West Sussex, England, on October 27, local time, a rare giant Japanese spider crab (estimated at 8,000-12,000 pounds) will be auctioned at the Summers Place auction house.
On the southeast coast of Japan, the world's largest crustacean, the Giant Japanese Spider Crab, is also known as the Tall Crab. It resembles a giant poisonous spider and is surprisingly large.
Giant spider crabs are fusiform in shape with pointed ends. A giant adult spider crab body is the size of a basketball, when it stretches out its long and sharp crab claws, the crab foot is 3 meters long, all the claws can cover a diameter range of 3 meters, the largest crab legs can stretch up to 4 meters, the maximum weight is 40 pounds, and the life span can be up to 100 years.
It also has more antennae than ordinary crabs, so it is called spider crab. Giant spider crabs usually prefer to eat some small creatures and do not eat people, and local fishermen call it "giant killer crabs". In fact, the spider crab is an indisputable animal, it will not take the initiative to provoke humans, nor will it eat people. The term "killer crab" is not worthy of the name.
Giant spider crabs usually live in the deep sea 400-3600 meters near Japan and have the ability to hunt giant creatures. Don't look at the spider crab's huge body, but its movements are very sensitive, and the small fish swimming in front of its eyes have almost no huge claws that can escape it.
In order to find the target of attack, this crab will quietly float on the surface of the sea, revealing two periscope eyes, while using the body's sensor, distinguish the moving objects on the sea surface, when found "prey", it will rush over as fast as possible, with eight sharp claws fiercely entangled, and then use two large and hard claws to attack. Like other crabs, spider crabs have hard exoskeletons, an advantage that protects it from large predators such as octopuses.
With its shell, it can also blend into the rocky seabed, decorating its shell with sponges and other animals to provide itself with a perfect camouflage.
Because spider crabs live on the ocean floor all year round, although they lay millions of eggs a year and live a long lifespan, fishermen's fishing reports in recent years say that spider crabs are catching fewer and fewer. Exactly how many of them there are, it is not known.
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