Coconut Crab facts LARGEST Terrestrial Arthropods Animal Fact Files

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Coconut crabs are hermit crabs, though as adults they stop using a shell. These crabs are the largest terrestrial arthropods and the biggest land-living crabs. They're also known as the robber crab! They don't spend their entire lives on land as they have an aquatic larval stage that last about a month, but after that they take to the shores and never look back. In fact, they can't look back. An adult coconut crab would drown if submerged in seawater for too long! Coconut crabs are able to climb trees and they'll even hurl coconuts from these perches which is a contributing factor to their namesake. Coconut crabs are also known as robber crabs because they'll rob places of anything they can get their claws on! We hope you learn some new animal facts with today's episode of Animal Fact Files! • Scientific Name: Birgus latro • Range: Indo-Pacific Islands • Size: nearly 3 feet (0.91m) in length - including the legs - and 8 pounds (3.6kg) in weight • Diet: fruits, carrion, the shells of other crabs, etc. • Lifespan: 40+ years • ✨ Animal Fact Files Patreon Supporters get early access to videos, get their video requests moved to the top of our request list, and more! ✨ • 👉 / animalfactfiles • You can learn more on: • Twitter - / animalfactfiles • Facebook - / animalfactfiles • --- • Image and Video Credits: • Wicked Diving - • Raja Ampat - Coconut Crabs • Brendan McDonnell - • 10 9 Christmas Is Robber Crab • isaac blair - • 애완용 코코넛크랩~!~ ; • 애완용 코코넛크랩~!~~ • The Academy of Natural Sciences - • No Ordinary Hermit Crab • Nate Burnell - • Hermit crabs eating a coconut • Drew Avery - https://flickr.com/photos/33590535@N0... • David Stanley - https://flickr.com/photos/davidstanle... • Dr Mary Gillham Archive Project - https://flickr.com/photos/marygillham... • Olivier Lejade - https://flickr.com/photos/lejade/2828... ; https://flickr.com/photos/lejade/2828... • Pinpin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co... • Magy357 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Pomarius - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Research Credits: • https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/... • http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sci... • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... • http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/201412... • https://daily.jstor.org/the-curious-c... • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... • http://www.guammarinelab.org/publicat... • https://www.britannica.com/animal/rob... • https://www.arkive.org/coconut-crab/b... • https://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives... • https://academic.oup.com/jcb/article/... • https://books.google.com/books?id=RR0... • https://history.howstuffworks.com/his... • #animalfactfiles • #coconutcrabfacts • #robbercrabfacts

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