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I really want to like this video, but we have giant isopods (Bathynomus giganteus) at our local aquarium and I learned about their stressed behaviors and the poor fella is hella stressed. Giant isopods they only move to eat or escape predators because they need to conserve energy. Two of them were swimming which means they're probably quite stressed.

Plus taking them out of the water is the biggest problem here because the live in extremely cold water so it's probably also overheating. Hell, oceanic hermit crabs try to escape your hand's warmth even if you're holding them under water and they live in relatively warm water in comparison to giant isopods.

Educating children and introducing them to oceanic life is important, but not at the cost of the animal's comfort and safety.

Gosh! That’s horrid, I had no idea! D:

If you're wondering what proper giant isopod education and interaction entails and maybe need a pick me up, the Monterey Bay aquarium has a monitored touchpool with 4 isopods to gently pet so no one isopod gets too stressed, the water is absolutely frigid (which also helps with keeping people from bothering them too much) and they are never picked up, unless it's by a trained individual. They feel like sandpaper btw.

They're my favorite aquarium because I am biased and because they help do research on the animals they keep. When possible they try to rescue animals and only keep ones that are unreleasable and/or breed them so they aren't pulling animals from the wild as much as possible and because captive bred animals experience less stress in displays.

Once again a win for Monterey Bay Aquarium! Good for them and good for their isopods. :>

for everyone asking for what article this is i actually went back and found it again and you'll never guess who it's about

Johnny Appleseed: America’s Forgotten Ronin

"Cowboys were an itinerant warrior class from meiji era texas"

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