I woke up this morning, like every other morning and let Lina out my back door on her leash. After a few minutes, like most mornings, she started barking and unlike most mornings, I went to see why. I’m quite glad I did because what I found out there was pretty shocking. A GIANT HERMIT CRAB! Well, not giant, but quite large, much larger than any I have ever seen before. (Check out photos on the photo website.)
As I looked at the hermit crab, I couldn’t help but wonder from where it had come. I will happily acknowledge that I am but 30 minutes from the coast, but still, that’s quite a long way for a little animal. Could a bird have carried it?
Am I suggesting hermit crabs migrate?
Not at all. They could be carried.
What? A swallow, carrying a hermit crab?
It could grip it by the husk.
It’s not a question of where he grips it. It’s a simple question of weight ratios. A 5 ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound hermit crab.
Well it doesn’t matter.
Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
Please!Am I right?
I’m not interested.
It could be carried by an African swallow.
Oh yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow, that’s my point.
Oh yeah I agree with that.
But then of course, the African swallows are non-migratory.
Oh yeah.
So they couldn’t bring a hermit crab anyway.
Wait a minute, supposing two swallows carried it together?
No, they’d have to have it on a line.
Well simple! They just use a strand of tree bark.
What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
Well why not?
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Very true. Non migratory swallows are a factor.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses! Not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. I mean, if I went 'round saying I was King because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
mmm some good ole monty python humor...
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