'm a Taiwanese. Currently studying in Raffles Girls Secondary School and I like photographing, photoshopping, drawing, eating, sleeping...=] Say Hi =D
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