Lets eat!!
Posted on 11/28/2016 1:43:02 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The truth is coconut crabs are immense - up to 18 inches long and 9 pounds - and their oddities do not end with bodily superlatives...
In practice, however, Oka’s research was a brief sojourn into the world of arthropod-inflicted pain.
Crab pincers snagged the fleshy part of his palm during the study. Twice. “When I was pinched, I couldn’t do anything until they unfastened their claws,” Oka said. “Although it was a few minutes, I felt eternal hell.”
Despite the threat of a few minutes of hellish pain, Oka and his colleagues remained undeterred. “We are going to continue the study of their life history,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewstribune.com ...
I can sell large coconut crabs to restaurants for good money if I catch them alive. It’s the alive part that’s the problem
Lets eat!!
and they would most likely eat all your butter.
Even better butter filled crab
lol
Bro In Law was in a P3 Squad on Diego Garcia and used to tell stories of these things combing Coconut Palms and snipping of the nuts..Crazy
The article clearly understated the danger of crabby crustaceans!
One look at the photo posted in #2, and it is clear that they have personalty in spades!!
From a bar in Oklahoma?
Best to start with the gasoline and ice pick method.
Looking at the photo in #2 consider nuclear.
Used to whose end?
My ancestors came out of the Scottish Highlands.
Not a one of them ever saw a coconut.
I was in the South Pacific in May and one of the local women told me about a 3-legged cat she and her husband had adopted. A coconut crab was responsible for the 4th limb becoming detached from the kitty.
Just saying...crushing the crab’s pincers seems better than “eternal Hell.”
The coconut crab (Birgus latro) is a species of terrestrial hermit crab, also known as the robber crab or palm thief. It is the largest land-living arthropod in the world, and is probably at the upper size limit for terrestrial animals with exoskeletons in recent times, with a weight of up to 4.1 kg (9.0 lb). It can grow to up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in length from leg to leg.
WTF!!!!
I don’t know - do coconuts migrate?
Check out the photo in #2, you may want to reconsider.
You forgot to add the gasoline.
Looks great!
When WE eating?
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