Crustacean Station – Part II
Besides their tremendous diversity of body shapes and colors, the crustaceans of Lembeh Straits’ dive sites are remarkable for a number of other characteristics as well. While having a hardened exoskeleton (frequently fortified with calcium carbonate, just as with our skeletons) is great at providing protection from fish and other...
Welcome BBC to critters@Lembeh Resort
We are thrilled to welcome the BBC to critters@Lembeh Resort. The team just arrived and has been busy setting up their extensive kit which includes state-of-the art cameras, rebreathers and all kinds of cool filming gear. World-renowned for extraordinary nature programs such as Life and the recent 3-part Shark documentary,...
Critters of the Lembeh Strait | Episode 14 – 2015 | Crustacean Station Part 1
This week's episode is all about crustaceans. Watch as porcelain crabs use their delicate filter appendages to try to catch food floating in the water, and marvel at the sheer diversity of this family of critters ranging from box crabs (also known as 'shame-faced crabs'), porcelain crabs and slipper lobsters...