why-animals-do-the-thing:

lyrslair:

gemification:

commie-thot:

maplebungus:

video proof that every creature is dogs

I love deep diving vids cause at least some of these animals have never seen a human before and they all so gagged.

THEY’RE SO CUTE

“Food? Food? Are you food? Is it food?”

I’ve been tagged in this a bunch, I’m but reblogging this untagged version because @lyrslair added the only accurate commentary I’ve seen on it so far. 

These are tuna crabs (which are actually a type of squat lobster, A+ naming job, science) and this is investigatory behavior. These guys spend most of their time as adults living on the seafloor on the continental shelf off of Baja, California. In deep water, most things that land on the sea floor are probably food - think whale falls - and so this is most likely them checking out the diver to see if he’s edible. Notice that they’re mostly interested in his hand, not the sea star he’s holding at the beginning. 

These are the same red crustaceans that occasionally show up en-mass around Monterey, as the adults return to the surface to spawn. 

Edited for spelling correction: Monterrey is in Mexico, but Monterery in California is where the crabs frequently appear.