PEOPLE: Laverne Cox Talks Season 2 of Orange is the New Black. Below is a behind-the-scenes video of the cover shoot at her home in New York, and an edited transcript of an interview conducted May 8 in Palo Alto, before Cox addressed an audience at Stanford University.
, Reptile keeper and breeder, wildlife observation and ecology hobbyist. Hermit crabs are crabs. Crabs are invertebrates. Invertebrates are animals that do not have an internal skeleton. Instead, they have an exoskeleton. And ten legs. Reptiles are vertebrates. They have an internal skeleton, just like we do, and four legs (well, except for a few lizards that have only 2 or none, or snakes which have none).
Technically hermit crabs have 10 legs including the chelipeds. 2nd &3rd pair - walking legs used for movement. Gonopores are located at the base of the 3rd pair of legs on a female. 4th pair - stubby looking legs used to move in and out of shell. 5th pair - gill grooming appendages that end in pinchers for cleaning the gills and removing excrement from the shell. Male crabs have tufts of hair concealing openings at the base of the 5th pair of legs.