Crab worker

Naturalists believe annual disposable red crab migration from different parts of the island to the water to spawn one of the wonders of nature ... purple, purple, red cliffs, dotted with bright shellfish shells ... It is believed that on the island there are more than 120 million! That is, on average, the crab on every square meter of the island.



literally impossible to step foot so as not to crush the unwary red crab, especially during seasonal migrations, when within 10 days, millions of crustaceans are moving to the coast. Christmas Island was first seen in 1615, and in 1643 the English captain Minorz arrived here on Christmas day - this island got its name ... In 1888, Britain annexed the island at the insistence of the British naturalist Murray, who found here the signs of phosphates. Since Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean is considered a major phosphorite deposits. About crabs - not a word. Although it decapods - one of the main attractions and the real masters of the island. Literally impossible to step foot in order not to crush the unwary red crab, especially during seasonal migrations, when within 10 days, millions of crustaceans are moving to the coast. They crawl through roads, railways, towns, their crushed cars, trains, destroying the locals. Their lives are fifteen species. The largest - palm thieves. This giant among land crabs - their weight reaches three kilograms. And the most numerous - red crabs. Red crabs, moreover - unique orderlies - paluyu eat leaves, rotting fruit fruit trees, flowers obsolete, do not stop the giant snails and even bird corpses. Therefore, the island is very clean.