Thinking About the immortality of the Crab

In this short post we will try think about this question who humanity asked for generations… The crabs are immortals?

Crabs are a crustacean animal with six legs, which live in sea rocks near to coast. It’s very territorial specie and they fight with their claws for territory or like a courtship ritual. They feed on plankton and other algae and live approximately ten years.

The immortality is a fictitious condition that allows doesn’t death ever. In mythology the gods, and other creatures like vampires are immortals, and this condition it was a very important concept in the anthropological studies about religion.

In consideration of those two assumptions, the crabs only lives approximately ten year, for that matter, the crabs are not immortals.

But, was this a real question? The answer is no. The phrase “you are thinking about the immortality of the crab”, is just a humorous way to say you are daydreaming, used especially in the Spanish-Speaking countries. This Phrase is so popular, who was inspired poems like “inmortalidad del cangrejo” from Miguel de Unamuno, and movies like the 2000s Comedy Bolivian film “Sena/Quina, la inmortalidad del cangrejo”.