If you lived on the island, you would also be able to meet this terrible creature in the yard of his house ... Bashny.Net

If you start talking about the most bizarre and suggestive fear of sea creatures, the giant crabs have been champions on this list. However, there are other kinds of crabs that are perfectly accustomed to the land.

One of them - a coconut crab, or as it is called, the coconut crab. Adults of this species are land lifestyle. Palm thieves settled in the tropics, on the shores of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. The fact that these huge creatures live on the land, fills me with horror.

Coconut crab - one of the largest representatives of arthropods. These giants reach a maximum of 40 centimeters in length and as much as 4 kilograms in weight.



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Also, these crabs are unusual boast excellent health. Incredibly, these centenarians live about 60 years.



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Coconut crabs are so named because of their basic diet, which consists of coconuts. To get food, they are rising to the top of trees and knocked out 1-2 coconut.



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Then they climb down from a palm tree, breaking open a coconut with their powerful claws and start delicacy.



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But coconuts - not the only source of food for these giants. They also like to be pampered fruits, nuts and grains. I hope that people are not part of their healthy diet.



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Although coconut crabs look quite scary, is very intelligent and friendly creatures. They use their claws to protect only when they are in immediate danger.



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However, I do not care ceases terribly when I look at them.



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Unlike their marine cousins, coconut crabs are fully adapted to life on land. If they are immersed for a long time in the water, they may even drown.



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Fortunately, these huge creatures inhabit only a small part of our planet.



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Although these crabs are not as dangerous as it might seem at first glance, I'd be scared to death if I had to meet with. Tell us about these looks pretty creepy, but still friendly creatures your friends.

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