The coconut crabs that climb on the ground and the seabirds flying in the sky should be two kinds of animals that cannot be hit by eight rods, but some researchers have witnessed that the coconut crabs not only successfully hunted seabirds, but even brutally divided the corpses! It's terrible to have researchers shout straight!
According to the Daily Mail, Leder, a researcher at Dartmouth College in the United States, went to the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to conduct research, and witnessed a coconut crab at night, climbed into the nest of the flock of birds, caught a seabird, and then its large claws were like the jaws of a lion, clamping on the body of the seabird, and the wings were even broken and incapacitated.
After that, the seabird lay helplessly on the ground, and the other 5 coconut crabs also gathered to split the body of this seabird, Leder recalled, the scene was terrible!
Coconut crabs are the largest invertebrates on land, weighing more than 4 kilograms and stretching widths of up to 1 meter, mostly playing the role of scavengers in ecosystems, Rydell said, coconut crabs actively hunt large vertebrates is quite rare, coconut crabs may be able to dominate local ecosystems and may prevent other animals such as seabirds, but this is only hypothetical, and birds are unlikely to nest in coconut crab habitats, and vice versa, so whether such hunting behavior is normal or accidental remains to be seen.
Coconut crabs mostly inhabit the coast of the tropics and some subtropical archipelagos, including the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Tropical Islands, the Izu Islands and the Ryukyu Islands in the south of Japan can also be found traces, Taiwan's east coast, Green Island, Orchid Island, Hengchun Peninsula have traces of coconut crabs, in Taiwan has been listed as a conservation animal, there are Japanese scholars study, coconut crab crab claws can produce 3300 Newtons (336.5 kg weight) of the grasping force, enough to destroy the coconut shell inside the pulp, hence the name.
The infinitely powerful coconut crab is the power king of the animal kingdom, and scientists have found for the first time that coconut crabs can hunt huge vertebrate organisms. American scientist Ryder filmed this "creepy" scene in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean and began to study this new hunting pattern.
In the clip, coconut crabs swoop into sleeping seagulls in a tree nest, and coconut crabs break one of the gull's wings through a claw as strong as a lion's jaw, pulling the other side to the ground. The coconut crab then presses the seagull with its pincers, and the seagull can only wave its other wing and fiercely resist with its beak. Only the helpless seagulls were defeated by the strong coconut crabs, and the other 5 coconut crabs eventually appeared and divided the seagulls.
Some Japanese scientists said that the giant claw clamping force of the coconut crab can reach 80 to 100 times its own weight, and he estimates that the coconut crab in the fragment weighs about 2 kilograms and can easily break the bones of any bird. Capturing the amazing scene, Ryder plans to place cameras in the crabs' burrows to explore their hunting habits, and Ryder's discovery proves that coconut crabs may dominate the ecosystem of their habitat.