Ep. 864: The Deep State, Flow State and Animal Weapons with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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The Dunk Beetles and the Dunk Crab
Fiddler crabs are the champions in terms of animal weapons. The males invest a hundred percent of their body weight in this weapon that means they're producing a full copy of their body and carrying it around as a weapon. Caribou have the largest antlers relative to their body size of any vertebrate of any sort of warm blooded animal with a skeleton on the inside. These guys hardly ever fight one of my favorite studies looked at like 11 000 contests between rival males only six escalated into knockdown drag out battle.
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