What is a coconut crab?
coconut crab is a monstrous crab that reaches the size of not heard among other arthropods. Found on the islands in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, it was one of the species recorded by Charles Darwin on his legendary expedition. Samples can easily reach a diameter of up to 3 feet (1 m) and weigh up to £ 11 (5 kg), while women are significantly smaller than men.
In fact, the type of hermit crab is like those held as pets, an adult coconut crab does not share the custom of other hermit crabs to use a number of shells as armored mobile homes. Instead, the body of the coconut crab itself develops into a hard -like shell coating that does not limit growth and allows it to achieve a huge size. The name of the coconut crab comes from the ability to burst and eat coconuts with strong claws. Pressure from claws can move or pick up objects as heavy as 60 pounds (28 kg). The coconut crab can be different colors from red to purple to blue; Color depends on tOm, what is the island.
Most of their lives live these crabs along the coast of the islands that inhabit. During the reproduction period, the crabs heads into the jungle to join. Then the female heads into the sea to lay the eggs. There the eggs hatch quickly and remain in the water until the young crabs are born and mature enough to land.
Young coconut crabs use shells to protect, just like their smaller relatives, but stop using them when they are between two and three years. Coconut crab reaches the age of breeding around five years and during this time it regularly reduces its hard outer exoskeleton as it grows. He stops growing when he is about 40 years old, but can live for decades.
coconut crabs are also unique, because while breathing with gills that must be maintained, they can, can drown in water. Better suited to life on the ground, almost always remainNear near the sea where eggs are released. Mostly night creatures can easily travel with their strong legs and strong claws and spend the day hiding rock shelters or dead trees.
Many of them considered curiosity, coconut crabs were threatened by the arrival of tourists and the development of the food industry to provide consumers who consider them a delicacy, and in some places aphrodisiac. The expanding cities and the establishment of the development of tourism related to the natural post of crabs and some animals are introduced by human visitors to their islands. While some islands maintain prosperous populations, the trunk is clearly visible to crabs that inhabit other islands.