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The collective term for group of crabs is a "cast of crabs." It seems particularly fitting here, where three juvenile Sally Lightfoot Crabs (Graspus graspus) are clustered together like a group of dancers in the wings awaiting their cue.

To point out the obvious, juvenile Sally Lightfoot Crabs are less colorful than adults, and their shells display colored specs and mottling that serves as camouflage.

Ditto for the carapace, which is dark, like the lava rocks where these crabs live their lives, instead of the flaming orange-red seen on adult specimens.

In this respect, young Sally Lightfoot Crabs differ markedly from their human counterparts, who dress to be noticed and not to blend into the background. There are other differences as well, but it would be pointless to go into that here. However, like young humans, young Sally Lightfoot Crabs clearly go for peer-group conformity.
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