Three-foot leg span, nine pounds, can live for 120 years.
The big version “crab eats anything it can get its claws on. It’ll go after fruit, vegetation, and carrion: dead birds and other coconut crabs and such. It has been observed hunting other crabs, and Drew has records of them ambushing young chickens as well as — don’t hate me for this — kittens, like a far less cuddly Alf of the tropics.”
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/absurd-creature-of-the-week-2/
At maggiesfarm.
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