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Friends who often eat seafood know that crab is a very delicious high-grade ingredient. When it comes to crabs, everyone immediately thinks of king crabs, bread crabs, green crabs, and so on. What Xiaobian introduces to you today is the crab that can open coconuts with double claws.
Coconut Crab: The world's largest continental crab, it can grow up to half a meter long and weigh up to 6 kg. Their shells are very hard, with two strong and powerful giant claws, and they are also small tree climbers, especially good at climbing straight coconut trees, they can use strong double claws to peel off the hard coconut shells, so named after eating the coconut flesh in them.
Coconut crabs live up to 60 years, and usually eat not only coconuts, but also various fruits and nuts. Although they are a type of crab, they have adapted to life on land and will drown if they stay in the water for too long. They live mainly on a number of small islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. On some islands, rats seem to have become a big problem. On small islands that lack vegetation, rats prey more on coconut crabs because there is no other food source. But sometimes the situation is reversed, and scientists have observed several times that coconut crabs prey on mice.
It is also distributed in China's Hainan Province and Taiwan Province. Coconut crabs grow very slowly, growing a little bit per molt, usually in autumn and winter. Young crabs molt about 2 to 3 times a year, and as the individual grows larger, the number of molts decreases and decreases, and the frequency of molting of adult crabs is only once a year
Coconut crab, a specialty produced in Sulawesi, Indonesia, is famous for its tender flesh, but now the number has been greatly reduced. Young coconut crabs are often targeted by other animals such as monitor lizards, wild boars and large birds. However, the real threat to coconut crabs comes from humans. I hope that everyone will not eat these animals, but because they do not know that day, they will also be like dodo birds for us human mouths, and let them go extinct.