The coconut crab is the largest crab in the world. They can grow up to 3 feet and weigh up to 10 pounds. They can even crack coconuts with their pincers!
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And I thought I was afraid of spiiiiiddders but these wicked guys really DO MRAD A LEASH. OMG CRRRRRAAABNBBBBBBS
Meat is very sweet much better than regular crabs because they feed on only coconuts. I tried in Fiji Islands
I know a few girls that have crabs bigger than that!
Looks like something that somehow survived, from the prehistoric period.
Just why do people want to eat every creature they see ? Very strange!!!!!!
Yikes spiders with shells!!!!! RUN!!!!
Looks like something out of a 60’s horror movie except they must be great smothered in garlic butter.
Someone should tell that dog to run
Yum, as to why we eat every animal or insect it’s better than just eating junk food, think of how much healthier people would be if they would cut back or stop eating junk foods, yes eating healthier is expensive , but by cutting out the junk people could eat healthier / wants & needs
Yeah but how do they taste with drawn butter?
Wondering how you get a three foot crab into a soup pot????
Clearly never heard of the Japanese spider crab with just their legs can reach up to 15 feet and the crab itself weighing up to 42 lbs.
Clearly you have never met my neighbors wife
Oh hell no they would creep me out . I dont care if they say they only want fruits or what ever they would scare the crap out of me .
Steve said in Guam, the natives climb to top to get the coconuts and many have lost fingers to these crabs!!
Actually the Japanese spider crab is the world’s largest crab species
So, can I make coconut crab cakes out of them without actually adding coconut to the patty?
Paul Boyce You have not eaten until you have eaten one of these. They beat the kind you get from the Ocean to pieces…
That’s what ate Amelia Earhart.
Keep it up there or where ever it lives.
Run doggie!!!
Well,one is enough for dinner🍔
WOW! Look like giant spiders! Freaky!!!
Are they good to eat? Eating coconut bet the meat is sweet. MMM MMM coconut crab 🦀
No thanks. Judging from how hard it is for me to crack open a coconut these guys can have all the coconut they want.
we were able to touch and hold them on an island called liffou near new caledonia-big nasty looking creatures-but quiet on their back
thank God we dont grow coconuts in the northeast!!!!! Ewwww!
And they taste just like coconut, yummy. Ate a bunch of them in Guam.
Are’nt they dangerous if they can crack a coconut with their pinchers
Never knew these existed.
Wow, looks like something out of Jurasic Park
Stay away from my coconuts!!!
WOW!!!!! Never heard of this creature before. Looks like a Giant Spider to me. EEEEEK needs to stay where the Coconut grow.
They are testable. But can be hard to catch.
Guam’s coconut crab are more colorful from what I recall and smaller, maybe because they had shorter lives or shrinking habitat. Found them at night on the ground when they would change trees. Easily snap 3″ diameter branches in their pincers. I’m told they’re hard to find nowadays. Tree snakes more prevalent, but not a delicacy.
Holy shit. That’s bigger than my little dog.
Wow. Look at the size of those hummers!!
Screw that. I won’t be going there
Hey Kim, they like coconut too! Watch out. Lol
FAbulous ……. would love to get my hands on one of these …… coconut curry glory 101
Yes please 👍🏻
I would like to put one of these guys in speaker Pelosi bed..
Are they editable? Like a sea crab?
Thai coconut crab soup 😋 😁
That dog had better get out of there!
They taste of what they eat hence the name
Soft-shell crabs in season??