Badger vs. Crab
 

Badger:





Crab:

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Once again I am a cancerian, so I am going with the crab. Did you know there is one species of crab that lives on land and, apart from human beings, are the only creatures on the planet that can open and eat coconuts.

Come on Crab - Pincer that stupid badger to deadness...

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Better pictures:



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Zatchy-Boy, I used both of those pictures for earlier matches with each of them.
I'm trying not to use the same picture twice.

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I think you are being bias toward the badger by using the picture of crab meat on a plate, so to make up for it, go crab...

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How would that make it biased to the badger?
Crab meat is fucking delicious.

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Since this ended up in a tie: I will give this one an extra day.

Whoever makes the most convincing argument of why one animal should win (or the other should lose) and can sway me, shall win.

You have until the end of the day.
If nobody posts, I'll flip a coin.

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Crab should win.

The crab is both a diverse and highly adaptive species. They come in a multitude of shapes, sizes and colours, so adaptive are crabs that they have come to inhabit all of the oceans of the world.

Crabs are also of an ancient genus, the fossile record shows they were around in highly evolved, land dwelling states as far back as the Cretaceous Period, some 65 million to 130 million years ago. One of the oldest and most recently discovered examples being estimated to be at least 94 million years old. The following link is an interesting read. http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/1739.html

I will for now hold my argument in the support of the crab. Would anyone else like to contribute? :)

EDIT: Compare this with my earlier picture.

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Age and adaptability are decent arguments, but not too useful in a fight.

Thats right... BADGERS OF MASS DESTRUCTION






And they have laser eyes...

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I just found a much older example of an ancient crab which has remained pretty much unchanged for some 445 million years.



For a species to have been around for so long... it is astounding. The history of man is but the blink of an eye. They will probably still be around long after we are gone.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0207135801.htm

EDIT: didn't get that one in, in time ;)

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So far it's close, on the grounds of the Badger hunting with wolves, and having lasers for eyes - and the crab being extremely old and a survivalist.

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It's hard to take the toughness of a badger seriously when you consider their mortal enemy bred to flush them out of their burrows:



Although that honey badger is pretty badass. Looks like a wolverine. Perhaps should be more specific in the species for the future polls like with the emperor penguin.

I voted for badgers for their catching song.

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Final argument: We eat crabs. We don't fuck with badgers.

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You're thinking groundhogs, dammit! EDIT: Nope, they flushed out badgers, but pussy European badgers.

And for the record, I use the African Honey Badger as my horse in this race. It would eat a weinerdog.

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Well, crab is rather delicious.