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Coconut crab
on: July 07, 2010, 03:57:22 PM
NO, NO AND NO  :o



This is a coconut crab. It gets up to 3ft in length and 40lb in weight. They steal shiny things like cooking pots from your tent... OMFG... and crack open coconuts with ease.
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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #1 on: July 07, 2010, 04:01:10 PM
Pass the butter please... :drool:

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #2 on: July 07, 2010, 05:52:42 PM
They are pretty amazing.  I saw a couple when I was in Vanuatu. 

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #3 on: July 07, 2010, 06:11:19 PM
Scary...  :ahhh

I never heard of a crab like that!

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #4 on: July 07, 2010, 06:54:51 PM
Sod that :o
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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #5 on: July 07, 2010, 07:43:01 PM
That is a beauty.





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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #6 on: July 07, 2010, 07:48:09 PM
I don't deny it's an incredible looking beastie, but I really wouldn't want it messing about in my yard!  :ahhh
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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #7 on: July 07, 2010, 09:10:17 PM
I read it is considered a delicacy and an aphrodisiac by some Pacific Islanders...

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #8 on: July 07, 2010, 09:14:08 PM
Quote from: Spork, Lord of Lime Jello! on July 07, 2010, 09:10:17 PM
I read it is considered a delicacy and an aphrodisiac by some Pacific Islanders...

Good grief, if I had just done battle with that thing I don't think I'd been in the mood for sex  :o
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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #9 on: July 07, 2010, 09:15:49 PM
Quote from: Chako on July 07, 2010, 07:43:01 PM
That is a beauty.







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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #10 on: July 07, 2010, 09:23:02 PM
Quote from: nuphoria on July 07, 2010, 09:14:08 PM
Quote from: Spork, Lord of Lime Jello! on July 07, 2010, 09:10:17 PM
I read it is considered a delicacy and an aphrodisiac by some Pacific Islanders...

Good grief, if I had just done battle with that thing I don't think I'd been in the mood for sex  :o
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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #11 on: July 07, 2010, 10:20:17 PM
If I find that thing in my yard I'd jump for a knife and a bamboo stick.

Does spear works for crabs?

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #12 on: July 07, 2010, 10:25:02 PM
Ok what kind of mallet are we talking to crack the shell on one of these beauties  :drool:
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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #13 on: July 07, 2010, 10:29:57 PM


Did someone say Coconut crab? :D

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #14 on: July 07, 2010, 11:21:22 PM
Quote from: nuphoria on July 07, 2010, 03:57:22 PM
NO, NO AND NO  :o

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This is a coconut crab. It gets up to 3ft in length and 40lb in weight. They steal shiny things like cooking pots from your tent... OMFG... and crack open coconuts with ease.

that's pretty cool! and I'm sure it's like the old zombie movies and you can out-run it, unless you trip and then it gets ya! :ahhh
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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #15 on: July 08, 2010, 12:38:36 AM
First time to see a crab that big! Nuphs, isn't it harmful/dangerous?

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #16 on: July 08, 2010, 12:44:22 AM
Well I'm sure it would hurt like hell if it got it's claws on you, but otherwise it's just a big scary crab I think!

It's the largest land living arthropod, (WIKI) but this fella doesn't seem too bothered by it  :o

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #17 on: July 08, 2010, 01:45:56 AM
Probably his pet.

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #18 on: July 08, 2010, 02:10:47 AM
that is something :o


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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #19 on: July 08, 2010, 04:34:05 AM
Wow thats a lot of crab to eat, I'm thinking spicy garlic crab  :drool:
Hope its not endangered, its the kind of thing that if you don't eat it.... it might eat you  :)
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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #20 on: July 08, 2010, 06:11:19 AM
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Pass the butter please... :drool:

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #21 on: July 08, 2010, 09:50:30 AM
Not seen one of those in the shell but have seen a few Japanese spider crabs.  They were pretty big. My boys gave them a very wide berth :D

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #22 on: July 08, 2010, 12:00:15 PM
Quote from: Neil on July 08, 2010, 09:50:30 AM
Not seen one of those in the shell but have seen a few Japanese spider crabs.  They were pretty big. My boys gave them a very wide berth :D



Yeah, luckily those buggers stay in the water  :o

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #23 on: July 08, 2010, 10:28:00 PM
Quote from: Neil on July 08, 2010, 09:50:30 AM
Not seen one of those in the shell but have seen a few Japanese spider crabs.  They were pretty big. My boys gave them a very wide berth :D


That look's more like some sort of Chaos spawn :o
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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #24 on: July 08, 2010, 10:55:25 PM
ALIEN INVADERS!!!!  :ahhh  :D thats a big crab uh  :D

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #25 on: July 08, 2010, 11:03:18 PM
Critters like that I think are why S&W makes things like this:



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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #26 on: July 08, 2010, 11:25:34 PM
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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #27 on: July 09, 2010, 12:26:53 AM
Actually, though I live in one of the seafood capitols of the world, I don't eat it at all.

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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #28 on: September 21, 2010, 07:42:25 AM
Thought I would drag this one up to add a little video I just saw.

Giant Spider crab molting....  :ahhh


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Re: Coconut crab
Reply #29 on: September 21, 2010, 07:55:57 AM
How the hell did it get all the legs out of the old shell intact and curved under?

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