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Science Frontiers ONLINE No. 104: Mar-Apr 1996 |
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It's "smothers" not "pods"
An Alaskan biologist writes that those large congregations of king crabs found in northern waters (SF#102) are properly called "smothers." The term "pod" refers to family groups, such as those groups of orcas patrolling the British Columbia coast.
(Home, Scott; personal communication, January 26, 1996)