164.WHEN WERE CRABS FIRST EATEN?
Whoever was the first man to eat a crab (or a lobster!), was probably very brave, or very hungry or both. If you’ve never seen one before in your life, the last thing you’d think of doing is eating one!
Crabs are so widely scattered all over the world, and have been known to man for such a long time, that we can never find out who was the first to eat crabs and when. Crab probably eaten by people who lived near the sea thousands of years ago. There are crabs off the coasts of Europe, North America, South America, India, Japan, and most of the Pacific Islands, Alaska, and so on.
163.WHAT IS A SQUID?
In the days when Columbus sailed the seas there were stories told of long-armed monsters that reached out of the water to scuttle ships and pull the sailors down to the depths of the ocean. Such stories were exaggerations. There never were such monsters, and what the sailors probably saw were giant octopuses or giant squid.
162.WHAT IS A CUTTLEFISH?
Anybody who owns a canary probably knows about “cutt1ebone,” which comes from the cuttlefish. The cuttlebone is given to canaries and other cage birds so they can sharpen their beaks on it.
But,except for this, the cuttlefish is quite unknown to most of us. The cuttlefish is not a fish, but a mollusk. It belongs to the class of mollusks called “cephalopods,” which means “head-footed animals.” This is because of the arrangement of the arms, or feet, around the mouth. The Octopus also belongs to this class of mollusk.
