Look, we're all into weird stuff that we only search for when using Incognito mode. That's fine. We all just agree not to talk about it. But hermit crabs do not have this luxury. Instead of quietly searching for the things that excite them in the privacy of their own shell, they've been lured out into the open by plastic waste, which apparently is leaking a plastic additive that has a pheromone-like effect on the crustaceans that gets them going. Scientists at the University of Hull in England, the voyeurs that they are, have tracked this behavior and published a paper in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin about it, kink-shaming the poor crabs.
Okay, so that's not exactly what is happening. But the truth is a little more depressing than horny crabs so why don't we live in that simple reality for just a moment longer?
