Monitoring from Space Shows Even This Giant Crab Can Navigate Better than You

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By Elizabeth Preston
Nov 20, 2012 5:40 AMNov 5, 2019 12:20 AM

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It was crabnapping for a just cause. But the crustaceans that found themselves suddenly plucked from their burrows, stuffed into opaque sacks, and carried off through the forest couldn't know that. When the scientists freed their captives, they waited to see whether the crabs would find their way home or be stranded forever. They'd be watching—from space.

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