Talk:Crashfish/@comment-5345212-20180401101753

To the people saying that their behaviour is like that of bees. No. Bees have communities, they're eusocial, they have a hive to protect and the bees that kill themselves are not the breeders and do it as a last resort.

The crashfish depict no such qualities. Even if they were to defend the other crashfish in the cave, then not every crashfish should explode, as some would need to survive. If the threat is big enough to force all of the adults in your species to kill themselves, then it's better to move away and start anew than everyone killing themselves, leaving potential eggs defenseless. So unless these are the guardians at the gates of some vast network connecting the plants that also houses the majority of the species, this is a really useless defence mechanism. And that is probably not true, because crashfish eggs are found outside, defenseless. And even with all that, it shouldn't kill itself for passing through, only if you're a legitimate threat( most of the time I'm not cause sulfur is only needed that much and I'm looking for other stuff).