Many believe coconut crabs are the reason Earhart’s remains haven’t been found. Omnivorous, attracted to shiny objects, and notorious for quickly carting off a carcass to its burrow.
There was a show on the other night and they put a pig’s carcass out on the island with bright strings attached to the bones to see what happened. (The crabs ate, then carried the bones to their holes).
It was amazing (and disgusting) to see all the different types of crabs, and the number of crabs.
The researcher said that it could be likely that the person was weak from hunger and thirst, perhaps injured, and just laying there close to death. But finally too weak to fend off the crabs as they started their feast - eating the person alive.
I can’t imagine.