Yeah but it’s very unlikely they’d fine anyone else alive.
The basal metabolic rate of a adult human body is about 80 watts. This energy is taken from chemically burning sugar and fat, that’s why you gotta eat and that’s why you breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2.
But a kettle crab’s victim does not only need to just keep their own metabolism active, they also serve as an energy source for the crab. And they can’t get out to eat more. The crab cannot keep their victim alive beyond the victim’s own reserves because otherwise the crab loses in the exchange, instead of winning; and that defeats the purpose of eating people in the first place.
So anyone who’s been captured by a crab for ore than a few days is already dead.
EAT FIRE, SEAWEED BREATH!!!!
You know, it IS technically possible there is someone else in one of them, who wasn’t part of your group but may still be usefull …
Yeah but it’s very unlikely they’d fine anyone else alive.
The basal metabolic rate of a adult human body is about 80 watts. This energy is taken from chemically burning sugar and fat, that’s why you gotta eat and that’s why you breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2.
But a kettle crab’s victim does not only need to just keep their own metabolism active, they also serve as an energy source for the crab. And they can’t get out to eat more. The crab cannot keep their victim alive beyond the victim’s own reserves because otherwise the crab loses in the exchange, instead of winning; and that defeats the purpose of eating people in the first place.
So anyone who’s been captured by a crab for ore than a few days is already dead.
Wow, thank for putting the scientific analysis into this.
Uhh… The Kettle Crabs work on Matrix rules. Yeah, that’s it. That’s how they keep they’ve victims alive so long.
Just a little off the top if you don’t mind