WATCH: Moving house? Join the hermit crab conga line

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 19:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Everyone hates moving day, but there's a pretty slim chance you'll end up cooked to death in your own juices if things don't go your way. As this new David Attenborough footage reveals, if a hermit crab wants to upgrade its shell, it had better join and queue and stand its ground, or this conga line of hand-me-down homes will be the worst thing that ever happened to it.

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