Coconut crabs are generalist scavengers that go after fallen fruit, carrion, and (to ingest calcium) the shells of other crabs. The coconut crab is understood for its ability to use its massive pincers (chelae) to crack open coconuts. the biggest coconut crabs can exert a force of three,300 newtons (about 742 pound-force) with their pincers. Coconut crabs have also been known to open coconuts by dropping them from trees and striking them repeatedly with their pincers or using their pincers to pierce the coconut’s husk before splitting the seed open. The female releases her ripe eggs within the sea, and that they immediately hatch as microscopic swimming zoaeas. This first larval stage, which lives within the water, feeds on small organisms. After 20 to 30 days the zoaea develops into glaucophane, the intermediate stage, and leaves the water to measure in an exceedingly seashell for 3 or four weeks. It then discards the shell, buries itself in moist sand, and transforms into a little adult. Most of the daylight is passed in burrows up to about 0.6 meters (2 feet) deep, sometimes two crabs to a burrow. Did we tell you that these crabs also eat human flesh? There is a theory that coconut crabs ate Amelia Earhart's body. We have an article about that too. To read it just press this link Amelia Earhart's Body Found On Mysterious Island.
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