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scinerds: Kiwa Puravida: Deep-Sea Yeti Crab Farms Food on Its Arms Need some snacks? Hold on I’ll grab some off my crab arms. Wait what? A thousand feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a yeti crab “farms” a colony of bacteria on its claws. To help them grow, it waves its pincers over methane and sulfide vents, fertilizing the bacteria and making them good enough to eat. The crab is a relatively new species, called Kiwa puravida, and was first discovered in 2006. Biologists from Oregon State University describe the crustacean’s smart farming behavior in the journal PLoS One.

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Kiwa Puravida: Deep-Sea Yeti Crab Farms Food on Its Arms

Need some snacks? Hold on I’ll grab some off my crab arms. Wait what?

A thousand feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a yeti crab “farms” a colony of bacteria on its claws. To help them grow, it waves its pincers over methane and sulfide vents, fertilizing the bacteria and making them good enough to eat.

The crab is a relatively new species, called Kiwa puravida, and was first discovered in 2006. Biologists from Oregon State University describe the crustacean’s smart farming behavior in the journal PLoS One.

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