All about the Hermit Crab

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All about the Hermit Crab

• By Fiona M.

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What it Looks Like
Hermit crabs are about 2 cm wide. They have red
antennae, blue and white stripes on the legs and
are a little hairy.

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Where it Lives
You can find hermit crabs anywhere from the
British Columbia to Mexico in tidepools.

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What it Eats

• Hermit crabs eat detritus.

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What Eats it

• Things that eat hermit crabs include octopi, sea
  birds, yellowfin tuna, and sometimes even sea
  turtles!

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Threats

• Some threats to hermit crabs are when people take
  shells off the beach and pollution.

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Amazing Facts

• Hermit crabs wear used shells and have to move
  into new shells when they get too big for their
  old shells.