{"id":387907,"date":"2026-01-24T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387907\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:59:10","slug":"its-not-over-yet-filmmakers-deployed-a-robot-crab-into-the-sea-how-the-other-crabs-reacted-was-extraordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387907\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s not over yet.\u201d Filmmakers deployed a robot crab into the sea. How the other crabs reacted was extraordinary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the BBC TV series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/tv\/spy-in-the-ocean-behind-the-scenes-with-executive-producer-philip-dalton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spy in the Ocean<\/a>, filmmakers had a unique solution to getting amongst the action: sending in \u2018spy cameras\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Animatronic robots, with a built-in camera, were sent to film incredible behaviour that would likely have been disrupted by human presence.<\/p>\n<p>And in Australia, a spider crab spy cam captured hordes of spider crabs outgrowing their tough shells. While their new shell is larger, it is softer and takes time to harden \u2013 and the soft shells makes them vulnerable to hunting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/fish\/stingray-facts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stingrays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To protect the softer-shelled crabs, the harder-shelled crabs build \u2018towers\u2019 in the ocean to cover them. One of the crabs even uses the spy cam to hide from the stingray.<\/p>\n<p>But when the imposter is attacked by the stingray, the spider crabs do something incredible. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the BBC TV series Spy in the Ocean, filmmakers had a unique solution to getting amongst the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-387907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}