Quabs

Rils · Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 327 Location: Free Ballard!

Our favorite little four-legged crustaceans are back! Post observations, pictures, and recipes here!
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The Zoologist · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject:

Aw, they're so adorable! I wonder if they are crustaceans, though - they have only four legs.

OOC: They are more reddish than they were in Path of the Shell, I think. Just an observation.
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semplerfi · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject:

The Zoologist · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject:

Four spheres, four legs on the quabs, four yellow lights on the inland face of the tower, four... what else...

As for outside Ahnonay, there's four pods, four bahro pillars, plus many other examples.

Wasn't five an important number too?
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BrettM · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject:

It would appear that quabs are not only amphibious, but TRI-phibious! In the process of examining some quabs, one made a tremendous leap and vanished, yet the detector continued to show a quab in the area. I searched the ground rigorously, and then I happened to look up:

Quabs seem to be quite at home in the trees, as well as on the ground and in the water. Possibly they have wings hidden under those carapaces, though they may simply have extraordinary jumping ability.
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The Zoologist · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:41 pm Post subject:

Wow...

Tree-climbing quabs?! Interesting... Well, there are species of crab that climb trees, like coconut crabs, so maybe this is a similar behavior.

Those legs do look pretty strong, and given the small, lightweight body, I suppose they can jump high when needed...
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rebusquilla · Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 120

Fantastic pic there, Brett M.! Looks like an alien of sorts Laughing

can they find something to eat up there? I've only seen them picking and scratching for food on the ground, even if it looks like there's isn't much to to find there?

Second (from foodpicking) behavior I've noticed is the 'watching' behavior - if one walk up to the quab and stops just as it notices 'a danger', it starts to 'spin' and stops foodpicking. It stays in that behavior until one walk closer, then it run away, jump, run away and stop. Or fall off the island if chased by a determined explorer Very Happy

I 'had' all the quabs in the 'watching'behavior for 15 minutes - no one started the foodpicking again.

Another thing I've noticed is that they don't seem to signal each other of possible dangers

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Owehn · Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 20

The wiki entry for Quabs is kind of short. If it's all right, I'd like to put in some of the points raised in this thread.

Tofer · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: