Okay, but LISTEN. You guys don't understand. This pic doesn't do it justice.
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This fucking parasite invades the crab and when it does so it injects it's own cells into the crab's lymph system. It also has little tiny spear-like "roots" that it uses to burrow away inside the crab.
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It uses these to suck up the crab's nutrients until the crab reaches a point it can't even summon enough nutrients to grow anymore. At this point the parasite dangles part of itself out of the bottom of the crab - where a female crab's egg-sac or whatever would be. Male crabs actually end up having their pelvises widen to support this stupid sac.
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And then this sac tries to attract a male parasite (because only the females infest the crabs). Once a male finds her, he joins the sac for life, and essentially becomes a giant testicle, forever re-fertilizing the female and producing more of the damn parasite
They even look like a damn set of testicles hanging outside the crab's body, and if that's not the worst thing you've heard all day I don't want to know what is
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https://cdn1.theinertia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/barnacle-balls.jpg
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And the stupid crab doesn't even know what to do, because this parasite fucks it up so much, it actually ends up trying to groom and care for the parasite-testicle-sac
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This fucking parasite invades the crab and when it does so it injects it's own cells into the crab's lymph system. It also has little tiny spear-like "roots" that it uses to burrow away inside the crab.
.
It uses these to suck up the crab's nutrients until the crab reaches a point it can't even summon enough nutrients to grow anymore. At this point the parasite dangles part of itself out of the bottom of the crab - where a female crab's egg-sac or whatever would be. Male crabs actually end up having their pelvises widen to support this stupid sac.
.
And then this sac tries to attract a male parasite (because only the females infest the crabs). Once a male finds her, he joins the sac for life, and essentially becomes a giant testicle, forever re-fertilizing the female and producing more of the damn parasite
.
https://cdn1.theinertia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/barnacle-balls.jpg
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And the stupid crab doesn't even know what to do, because this parasite fucks it up so much, it actually ends up trying to groom and care for the parasite-testicle-sac