Hi all!
It shouldabeen the crab that love the coconut - have you seen a coconut crab before? Here's one, we captured in Sipadan and let go - Birgus latro the largest land athropod in the world, grows up to 5kgs. The one we got might have been around 3 kgs. There are two forms - blue and orange with the blue form being more common. This one is blue.
We purposely went after this crab at night and found two, this was the second one that we actually captured, well, I lied - didn't actually captured it. We used a pvc pipe that the guy grabbed with his pinchers and that was how I brought it to our place. He hanged there for about 10 minutes.
He became a model first thing the next morning and gave posts no human model can do.
We had a great time in Sipadan and many things happened for first time for me - including he mite-bites, still scratching here.
Hamid.
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It is also called as the robber crab.. Yes, I think I had seen the blue coconut crab before. . However, the one I saw not as large as the photo shown. Actually I saw it when people order as food. Dr, is it the same? That one is smaller in size but it is in blue color also.
Susan, I think they're the same. Frankly, I think, it makes good eating. All crabs do. I was with Mr Maklarin (now Assistant Director of Sabah Parks - in charge of research). He cut trails on Sipadan to survey the Coconut crabs. It was funny, because the idea to survey them came about after he saw a large coconut crab in a cooking pot of the army - right there on Sipadan! I'm sure the aroma was sort of crabbish. No, I won't eat one, unless being ordered by Abu Sayyef.
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