Crabs
 Although
you may eat crabs at home, you wouldn't catch these crabs to eat. Children
catch crabs in buckets, then let them go at a
few minuets later.
Crabs come in many colours and sizes. They have legs for walking and two
pincers at the front for grabbing food and fighting. A crab can see in every
direction because its eyes turn around on two stalks on its head.
Collecting crabs on the beach is fun, you will mostly find them in the
rock pools, left behind when the tide is out. Don't pick up the big crabs,
those pincers can hurt your fingers, normally you pick up a crab from its
back so that your fingers are out of the way :)
True crabs have five pairs of legs, the first of
which are modified into a pair of claws and are not used for locomotion.
There are almost 5,000 different species of crabs; about 4,500 are true
crabs, plus about 500 are hermit crabs (hermit crabs don't have a very hard
shell and use other animals' old shells for protection). Most crabs live in
the oceans, but many, like the robber crab, live on land.
Some of the more common and traditional things to be found at the beach
Bucket & spade
Cockles
Crabs
Jellyfish
Kites
Mussels
Pebbles
Pier
Promenade
Sand
Seagulls
Seaweed
Shells
Windbreak |
