Here we go again . Another video of a tongue - wield crab is progress to waves across the Internet . At first , it seems laughable   – even endearing . But   there ’s something you should get laid .

In theYouTubeclip , the ocean animate being is look engaged in a “ sword engagement ” . It seems the lilliputian crab plow the blade with comfort , passing it between its pincers as it scuttles across a sink . When a human being holding a much larger knife appears , the crabmeat continues to back up until tree itself against the swallow hole , eventually dropping its weapon in an appeared surrender .

Reportedlyfilmed in Malaysia , the title of the videotranslatesto something along the lines of “ alone and yielding a tongue , crab strives for his survival in the kitchen ” . The truth behind the video is likely just as sad . Nevertheless , the Internet   went wild .

Some were exalt by the crab .

Others terrified .

Then there ’s this bozo .

That ’s right , Darryl . The truth is the crab is credibly being bedevil by its human opposition .

“ I would bet with 99 percent certainty somebody put that knife in the crab ’s claw to make a funny video recording , ” said Molly Zaleski , a marine scientist based in Alaska , in an interview with IFLScience . “ It ’s emphatically not normal Cancer behavior to practice knives as tools or to apply knife as defense against humans . ”

Just because the crab is able to smoothly swap the knife between pincers does n’t think is a knife - ninja , either .

“ The Cancer is pass to snap up the knife opportunistically at the grip , ” say Zaleski . “ Toward the end of the video , you ’ll detect it ’s take up to grab at the leaf blade , which is too thin . It ’s not because the pubic louse recognize how to use a tongue , it ’s because the width of the handle is more contributing to its claw grab than the width of the blade . ”

It ’s one of many videos in recent years that give human gadget characteristic to animals , oranthropomorphosis . A similar knife - wield " Gangster Crab " surfaced in 2016 , which , according to theWashington Post , was just another dumb hoax .

allow ’s not blank out poorshower rat , our furry little friend filmed taking a shower and scratch itself standing up . Nope , it was n’t just getting sudsy . expert say it was probably trying to get an irritant off of its soundbox .

“ These types of video are more probable than not somebody just trying to shoot a risible video , which is inauspicious , ” sound out Zaleski .