MudCrabDude
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/16/crossing-guards-needed-for-crabs/Help wanted: Crossing guards.
Job description: Escort female crabs across a busy highway during the peak of spawning season.
Think you’re the right person for the job? Apply to Kenting National Park in Taiwan. The park put out the word Thursday that it needs help protecting female land crabs as they migrate from inland areas to coastal spawning grounds. To get there, they need to cross Provincial Highway 26.
Crushed crustaceans are a common sight along the highway, so the park administration will close parts of it for three days this month and three days in October, the Taipei Times reported Thursday.
During other times, park administration is asking motorists to slow down and posting yield-to-the-crabs signs. Officials are also asking for volunteers to carry the creatures across the highway to the ocean.
Officials say there are more than 30 species of land crab in the park, making the park and its surrounding areas the richest habitat for land crabs in the world, according to the Taipei Times report
Better watch those fingers, peeps...