Sentences with phrase «coconut crabs»

Researchers captured 29 coconut crabs on Okinawa Island in Japan and had them clamp down on steel force sensors.

«The claws of coconut crabs can generate a force 80 to 100 times the mass of their body,» says Oka.

A popular night walk at the resort enables travelers to encounter giant coconut crabs in the coral rag forest.

These volcanic islands contain coral reefs, are the home of over two dozen species of seabirds, endangered and threatened sea turtles, marine mammals and giant coconut crabs.

Very little is known about coconut crabs and the island was home to the first study on them to be conducted in Africa.

In line with this, Laidre found that if coconut crabs were living on an island, birds were less likely to, and vice versa.

Before long, five other coconut crabs arrived on the scene, maybe lured by the commotion and scent of blood.

If enough coconut crabs hunt prey like this, it could have substantial ecological impacts.

On these small islands, adult coconut crabs are by far the largest land animals.

It is the first time coconut crabs have been seen actively hunting large animals, and suggests they rule their island homes.

A scientist investigating coconut crabs in a remote Indian Ocean archipelago found evidence that the crabs, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrates, make terrifying sneak attacks on seabirds.

«I didn't have the heart to videotape five coconut crabs tearing apart the bird later,» he says.

Coconut crabs live on only some of the islands.

On other islands with large populations of birds, those birds might help to keep their islands crab - free by eating juvenile coconut crabs, preventing them from colonizing there.

Laidre had heard stories that coconut crabs killed rats, and he later witnessed them munching on the rodents on the islands.

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Because the crabs» pinching forces were significantly correlated to their body weights, the researchers calculated that a 4 - kilogram coconut crab should be able to exert a shocking force of 3300 newtons with its claw.

After gorging on coconuts the crabs livers are like pate, and they eat it on bread, still hot, on dip into luscious fruit compotes and oils of bane de que'il.

Alongside them are characters voiced by the likes of Nicole Scherzinger and Rachel House, but it is Jemaine Clement «s Tamatoa, a giant treasure - hoarding coconut crab from Lalotai, the Realm of Monsters, who nearly steals the show with a stand - out, almost Bowie-esque musical number called «Shiny».

Swimming; snorkelling; diving; dhow cruises; birdwatching; fishing; water sports; walking; doing absolutely nothing at all Suni antelope, Ader's duiker, turtle hatchlings, dolphins and endemic Indian ocean species, rare coconut crabs

Photo 3: Palmyra Coconut Crab I have been very fortunate in my nature encounters — getting opportunities to go places few ever go.

A biologist witnesses a coconut crab taking out a blue - footed booby and documents the balance of the animals in an Indian Ocean archipelago.

Coconut crabs (Birgus latro), or robber crabs, are imposing.

If an island has lots of birds, coconut crabs will find it hard to colonise, as they start off small and vulnerable.

One night, Laidre filmed a coconut crab slowly climb a tree.

A COCONUT crab has been spotted hunting and devouring a seabird.

Chagos is ideal for studying coconut crabs: it is in pristine condition, is surrounded by one of the largest marine reserves on earth and has lots of coconut crabs, making them easier to find and observe.

Breaking a bird's wing is easy for a coconut crab, says Shin - ichiro Oka at the Okinawa Churashima Foundation Research Center in Japan.

A study earlier this year looked at the force a coconut crab's claw can exert in the lab.

The monster in this horror - film scenario is a coconut crab, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate, which has a leg span wider than a meter and can weigh more than four kilograms.

Laidre suspects that the coconut crabs act as a «ruler of the atoll,» keeping ground - nesting bird species from finding homes on crab - filled islands.

«He was sitting and eating a sandwich, and this coconut crab came right out its burrow in the middle of the daytime when... a red - footed booby... landed outside of its burrow,» Laidre says.

Exactly how strong a pinch from a coconut crab's claw is, though, was a mystery — until now.

The world's largest land - living crustaceans, coconut crabs (Birgus latro, pictured), can grow up to a meter long, but their real claim to fame is their strength: They've been known to lift more than 30 kilograms and earn their names by cracking into coconuts to eat.

As the researchers write today in PLOS ONE, the coconut crab's powerful claw is added evidence that they diverged from humble hermit crabs some 4 million years ago.

Although MPAs can work well at protecting habitats like coral reefs and nonmigratory wildlife such as the coconut crab, the authors say that more effort needs to be made to protect migratory species such as the green turtle and the hawksbill turtle from poachers, marine debris, and fishing gear entanglement.

The coconut crab, Birgus latro, lives on islands in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

The island is also home to the world's largest land crab: the robber crab (also known as the coconut crab).

Coconut crabs can reach up to nearly 18 inches in diameter and are the largest living land crabs in the world.

You can also expect to see a lot of protected species here, including turtles, whales, dolphins, giant clams, coconut crabs, and many other species!

There are a few species of freshwater fish (including mudskippers and several other species of teleost fish), mangrove crabs and coconut crabs.

So little is known about the coconut crab (the world's biggest land crab) that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists their conservation status as «data deficient».

& Beyond Mnemba Island has a small yet stable population of these enormous crabs and recently hosted researchers from Sweden's Gothenburg University in Sweden, who conducted a study of the coconut crabs on Mnemba and nearby Chumbe Island (the first study of its kind conducted in Africa).

Also available are night treks through the jungle to search for turtles laying eggs, fire flies and coconut crabs.

Still unspoiled, this wonderful creation fronting the Pacific Ocean is home to unique sea creatures, among them the coconut crab.

I planned to spend my birthday differently from what I used to do by following the tatus (coconut crabs) trappers up Mt. Iraya (3,310 ft), that volcano looming in the background when one is in Basco, Batanes.

This coconut crab, with its psychedelic colors and giant claws, is rare in most parts of the Pacific.