What can we learn from the hermit crab?

Yeshwanth Pulijala
1 min readSep 9, 2016

Hermit crab and sea anemones exhibit symbiotic kind of lifestyle. While hermit crab moves around and provides food at new places to sea anemone, the latter provides protection to hermit crab from Octopuses. Here are 3 things we learn from these beings:

  • Learn to live together: Though the crab and anemone could have lived by themselves and made a living, their symbiotic lifestyle shows how we can live in collaboration with others.
  • Leave when it is time: When things get beyond their time, when you grow beyond your size, move on. Don’t get struck to your old habits or old home. Find a new place, make a new home and get moving. Leave the old home for your followers or the needy. If you watch the video carefully, you will notice the hermit crab didn’t carry its shell along after it left one. It didn’t have much attachment to its place when it found a new shell.
  • Dont leave your friends and go, even if they don’t get it immediately: After finding its new home, the hermit crab never left the sea anemone for itself, instead, it picked it up patiently and placed it back on its shell. Don’t ever leave your friends and family in times of need.

Nature around us teaches valuable lessons every minute. Are you watching?

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Yeshwanth Pulijala

Founder of Scalpel Ltd. Builds tech to make surgery safer. Ph.D. in Mixed reality applications for Surgery. Also a Dentist.