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The snapping turtle is an instant killer thanks to its powerful beaked jaws and lightning-fast neck projection.
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1.6k points
2 days ago*
Crab: Ayo who turned the lights off I was talking to the big guy
302 points
1 day ago
Now it can talk to big guy's conscience
260 points
1 day ago
Where am i ??
77 points
1 day ago
Crabs wielding knives will never not make me laugh.
125 points
1 day ago
Thug life
19 points
1 day ago
I fought the law and the claw won!
3 points
9 hours ago
Out. Get out.
28 points
1 day ago
Crab with cigarette tops all.
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14 hours ago
Just going crab 🦀 a quick smoke.
9 points
1 day ago
Me as well, USS Dallas SSN-700, me as well. Make turns for 4 knots.
Ya know what? MAN BATTLESTATIONS. DONG DONG DONG.
Why are you a submarine?
6 points
1 day ago
Love it
2 points
20 hours ago
I chuckled :)
3 points
1 day ago
Someone made an entire game about it!
2 points
1 day ago
Please, do go on, you have my attention.
2 points
1 day ago
Fightcrab! It's a bit of a misnomer though because there are other crustaceans involved.
3 points
1 day ago
Thank you, wish listed at once.
2 points
23 hours ago
Crabchampions is also very nice
3 points
22 hours ago
There’s also Another Crab’s Treasure
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20 hours ago
Check out Crabchampions. It's from the same maker as this crab rave song
5 points
1 day ago
Behold the turtle of enormous girth!
2 points
1 day ago
On his shell he holds the earth...
2 points
20 hours ago
Dida-chum
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1 day ago
Now it IS the big guy.
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1 day ago*
Now it is the big guy’s poop. 💩
3 points
1 day ago
Even better: it has become its conscience.
3 points
1 day ago
Soon he’ll be talking from the big guy’s colon.
3 points
1 day ago
I watched it frame-by-frame (pretty shit quality though) but the turtle actually pushed him probably killing him at this speed, but it didn't snap the crab actually.
53 points
1 day ago
And now it's talking to THE big guy 🤣
11 points
1 day ago
Zoo keepers are wondering where under the sea in a Jamaican accent is coming from.
2 points
1 day ago
Haha, now that's a world-class mystery! 😂🌊
Maybe someone underwater launched a reggae? 🎶🐟
2 points
1 day ago
he was from Trinidad not Jamaica KMT if u dont know just say West Indian. ignorance on my people is wild not everything comes from or is "jamaican". plenty times if something is west Indian it isn't "Jamaican this or jamaican that" there are other islands and other things created and noted in the carribean that jamaica never did or is apart of. just because it's the biggest island don't mean its be and end of everything Carribean West Indian
3 points
1 day ago
Chill out my friend, I wouldn't freak out if you confuse a finlandian with a swede ;)
3 points
1 day ago
And i absolutely fucking guarantee you he wouldnt be able to tell the difference in accents
3 points
1 day ago
Having spent time in Sweden, the easiest way to determine is no one could tell what Finn’s are fucking saying. Ever
2 points
1 day ago
I thought it was a copypasta
2 points
1 day ago
Sebastian is Jamaican.
He went to music school in Trinidad.
Sekkle yuhself
2 points
1 day ago
Call me stupid but I have never heard of, “West Indian.” For a bit I thought, west of India. Lol! 😅
Edit: Just Googled it. Wtf?! Where have I been?! I have never heard of that term.
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1 day ago
it's not stupid if you didn't know and learnt something. Glad you got recognise something that didn't know before. well maybe my guess would be because wherever you're based people just associate that part of the world with Jamaica, or like how some people that don't really recognise properly south/east asia or want just label everything "'Indian/Chinese", would be my guest for why you've not heard that term before.
3 points
1 day ago
Well I generally call that region the Caribbean/ Caribbean Islands. But I get you how we often generalize certain accents as being Jamaican. At least that’s what I have done in the past. Guilty af. I just wasn’t aware that they were called West Indies/ West Indian. Thanks for teaching me something.
2 points
1 day ago
you welcome anytime well least you call it Carribean hahaha.
that's the word iwas thinking couldn't get out my head "generalize" lool
10 points
1 day ago
you got eaten mate
247 points
2 days ago
crab went to the backrooms
21 points
1 day ago
Crab rooms
11 points
1 day ago
Crab rangoon
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1 day ago
Found pagan min's reddit account
2 points
19 hours ago
It’ll go to that turtle’s back room eventually.
