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What creature is this?

Submitted 3 years, 9 months ago by

Indeed very off-topic but came up to this creature on the street in front of the house. Never seen this before.
It's kinda huge too if you compare to the leave behind it. Anyone has any idea what scary creature this is?

  • Daowen's Avatar
    Hero of Warcraft 1000 252 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Indeed very off-topic but came up to this creature on the street in front of the house. Never seen this before.
    It's kinda huge too if you compare to the leave behind it. Anyone has any idea what scary creature this is?

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    seems like a lobster to me.. is it alive?

    https://www.google.com/search?q=lobster&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3iqyDjYvqAhVJAWMBHfCyCVIQ_AUoAXoECBgQAw&biw=1440&bih=758

    I mean he is missing his tail but those are some kind of bugs so maybe they can survive for some time without a few parts ( I know a cockroach can survive up to 2 weeks without it's head!)

    probably escaped from a nearby restaurant..?

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  • Vandaren's Avatar
    620 636 Posts Joined 06/05/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Yea i think its kinda lobster-crab type of creature. From the photo it seems like it is walking sideways, too..Invalid Deck ID

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  • Daowen's Avatar
    Hero of Warcraft 1000 252 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    it's alive yes lol

    There are restaurants around yes but they don't have anything with lobster there.
    It's definitely from the same family that's for sure, indeed the tail is different. And it has two "legs"  on the sides where lobsters do have 3. The head is kinda weird too.

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  • Kovachut's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 675 756 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I'd call an animal organisation, if I were you. My father found a bat on his balcony two years ago and he wanted it to be in some place safe. He called the animal organisation in our city and he was advised to bring the bat there.

    So, if you contact the experts in your country, they could tell you what to do with this "lobster". They might even decide to go to your place and pick it up for themselves.

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  • Daowen's Avatar
    Hero of Warcraft 1000 252 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    A friend of mine did send me a link to a newsite. And i think we found the answer....though another town now too then

    https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2017/08/delft-and-the-hague-take-action-against-american-crayfish-invader/

     

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  • PirateCapn's Avatar
    150 5 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I’m not an expert but it looks like a crawfish to me

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  • sinti's Avatar
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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From Kovachut

    I'd call an animal organisation, if I were you. My father found a bat on his balcony two years ago and he wanted it to be in some place safe. He called the animal organisation in our city and he was advised to bring the bat there.

    So, if you contact the experts in your country, they could tell you what to do with this "lobster". They might even decide to go to your place and pick it up for themselves.

    What?! How does one "bring a bat" anywhere. How do you catch it? You just have a spare bird cage lying around or what? How would you get him in? They should come for it, no? Damn i would have been creeped the hell out.


    On the topic: that is definitely Mirelurk ;-)

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  • Kovachut's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 675 756 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From sinti
    Quote From Kovachut

    I'd call an animal organisation, if I were you. My father found a bat on his balcony two years ago and he wanted it to be in some place safe. He called the animal organisation in our city and he was advised to bring the bat there.

    So, if you contact the experts in your country, they could tell you what to do with this "lobster". They might even decide to go to your place and pick it up for themselves.

    What?! How does one "bring a bat" anywhere. How do you catch it? You just have a spare bird cage lying around or what? How would you get him in? They should come for it, no? Damn i would have been creeped the hell out


    I just asked my father about the bat and he told me, that it was from these species:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhl%27s_pipistrelle

    https://www.eurobats.org/about_eurobats/protected_bat_species/pipistrellus_kuhlii

    As you can see, it has a size smaller than the human hand and that's how my father brought it to those people (he used gloves though, since bats can be carrier of diseases). The reason why it didn't fly away was because it was dehydrated and malnourished, since it was winter back then. We found it lying ill near my father's plants.

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  • Alleria's Avatar
    Eevee 1275 863 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From sinti
    Quote From Kovachut

    I'd call an animal organisation, if I were you. My father found a bat on his balcony two years ago and he wanted it to be in some place safe. He called the animal organisation in our city and he was advised to bring the bat there.

    So, if you contact the experts in your country, they could tell you what to do with this "lobster". They might even decide to go to your place and pick it up for themselves.

    What?! How does one "bring a bat" anywhere. How do you catch it? You just have a spare bird cage lying around or what? How would you get him in? They should come for it, no? Damn i would have been creeped the hell out.


    On the topic: that is definitely Mirelurk ;-)

    Exactly my thought sinti XD

    And what did you do with it after all, Daowen ? Did you catch it or leave it as it is?

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  • GerritDeMan's Avatar
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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I'm pretty sure that's a crayfish, although I'm not sure what species exactly. I would guess it's the eastern Asian/Eastern North American variant.

    I have actually encountered a whole bunch of these in a lake that we had to sample to assess the chemical and ecological water quality. It's an invasive species here in the Netherlands and these crayfish almost entirely wiped out the fish population in the lake, so we had ourselves a nice barbeque with all of the crayfish that we sampled. Unfortunately I also got pinched quite a bunch of times. 

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  • Wailor's Avatar
    Design Champion 640 707 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I'd say it's a Beast. Could be a hyper-realistic Mech, though.

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  • Daowen's Avatar
    Hero of Warcraft 1000 252 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From Alleria

    And what did you do with it after all, Daowen ? Did you catch it or leave it as it is?

    Checked back a little bit but couldn't find it anywhere anymore.
    Note: I wouldn't have picked it up though  :p

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    60 6 Posts Joined 10/24/2021
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    Yes, this is ordinary cancer

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    60 5 Posts Joined 12/17/2021
    Posted 2 years, 3 months ago

    I think this is a common cancer. I just do not understand why it is covered with a moss . Is there a lake or river not far from you?

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  • finnhilton's Avatar
    35 3 Posts Joined 07/29/2022
    Posted 1 year, 7 months ago

    I think it's a carb with some leave stick to it. If you give a bath to carbs, then it will be easy to recognise 

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