That creature is kinda cute in its own grim way.
Giant coconut crabs feed on birds (2017)
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#12Has anyone seen the whole video? To clarify/calm down my paranoid mind of a staged crab attack to a bird whose wing was broken earlier possibly by humans and so that we have full proof beyond social media cuts. ? ps: red footed boobies don't seem to avoid those islands: https://www.livingoceansfoundation.org/seabirds-chagos-islan...
IIRC, the full video (or a different one showing a crab killing a Booby - I can't find it at the moment) first shows the crab climbing a tree, approaching a sleeping bird, and breaking one of its wings. The bird falls out of the tree, and the crab climbs down the tree to attack the bird again on the ground.
This behavior might be seen as an extension of how they go after coconuts and other fruit.
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#13I find spiders quite freaky, yet I find crabs quite endearing. This strikes me as very odd.
ps. Ive been actively trying to overcome my aversion to spiders by handling them when I put them out. Starting with very tiny ones and working my way up.
Re: Giant coconut crabs feed on birds (2017)
#14That video looked like something straight out of a low budget horror film, poor bird.
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#15I find spiders quite freaky, yet I find crabs quite endearing. This strikes me as very odd. ps. Ive been actively trying to overcome my aversion to spiders by handling them when I put them out. Starting with very tiny ones and working my way up.
Tiny jumping spiders were the worst for me growing up. Nowadays don't mind them, don't live in an area with anything venomous so no rational fear
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#17I find spiders quite freaky, yet I find crabs quite endearing. This strikes me as very odd. ps. Ive been actively trying to overcome my aversion to spiders by handling them when I put them out. Starting with very tiny ones and working my way up.
Aversion to spiders more likely to save your life and allow you to pass on genes, makes sense.
Re: Giant coconut crabs feed on birds (2017)
#18Not only can that monstrous crab eat birds; it can crack coconuts open with its claws.
That's why it's called the "coconut" crab.
I wonder if it's ever attacked human beings -- you know, like people napping at the beach.
Nature never ceases to amaze me.
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#20In other news, chicken are being forced a grain diet seems cruel.