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| Meet The World’s Largest Crab That Feeds On Birds And Breaks Bones by holyme62: 8:26am On Mar 05, 2020 |
Nature holds a variety of animals, the human mind is yet to comprehend. One of such is the coconut crab. Powerful enough to rip open a coconut, climb trees, break the bones of birds and feed on its flesh. The coconut crab is one of nature’s gigantic aquatic and terrestrial species. It is a specie of the terrestrial hermit crab also referred to as robber crab or palm thief. This gigantic crab live on both water and land, they mostly spend more time on land than in the sea, it is the largest land-living arthropod in the world. The crab posses large clamps strong enough to snap the bones of any attacker it gets hold of. According to research, the coconut crab pincers are some of the world’s most powerful and most dangerous weapon in the animal kingdom. The grip of the claws is likened to that of a bite from a lion’s jaws. The coconut crab, Mbudya Island Tanzania | Image: DTrip As the name connotes, coconut crabs feed mainly on coconuts, hence why they climb trees so they can reach coconuts. The crabs can climb almost anything, that can be climbed. The pincers it posses enable it to be able to grab hold of anything for hours – be it branches of a tree, walls of a home or the chains within a fence. The process at which they open up coconuts is unnerving, as they can tear a coconut apart with just their bare claws. Although, coconuts aren’t the only food the gigantic specie is said to feed on. Reports have shown that the coconut crab feeds off on the flesh of other creatures. The crab has been known to hunt and kill birds, attack and eat live pigs. The crab would climb to the top of trees, to attack birds and drag them to underground burrows where it digs as its dwelling place. National Geographic Explorer Mark Laidre describes the attack strategy as a horrific scene. He once witnessed a coconut crab attack a >>>>continue to read from here and view more photos
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| Re: Meet The World’s Largest Crab That Feeds On Birds And Breaks Bones by zoer(m): 8:33am On Mar 05, 2020 |
This one go break Buha.ri bones... 1 Like |
| Re: Meet The World’s Largest Crab That Feeds On Birds And Breaks Bones by dawnomike(m): 8:45am On Mar 05, 2020 |
Grandmaster of crabs!!! 1 Like |
| Re: Meet The World’s Largest Crab That Feeds On Birds And Breaks Bones by siwhoh(m): 9:15am On Mar 05, 2020 |
I miss eating crabs |
| Re: Meet The World’s Largest Crab That Feeds On Birds And Breaks Bones by Olayinka777(m): 8:32pm On Mar 06, 2020 |
siwhoh:Me too! To over 15 years I tasted crab last. I grew up in an area in Lagos called Iwaya around Unilag,crab was an everyday thing then. 1 Like |
| Re: Meet The World’s Largest Crab That Feeds On Birds And Breaks Bones by Menace2Society(m): 12:29am On Mar 07, 2020 |
zoer:Which Buha.ri? |
| Re: Meet The World’s Largest Crab That Feeds On Birds And Breaks Bones by PRISTINEMUSCLES: 11:47am On Mar 08, 2020 |
And one nicompoop will seat at one side and say THERE IS NO GOD. THERE IS GOD |
| Re: Meet The World’s Largest Crab That Feeds On Birds And Breaks Bones by NaijadrivaCars: 5:58pm On Mar 08, 2020 |
 Seen on Natgeowild |
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