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Faced on the occasion of this wildlife, and long to get nervous tic. If you do not know that he's not hunting you. Skotinka scary. And health. In any case, among the arthropods - he is considered to be the largest of their representative.
In coconut crab there are many other "names" for example, crab or coconut crab a thief - it's really strange arthropod steal their prey. The travelers of the past centuries, who visited the islands, which lie in the West Pacific and the Indian Ocean, they say that the coconut crab hidden from prying eyes in the thick foliage of palm trees to then suddenly grab their prey, lying directly under a tree or near away
Coconut crab (lat. Birgus latro) actually crab is not at all in spite of the striking similarity in title to said arthropod relative. This is the land hermit crab belonging mean decapod.
Strictly speaking, called palm thief land arthropods can also be a stretch, as part of his life takes place in the marine element, and even light appear tiny crustaceans in the water column. Newborn babies with vulnerable soft abdomen busily crawling on the bottom of the pond in search of a reliable house, which can serve as a nutshell, and deserted clamshell.


V "childhood» birgus latro not too different from a hermit crab: he drags behind him his shell and almost all his time in the water. But coming from one larval state and leaving the water, he is no longer able to return, and at some point and wearing of a shell-house. Unlike bryushek hermit crabs his belly is not the Achilles heel and gradually hardens, and the tail curls up under the body, protecting the body from cuts. Thanks to a special light, he begins to breathe out of water.
In truth, most of the legends of his marked precisely this feature - the first Europeans arrived on the island, described as the coconut crabs hiding in the trees with a bushy claws creature that suddenly stretched to the ground and captured prey, up to sheep and goats. Scientists have confirmed that birgus latro has great strength and can lift up to 30 kg weight. However, they found that their ability to use the crab to be dragged from place to place the goods, preferring to feed on dead animals, crabs and fallen fruktami.
Due to what cancers manage to exist and equally comfortable in the water and on land? It turns out that the wise nature has provided them with two tools of breathing: light, ventilation air at the surface and gills that allow breathing underwater. That's only the second time with the body loses its function and palm pilferers have to completely switch to terrestrial way zhizni.


Those who wish to meet such a miracle would have to go to the tropics - coconut crabs are found on the islands of the Indian Ocean and in some western Pacific islands. To see them in the daylight challenging palm thieves are nocturnal, and solar time hiding in rock crevices or burrows in the sand lined with coconut fiber - it helps maintain the desired humidity level in zhilische.


And though the version that their front claws cancer is able to split a coconut, he failed miserably, his limbs, however, sufficiently developed to quickly climb up the trunk of a palm tree or a human bite phalanges. And by coconuts cancer really indifferent: nourishing flesh - the main dish in its menu, which he owes his "coconut" nazvaniem.Inogda crayfish diet enriched with fruits pandanov, and according to some sources, the palm and the thieves might eat their own kind. Starving cancer unerringly finds the closest "restaurant": internal navigation is a great sense of smell, which is and outputs it to a food source, even if it is for a lot kilometrov.Chto for the "thieves 'status' of cancer, but this is guilty of his uncontrollable desire to pull into its burrow all sorts of things out of the discharge, that is bad - and not very edible.
Coconut crab meat, not only is among the delicacies, but also applies to aphrodisiacs, so these arthropods are actively hunting. To prevent their extinction, some countries set strict limits on catching krabov.Telo coconut coconut crab, like all decapods, divided into a front part (cephalothorax), which has 10 legs and abdomen. Front, the largest pair of legs has large claws (claws), and left claw is much larger than the right. The next two pairs, like other hermits, great, powerful with sharp ends, coconut crabs are used for travel on vertical or inclined surfaces. The fourth pair of legs is much less than the first three, which allows young coconut crabs to settle in mollusk shells or coconut shells, carry protection. The adults use this pair for walking and climbing. Last, very little steam, which is usually hidden inside the carapace, females used to care for the eggs, and the males - for sparivaniya.
Except for the larval stage, coconut crabs can not swim, and they will certainly drown if will stay in the water for over an hour. For breathing they use a special organ called gill lungs. This organ can be interpreted as a developmental stage between gills and lungs, and is one of the most significant adaptations of the coconut crab habitat. Gill lungs contain tissue similar to that found in gills, but suited to the absorption of oxygen from the air and not from vody.Kak its name suggests, this crab eats coconuts, and actually be able to climb the coconut trees to a height of 6 meters, where powerful claws pinch off coconuts, if they are not yet available on the ground. If a fallen coconut does not break if dropped, the crab for a week or even two will be his gut until you get to the juicy pulp of the nut. If this bothers crab dreary job of work, he raises a coconut up a tree and throws it down in order to facilitate their work. Going back to the ground, they sometimes fall, but without damage to health may suffer a drop of 4 to 5 meters. Do not give up the coconut crab and other fruits, newborn turtles and fell. They also were seen for catching and eating a Polynesian krys
Since the beginning of June to the end of August palm thieves during the breeding season begins. Courtship process is long and tedious, but the pairing itself quite quickly. The fertilized egg is the female for several months on the lower side of the abdomen. When the eggs are ready for hatching, the female goes down to the sea shore at high tide and releases larvae into the water. Over the next three - four weeks floating in the water, the larvae go through several stages of development. After 25 - 30 days, had little crab sink to the bottom, settling in shells of gastropods, and are preparing to migrate to the ground. At this time, the kids are sometimes visited by land, and gradually lose the ability to breathe underwater, eventually moving to the main habitat. Coconut crabs reach sexual maturity in about five years after hatching, but reach their maximum size only to 40 years.