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Just when you thought of snakes are the only animals who changes their skin, think again. Crabs is also one of the animals which also sloughed off old shell as they do not grow unlike linear animals. Such as the case of the spider crab (takaashigani; also, tall-foot crab) They have to move out of their shells and let another one grow because their exoskeleton doesn’t grow with them. Instead, they become too tight. This process is called molting, and usually it takes for 15 minute for a crab to shed his old shell.

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