Are these for real?

[MarsGodOfWar 8]

Now, if that's not SCARY, I don't know what is!!!

 

Coconut Crab

 

How would you like to find this on the side of your trash can!!!!!!! (or anywhere!!!!) --

 

Our friends in Australia sent us a picture of a Coconut Crab. This is pretty interesting.....

 

Coconut Crab (Birgus latro) is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. It is known for its ability to crack coconuts with its strong pincers in order to eat the contents.

 

It is sometimes called the robber crab because some coconut crabs are rumored to steal shiny items such as pots and silverware from houses and tents

The second photo gives you a good idea of how large these crabs are - a coconut crab is seeking food from a black trashcan.

 

 

 

COCONUT CRABS

The coconut crab is a large edible land crab related to the hermit crab, and are found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans .. They eat coconuts for a living! How would you like to be on an island and come across a crab that is more than 3 feet from head to tail and weighs up to 40 pounds, with a pair of large pincers strong enough to open coconuts! They can climb trees too, but they only eat coconuts that have already fallen to the ground. Coconut crab meat has been considered a local delicacy.

 

And you're afraid of spiders??!!!!

[Ergodyne 19]

I looked them up, they're for real alright be handy to have one at Christmas for those bloody Brazil nuts

[FatherMojo 2]

Scary!

 

Looks like something from the 60's tv show The Outer Limits.

 

 

FatherMojo

[MarsGodOfWar 8]

I love eating crab. If they eat coconuts all the time it makes me wonder what they taste like?

[Owl_ 0]

WOW! I've heard about the coconut crabs before but until you posted these pictures, I never realized just how large a crab they really were. I've heard that they are delicious when cooked! But glad I'm not the one who has to tackle them to get them into the pot!!!

Edited June 10, 2010 by Owl_

[englishinsiam 15]

I love eating crab. If they eat coconuts all the time it makes me wonder what they taste like?

 

 

I'm told my Jizz tastes like Leo so what do you think ?

[Upharsin 0]

Our friends in Australia sent us a picture of a Coconut Crab.

It seems like 95% of the word's strangest creatures are found in Australia...

[MarsGodOfWar 8]

It seems like 95% of the word's strangest creatures are found in Australia...

 

No shit! Deadliest spiders, deadliest snakes, largest crabs, crocodile dundee... LOL.

[kaiser71 30]

Wow, second picture was a shocker.

[GlynRhedyn 32]

WOW! I've heard about the coconut crabs before but until you posted these pictures, I never realized just how large a crab they really were. I've heard that they are delicious when cooked! But glad I'm not the one who has to tackle them to get them into the pot!!!

You have a pot big enough to cook one??? If so invite me to dinner one day as I love seafood especially shellfish.

Glyn.

[facilitator1031 3]

Now, if that's not SCARY, I don't know what is!!!

 

Coconut Crab

 

How would you like to find this on the side of your trash can!!!!!!! (or anywhere!!!!) --

 

Our friends in Australia sent us a picture of a Coconut Crab. This is pretty interesting.....

 

Coconut Crab (Birgus latro) is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. It is known for its ability to crack coconuts with its strong pincers in order to eat the contents.

 

It is sometimes called the robber crab because some coconut crabs are rumored to steal shiny items such as pots and silverware from houses and tents

The second photo gives you a good idea of how large these crabs are - a coconut crab is seeking food from a black trashcan.

 

 

 

COCONUT CRABS

The coconut crab is a large edible land crab related to the hermit crab, and are found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans .. They eat coconuts for a living! How would you like to be on an island and come across a crab that is more than 3 feet from head to tail and weighs up to 40 pounds, with a pair of large pincers strong enough to open coconuts! They can climb trees too, but they only eat coconuts that have already fallen to the ground. Coconut crab meat has been considered a local delicacy.

 

And you're afraid of spiders??!!!!

i'm givin' up on lobster! BRING ON THE CRABS