Freshwater crabs are everywhere when you hike in the Western Ghats of India during the monsoon season. These crabs are omnivorous scavengers. Seeing one in the wild may not be remarkable—especially if they're all around you—but it gives you many opportunities to film them up close.

Because they're omnivores, don't be surprised to see them grabbing a salad bowl like well behaved vegans.

Even though these crabs have compound eyes on movable stalks, they do not form high‑resolution images. Their eyes are tuned to detect movement and low light, which lets them leave their burrows and forage at dusk or night. Also, since they forage at night, what's the point.

They use their pincers to check if something might be food. Since touching an object doesn’t confirm it’s edible, they first bring anything their pincers catch to their mouths.

After a while it stumbled into an earthworm who was minding its own business. And this heartless crab couldn't pass on a free meal opportunity, so it gave it death by a thousand cuts.

Here is the first one.

I had to watch, helpless, as the earthworm’s body parts squirmed in the crab’s pincers. But let’s assume the crab is innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.

And the crab takes its time before the worm meets its end — here it breaks the worm into smaller pieces.

And watch how it slurps the rest of the worm, like you would a noodle.

Woah! Did you see the movable stalk on the right?

And then it finishes the rest of the meal like a freshman smoking a joint.