The Uber of Crabs? Two Spider Crabs Form a Mating Pair After Migrating en Masse to Melbourne

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<p>Normally spider crabs don’t migrate to the southern Australian coast until May-July</a>, but the summer of love came early for these two crabs who formed a mating pair near Melbourne on March 4.</p><p>PT Hirschfield told Storyful, “Out of the hundreds of thousands of spider crabs in Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne, this little guy has found the girl of his dreams! … So he’s decided to carry her around until [she] [ moults</a>] … Sort of like Uber for spider crabs – the ULTIMATE Taxi Crab!”.</p> <p>Female spider crabs only mate after moulting, and male crabs often protect their mates until that happens. Credit: PT Hirschfield via Storyful</p>