27+ Coconut Crab Spider Christmas Island Background. The reason they're called robber crabs is because they steal everything, christmas island marketing manager linda cash told aap. The coconut crab (birgus latro) is a species of terrestrial hermit crab, also known as the robber crab or palm thief.

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Apparently their overall size and strength of the coconut. In february 2009 it was joined with the second. Coconut crab conservation in vanuatu.

The largest population of coconut crabs live on christmas island, australia.

The resort became the island's de facto animal refuge. Now that the rush is over, i have a few specific questions about our curator also tracked down someone on island who did some research on them and he's. Howstuffworks looks at these monstrous crustaceans. The coconut crab is a large edible land crab related to the hermit crab and are found in the tropical indian and pacific oceans.