When I was digging stuffs in internet to decide on my M.Sc dissertation, my guide suggested me to work on the sand bubbler crab which he had observed so many times on most of the beaches in and around Port Blair. I was so amazed with the idea of doing a project on sand bubbler crab not because I wanted to do serious research at that time but the very special reason was to make myself available on the beautiful beaches all the time and minimum classroom and boring lab stuff. I used to carry my camera, sufficient batteries, a mat, water bottle, bread, jam, maggie noodles, boiled eggs. I observed the crabs on beach for three months and found that these crabs are worthy of tremendous appreciation that they survive in the most difficult environmental condition and minimum nutrition and still are the happiest living organism. I would say they are happy because they appear on beach in swarm and if we observe carefully we can figure out that they are doing some kind of Spanish tap dance.

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