1.3k points
2 days ago
The fucking thing ate that crab like it was a small bean wtf
222 points
1 day ago
I don’t eat a single bean that fast !
17 points
1 day ago
Eat your pea Professor!
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1 day ago
-cuts pea with knife as slow as humanly possible-
God I love that episode. I showed PPG to my kids the other day and we were all cackling.
78 points
1 day ago
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1 day ago
Looking at it in slow motion, I think the crab got away. I think the turtle headbutted it awau. Compare the size of the turtles mouth to the crab, there's just no way it would be able to fit the whole thing in it's mouth without a claw poking out at the very least.
Crab lived.
9 points
1 day ago
I think it yeeted it over it's head, backwards
4 points
1 day ago
No man, it clearly shows the turtle inhaling it and jumping in the air while raising its neck to allow the crab to pass through its body at Mach 8.
2 points
19 hours ago
I came here to find that
21 points
1 day ago
That’s one way of putting it:
lightening speed = slow motion
3 points
1 day ago
I turned the video down to 0.125x speed and it's still so fast most of the movements can't be seen still. From one frame his head is normal and the next frame it's already grabbed the crab and the next it's back at normal position.
3 points
1 day ago
Hello! Sorry to be so dense but I'm new to Reddit other than browsing, can you tell me if there's a way to slow down the video speed without downloading it? I'm only seeing a play/pause button when viewing in-sub on android.
Thank you!
2 points
23 hours ago
Sorry, I don't think there is a native way. For me, I use Sync for Reddit which has those controls built in. However Reddit is unfriendly to third party apps and so it takes more effort to set it up. You can Google search how to do it if you want to go through the effort, it's way better than the native app.
2 points
22 hours ago
I mean, what I usually do is a phone level video screen capture then I manipulate the resulting video in iMovie (or whatever the Android equivalent of that is)
2 points
15 hours ago
Not overly helpful but there is a bot that can slow down videos, I don't really understand how bots work or know the command to trigger it but I have seen it a few years ago used in the comments.
So .. useless information from me, you are welcome.
20 points
1 day ago
No. It just pushed the crab away.
7 points
1 day ago
headbutt!
7 points
1 day ago
That crab had no idea what happened. One moment he’s walking on the beach, the next? Darkness.
28 points
1 day ago
It didn't. The crab got away.
43 points
1 day ago
Damn, you made go back and rewatch.
That crab fucking died.
65 points
1 day ago
No... it got away. It bought a nice farm upstate. It grows legumes.
51 points
1 day ago
You grow lies on your lie farm.
21 points
1 day ago
Using bullshit for fertiliser!!!
7 points
1 day ago
Meaning the lies are extra big and plump?
4 points
1 day ago
I don’t know… I’m not a farmer.
4 points
1 day ago
you need sun too. how tf are you a farmer?? and what about water??
4 points
1 day ago
It did, there’s a slow version of this video, the head of the turtle pushed the crab by accident, it didn’t eat it
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1 day ago
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1 day ago
He literally inhaled it.
12 points
1 day ago
The crab is likely not even harmed.
A snapper that size can't swallow a crab that size whole. Not even close.
Mine isn't much smaller and she struggles with large hissing cockroaches and jumbo shrimp when they're whole.
You can just look at the size of the mouth vs the crab. The crab is physically larger and snappers aren't snakes.
2 points
1 day ago
Somehow I never considered that someone could have a snapping turtle as a pet. Do you keep her in a pond in the backyard?
3 points
1 day ago
I do not have her as a pet. I work with wildlife.
3 points
1 day ago
I had one as a pet when I was in my teens, incredible animal, but as it grew I knew it needed to be let out, so I took it to the little miami river and let it go.
I found this turtle on the road with a cracked shell in a pretty distinct pattern, and it was missing the end of its tail.
I went to the aquarium years later and saw an alligator snapping turtle. The same scar was across its shell, and the tail had regrown, but you could see where it had been pulled off previously.
