PEOPLE: Laverne Cox Talks Season 2 of Orange is the New Black. Below is a behind-the-scenes video of the cover shoot at her home in New York, and an edited transcript of an interview conducted May 8 in Palo Alto, before Cox addressed an audience at Stanford University.
, Reptile keeper and breeder, wildlife observation and ecology hobbyist. Hermit crabs are crabs. Crabs are invertebrates. Invertebrates are animals that do not have an internal skeleton. Instead, they have an exoskeleton. And ten legs. Reptiles are vertebrates. They have an internal skeleton, just like we do, and four legs (well, except for a few lizards that have only 2 or none, or snakes which have none).
Fish such as gunnels and clingfish count among the hermit crab's predators, but these crabs aren't safe once they leave the water. Birds such as crows and land animals such as raccoons also prey on these small animals. Hermit crabs use shells for protection, and according to Scientific American, they can hollow out too-small shells to allow for more room to grow. However, these hollowed-out shells are easier for predators to crush. According to Smithsonian Magazine, hermit crabs can also be cannibalized by their own kind.