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Coconut Crabs Eat Everything from Kittens to, Maybe, Amelia Earhart
According to one theory, Earhart did not drown in the Pacific but instead crashed on the remote Nikumaroro atoll, where she was eaten by coconut crabs
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By Rachel Nuwer
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM
DECEMBER 26, 2013
Among terrestrial arthropods, the phylum that includes crustaceans, spiders and insects, coconut crabs are the largest on the planet. The crabs, which live on islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans, can grow up to three feet across and weigh nine pounds, Wired reports.
To get that big, the crabs need to eat a lot. Environmental Graffiti explains:
Coconut crabs come forth irregularly at night to feed, loot, raid and plunder. The crab is known for its ability to crack or pound open coconuts with the strong pincers or two large chelae it possesses in order to eat the contents.
The soft white meat of the coconut forms the main part of the crab's diet. However, it also eats simple foodstuffs such as fruit and leaves as well as more 'extreme' items like crustaceans' exoskeletons that have been moulted. This may serve as a calcium source for the growth of the creature's own shell.
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