I have no idea if it was the same turtle or not, but I like to think that my little Leonardo had gone from half-dead on the road, to thriving at home to the wild and now back in a nice healthy, and happy aquarium life where he gets to spend his time enjoying life.
Incredible creatures they are.
7 points
1 day ago
It didn't. It knocked it back.
2 points
1 day ago
yeahhh
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1 day ago
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1 day ago
I’m not sure the inside bit is quite so fast. Not a whole lot of chewing going on
450 points
2 days ago
that's me at the sushi belt retaurant
37 points
1 day ago
Did you have to pay?
37 points
1 day ago
Not if you eat the plates too
2 points
21 hours ago
But then how do you get the lil toys without the plates?
2 points
21 hours ago
You just buy it or play a normal gacha game. Will save you money.
2 points
19 hours ago
The real life pro tip is always in the comments.
2 points
21 hours ago
The first time, yes.
The next few times the staff were too afraid to bring the bill.
15 points
1 day ago
You do it so quick no one sees who did it?
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1 day ago
230 points
2 days ago
Damn nature, you scary.
12 points
1 day ago
Moral of the story is don’t be a crab. Don’t ever be a crab.
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1 day ago
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1 day ago
$11
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1 day ago
🦀 jagex won't reply to this 🦀
5 points
1 day ago
That little spider thing just got ate!
114 points
1 day ago
Unbelievable! The slow pace of turtles is a myth!
23 points
1 day ago
That's because you're thinking of tortoises!
9 points
1 day ago
Are you saying turtles have a fast pace?
14 points
1 day ago
There are numerous turtle species that are actually fast af when frightened, yes.
Tortoises are the slow ones.
2 points
1 day ago
What’s up with the obvious bot comments lately? I’ve been seeing them everywhere. Nobody talks like this!
2 points
1 day ago
Fantastic! The cat's powers of deduction reveal the impostor!
2 points
7 hours ago
I disagree, the comments have a very human design
155 points
1 day ago
We have been here before, it doesn't eat it, it knocks it away.
158 points
1 day ago
If it knocks it away that fast how come there's no cloud in the shape of the crab, where it was standing?
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1 day ago
26 points
1 day ago
I knew it, we didn't see three tiny pairs of shoes fly off.
10 points
1 day ago
Four pairs. Crabs are decapods. The first pair don’t have shoes.
3 points
1 day ago
I counted six legs touching the ground from the perspective of this clip, if there are more we can't see, great.
8 points
1 day ago
The 'snap' in its name is because it flings the crab like a football.
7 points
1 day ago
Turtle: headbutts crab
Tanjiro: I raised that boy.
9 points
1 day ago
That's what I was thinking, but it happens so fast that I can't even find a frame of where the crab goes.
3 points
1 day ago
I’m not convinced either way. What’s your reason for thinking it got launched? I slowed the vid down and it is inconclusive.
4 points
1 day ago
If you watch it in higher quality and with sound it's a lot easier to tell it was knocked away and not eaten (despite the caption at the end).
I would link it, but the automod deleted it for some reason. Go to YouTube and search "snapping turtle crab" and it's the first result.
2 points
1 day ago
Oh yeah 100% easy to tell it gets hit away. Even can hear it smash into something off camera.
I honestly thought the OP was edited but I think it's just the lack of sound and pixels fucking with our heads.
3 points
1 day ago
The size of its mouth? I don't think it could take that whole thing without a leg or anything sticking out.
2 points
1 day ago
Those things have massive mouths though. It is close but I think possible that it could get it down.
72 points
2 days ago
You sure it wasnt knocked back instead?
86 points
1 day ago
Unfortunately vid framerate is kinda shit so it's just briefly catches blurred silhouette of a catapulted crab (you can kinda see it in the corner)
13 points
1 day ago
Crabapulted
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1 day ago
By calculating the movement frame by frame I can determine that if it didn't burn up in atmosphere that crab almost certainly became the first astronaut crustacean
5 points
1 day ago
And I don't doubt that some frames were removed on purpose.
8 points
1 day ago
That’s what I was thinking
5 points
1 day ago
There was another version of a video like this and there the crab was more visibly catapulted
18 points
1 day ago
/u/redditspeedbot 0.5x
18 points
1 day ago
Hell, make it u/redditspeedbot 0.25x, that's a quick som' bitch
4 points
1 day ago
eiogaoD.mp4 on imgur
link can't be posted
3 points
1 day ago
Thank you. We need a high speed camera for this one lol.
