okay so you know how in Moana, the crab Tamatoa refers to himself as a decapod? means ten legs. but heâs only got 8 legs visible. where the fuck is his last pair, thought me, kip edgebug.
now, tamatoa is a coconut crab. the last pair of legsâthe legs not on tamatoaâare called the fifth pereiopods. no further information was available on Wikipedia or anywhere else. no information as to why those legs would be hidden on tamatoa. bizarre, thought me, kip edgebug. also conspicuously absent was information on coconut crab reproduction, which would be useful if someone wanted to, say, write completely anatomically accurate disney-themed crab porn.
so obviously the next step was to go scholarly. i spent maybe four or five hours that evening researching coconut crabs on various difficult to navigate academic sites. turns out thereâs not a lot of public information on coconut crabs, probably because nobody wants to get close enough to a coconut crab to find out intimate info on them. i made a jstor account to access things not available to the masses.
and finally i uncovered it. the answers to both questions. I uncovered the method of coconut crab boning and the reason why tamatoaâs fifth pair of legs are invisible all in one fell swoop.
the fifth pereiopods, my friends, (get ready for this) are BANG LEGS, used for HOLDING ON to MATES during CRAB BANGING. thatâs it. thatâs why disney didnât show them. because theyâre DIRTY and SEXUAL LEGS. yknow, on a CRAB.
but kip edgebug, you cry, what does this have to do with getting together with your partner?
so on the particular dating site i was on, there was a prompt on user profiles that said âwhat do you spend a lot of time thinking about?â naturally i put âthe reproductive habits of coconut crabsâ, because, well. the next prompt was âwhat is the most embarrassing thing youâre willing to admit?â to which my answer was âdid you read the thing about the coconut crabs?â
my sweetie messaged me specifically because of those answers, god help her, and i relayed the info i uncovered, and we hit it off from there
and thatâs the story of how crab dicks are directly responsible for me and my partner getting together
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