I have heard that this is behaviour peculiar to Indian crabs, though recently I did come across an email which said Alaskan crabs too behave the same way, (I suspect the sender is a person of Indian origin settled in the US:-)
According to people who tell the story, the crabs on the top cannot escape because the ones below are pulling them down. (Actually the top crabs have the option to jettison a limb and escape. Somwhat like in the erstwhile Iron Curtain countries:-)
Here are some ways I like to look at it:
1. The crabs below are ambitious. They want to get on top. The top crabs have the option to either get out or go down. Nothing wrong with that. It is competition.
2. All the crabs know the danger. They want to cling on to each other out of sheer fright. Result - none can escape to live. Splitting a company going down may permit some of the spin-offs to survive. Some management teams will not think that way.
3. The top crabs know the danger and ,because they see it as their duty to protect the crabs below, are supressing them to protect them:-) They tell stories about how safe the lower crabs are in their current postion and they should not think of leaving. Some management teams behave this way.
No matter what, the best they can hope for is to land up on someone's menu. Hopefully, some chefs convert the crabs into quality dishes:-)
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