Badger vs. Crab

[Ric]

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.

[Professor S]

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

The behavior of badgers differs by family, but all shelter underground, living in burrows called setts. Some are solitary, moving from home to home, while others are known to form clans. Clan size is variable from 2 to 15. Badgers are fierce animals and will protect themselves and their young at all costs. Badgers are capable of fighting off much larger animals such as wolves, coyotes and bears. Badgers can run or gallop at up to 25-30 km per hour for short periods of time.
North American Badgers (Taxidea taxus) and Coyotes (Canis latrans) have been seen hunting together, in a cooperative fashion.[3]

British forces were said to have released man-eating badgers in the vicinity of Basra, Iraq, to kill terrorists following the 2003 coalition invasion.[23]

Thats right... BADGERS OF MASS DESTRUCTION






And they have laser eyes...

[Typhoid]

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.

[Professor S]

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

[Ric]

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

[Ric]

The crab would easily win in a fight. For a start the badger would drown first

If we were to go by sheer weight in numbers then the crabs would have it billions to one. There are at least 4,500 species of crabs in the world. All of them vs all the badgers? The badgers would get owned!
There are even more crabs in the world than there are people.

The crab even has it's own star constellation in it's image. The constellation of cancer. In fact ther is a five planet solar system in this constellation mexicanskies.com/constellations/cancer.htm and it has been gazed upon by philosophers, astronomers and historians for for millennia. Our planet even has it's own tropic named after this, The Tropic Of Cancer. Thats north of the equator Thats another example of how brilliant crabs are and how much influance they truly hold.

EDIT: Oh and ftr we dont eat badgers because they carry bovine tuberculosis... or however you spell it We shoot them instead so they dont infect cattle.



Would you sunbathe here?



EDIT 2 More

[Typhoid]

Crab is in the lead for taking out cities and owning a constellation.


Badger, things are looking slim.

[Professor S]

Hmmm, I didn't take water into account, and that does make up most oft eh earth's surface.

I concede to the crab.

[Ric]

Originally Posted by Professor S

I concede to the crab.

YES!!

Just when I was getting my crab army ready



EDIT: it has gone midnight and is officially wednesday where I am, UK GMT I already stayed up late because of this thread So in my mind the crab has already won. WOO, go crab!

[KillerGremlin]

I'm confused, the poll is a tie...so isn't it a tie still?

How can the crab win if this is a true vote?

EDIT: I voted for the crab by the way, not knockin' on the good thing we have going here...just sayin..