How do crabs breathe?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Did you know there are thousands of different species of crabs on Earth? Most of them live in water, but there are plenty of species that can live outside the water, too. So how do crabs breathe, both in the water and on land? We asked biologist and science communicator Sarah McAnulty to help us find the answer.
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| 0:32.0 | this is the moment of um. Moment of Um, um, um, um, come to you from APN studios. I'm Ruby Guthrie. |
| 0:49.2 | Um... I must admit, I've been a little bit stressed out lately so I've been taking some time |
| 0:59.0 | each day to do some deep breathing. |
| 1:05.0 | Each time I like to take an imaginary journey to somewhere new. |
| 1:08.8 | Yesterday it was a little brain vacation under the sea. I imagine that I felt weightless in the warm |
| 1:15.0 | ocean water with a bubble of air around me keeping me totally safe. As I |
| 1:21.2 | drifted through a forest of gently waving seaweed, I saw hundreds of colorful little fishes swimming every which way. |
| 1:29.0 | I settled down onto the sandy seabed, closed my eyes, and took some more deep breaths. |
| 1:36.7 | When I opened my eyes, I realized I was surrounded by dozens of little cute crabs, and I thought, hey, why don't we all do some deep breathing exercises together |
| 1:47.8 | but then I wondered do crabs even have lungs like I do? |
| 1:53.1 | How do they breathe? |
| 1:55.0 | Listener Dot was curious about this too. |
| 1:57.0 | So crabs are really special because they for the most part can breathe |
| 2:06.0 | underwater and then they also can leave the water and do both. My name is |
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