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Coconut Crab

[i]Birgus latro [/i] October 2010

Coconut Crab
Hix, 10 Jun 2011
    • Hix
      Birgus latro
      October 2010
      10 Jun 2011
    • DavidBrown
      @Hix How many places have you seen coconut crabs? I see that you saw them in the Christmas Islands also.
      1 Oct 2023
    • Hix
      @DavidBrown I saw my first wild one in Palau back in the 90's.
      In Niue I was able to find a few smaller ones like this one, but saw larger ones that had been caught by the locals (using coconuts as bait).
      But Christmas Island (the one in the Indian Ocean) has the largest and densest population in the world because the locals don't eat the crabs. I saw literally hundreds in the time I was there.
      1 Oct 2023
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