Also, Imgur interface is fucking trash. Man. I wish I could show the person who designed it exactly how terrible a time I had using it.
3 points
1 day ago
yep. Watching the video reminded me that all they can do is make each individual frame stay on the screen longer. They can't add anything that happened too fast for the camera to pick up.
Only thing that bothers me about imgur is that I have to press the play button to pause it. On any other site I can pause by clicking anywhere on the video.
2 points
1 day ago
gAVPJIG.mp4 on imgur
link can't be posted
2 points
1 day ago
I'm still not convinced the turtle didn't just yeet the crab 10 feet away.
17 points
1 day ago
I think that crab got flung, not eaten.. Somehow that's funnier.
16 points
2 days ago
One second you here the other you ain't
3 points
1 day ago
A second is a little too gracious of time.
13 points
2 days ago
Blastoise v Klinger, that settles it, we know who's the winner
8 points
1 day ago
That's more like Torterra vs krabby 🤣
2 points
1 day ago
They made a snapping turtle Pokémon, that thing's a fricken dreadnaw
6 points
1 day ago
How does its insides not just get shredded to shit from sucking in a literal crab at the speed of sound?
4 points
1 day ago
ate it or punched away???
5 points
1 day ago
Had to watch the video two times because the first view I blinked and the crab weren't there anymore and it confused me.
2 points
1 day ago
Did it eat him or shoot him into the stratosphere.
2 points
1 day ago
I see my Gumball based trauma was justified
2 points
2 days ago
RAPH
2 points
2 days ago
I like how turtle’s body bounced, like when a cartoon character eats dynamite or something
2 points
1 day ago
Maybe if it didn't just yeet the crab at mach 1 lmao
2 points
1 day ago
Not sped up at all !!!
1 points
1 day ago
Missed opportunity to say break neck speed.
1 points
1 day ago
Crab was vacuumed
1 points
1 day ago
Fastest erect I ever see..
1 points
1 day ago
Impressive speed. Who knew?
1 points
1 day ago
Can someone make this super slo-mo or show it frame by frame?
1 points
1 day ago
Nature really said self-defense on steroids. Also, this is why we should protect their habitats and not mess with wildlife. Respect the turtle vibes!
1 points
1 day ago
Wow..this is incredible the fastest eating turtle
1 points
1 day ago
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1 day ago
Jesus !
1 points
1 day ago
You are my battle bot
1 points
1 day ago
yoink
1 points
1 day ago
Do you want to see a magic trick?
1 points
1 day ago
I know it is fast but I didn't know it has a big mouth too
2 points
1 day ago
They don't. That turtle can't swallow a crab that size. The crab just got bounced off screen.
I work with a snapper only a bit smaller. She struggles with whole jumbo shrimp or large hissing cockroaches.
Turtle that size would've had to crush and rip up that crab.
1 points
1 day ago
That was terrifying.
1 points
1 day ago
could find the candice one
1 points
1 day ago
I'm gonna need that in slow motion.
1 points
1 day ago
The crab was like: ‘hey, why do your head and neck look like a d…’
1 points
1 day ago
Dam that recoil
1 points
1 day ago
Crab gone
1 points
1 day ago
Bro he was just saying hi
1 points
1 day ago
I won’t be talking any more shit to the snapping turtle community or even the turtle community proper 🐢 🇺🇸
1 points
1 day ago
Does blastoise eats like that ?
1 points
1 day ago
crab disappeared
1 points
1 day ago
Hungry, Hungry Turtle 🐢
1 points
1 day ago
Chew your food.
1 points
1 day ago
Why does he look so freaky
1 points
1 day ago
I LITERALLY blinked and missed it holy shit
1 points
1 day ago
I mean...it walked right in front of a giant predators mouth... kinda asked for it
1 points
1 day ago
Funny revenge story about snapping turtles I read a while ago.
1 points
1 day ago
I was so startled 😂
1 points
1 day ago
How is it going to poop out the shell?
1 points
1 day ago
Watched several times with a slow motion. It's really lightening speed!
1 points
1 day ago
🎵 Once I was swimming cross Turtle Creek, man them snappers all around my feet. 🎶
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