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Carrier Crab Video If you think your backpack's bulky, be thankful you're not a carrier crab! Watch how these crustaceans pick up anything they can to use as defense—even another animal!Welcome to the National Geographic video player.Video Sections

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- Attack From Below - An unsuspecting egret stumbles across a cyanea octopus, who manages to squirt a jet of water at it from under the surface!
- Carrier Crab - If you think your backpack's bulky, be thankful you're not a carrier crab! Watch how these crustaceans pick up anything they can to use as defense—even another animal!
- Hairy Sea Cucumber - Watch an undersea show of a hairy sea cucumber's dancing feet in this video.
- In the Dark - Would you see very well in a deep, dark cave? Cave shrimp and cave fish don't…because they don't have eyes.
- Jammin' Jellies - All of these jellyfish are squishy and boneless, and none of them have brains.
- Krill - Krill may seem tiny and insignificant, but they are important building blocks in the oceans' food chain.
- Land Crab - Watch a land crab wet its whistle in this video.
- Lobster Trail - These lobsters form underwater conga lines to travel. Watch them move across the ocean floor.
- Lunch Tide - Low tide means time to eat! See sandbubbler crabs and soldier crabs sweep the beach for food before high tide sweeps them away.
- Multicolored Mollusk - Nudibranchs are snails without shells that get their wild colors, and sometimes poison, from the foods they eat.
- Ocean Fairies - Zooplankton are like nothing you've ever seen. Get a close-up look at some delicate and fairy-like creatures.
- Plumed Worm - Watch a plumed worm building a tube to live in and "decorating" it with sea lettuce!
- Snail Zombies - One parasite can turn an average garden snail into a "snail zombie"!
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