{"id":6071,"date":"2026-10-15T23:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/crabs-trade-shells-in-the-strangest-way-bbc-earth\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:27:05","slug":"crabs-trade-shells-in-the-strangest-way-bbc-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/crabs-trade-shells-in-the-strangest-way-bbc-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Crabs Trade Shells in the Strangest Way | BBC Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f1dnocPQXDQ?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>As a hermit crab grows its shell becomes a tighter fit so eventually the crabs need to move into a bigger one, leading to an amazing exchange. Taken from Life Story. Subscribe to BBC Earth: http:\/\/bit.ly\/ydxvrP <\/p>\n<p>Watch David Attenborough Dynasties series trailer here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JWI1eCbksdE &#8211;~&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>WATCH MORE:<br \/>\nNew on Earth: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2M3La96<br \/>\nOceanscapes: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Hmd2kZ<br \/>\nWild Thailand: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2kR7lmh<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you&#8217;ll find 50 years worth of astounding, entertaining, thought-provoking and educational natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, nature doesn&#8217;t get more exciting than this.<\/p>\n<p>This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios. Service &#038; Feedback https:\/\/www.bbcstudios.com\/contact\/contact-us\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f1dnocPQXDQ\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a hermit crab grows its shell becomes a tighter fit so eventually the crabs need to move into a bigger one, leading to an amazing exchange. Taken from Life Story. Subscribe to BBC Earth: http:\/\/bit.ly\/ydxvrP Watch David Attenborough Dynasties series trailer here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JWI1eCbksdE &#8211;~&#8211; WATCH MORE: New on Earth: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2M3La96 Oceanscapes: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Hmd2kZ Wild Thailand: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":6072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12022,82,15,964,4111,1183,12023,95,12027,12021,12030,2713,4777,1894,94,641,4059,12026,12025,12029,12024,12028,1105,93],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-amazing-crabs-shell-exchange","tag-animals","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-earth","tag-crab","tag-crabs","tag-crabs-shell-exchange","tag-david-attenborough","tag-exchange-shell","tag-hermit-crab","tag-hermit-crab-changing-shells","tag-hermit-crabs","tag-life-story","tag-natural-history","tag-nature","tag-ocean","tag-sea","tag-sea-shell","tag-shell-exchange","tag-shell-size","tag-shells","tag-swap-shell","tag-wild","tag-wildlife","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}