Coconut Crab

connoroh

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These things are fucking terrifying. I'm so happy i live where i live.

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These are the largest land living arthropod in the world.

They can reach the age of 60 years old.
 
Coconut crabs live in areas from the Indian to the central Pacific Ocean. Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean has the largest and best-preserved population in the world. Other Indian Ocean populations exist on the Seychelles, especially Aldabra, Glorioso Islands, Astove Island, Assumption Island and Cosmoledo, but the coconut crab is extinct on the central islands. They are also known on several of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Large numbers roam freely in the British-owned Chagos Archipelago,

also known as the British Indian Ocean Territories (BIOT). They are

protected on these islands from being hunted and/or eaten, with fines

of up to 1500 British pounds (roughly $3000 USD) per crab consumed. On Mauritius and Rodrigues they are extinct.[6]
 
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