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Living fossil, or convergent evolution with something VERY old? I'd like to see differences with the original terrestrial anthropods specifically crabs. The path to spider is merely more suitable terrestrial lungs, terrestrial eggs and then the loss of the then useless 9th and 10th legs..
Hey guys. Vacationing in Jamaica for my 13th birthday, I was coming back to my room from the a club one night around midnight. I was walking up a set of stairs when something large and heavy fell on my head, literally. I looked down surprised and saw the biggest "spider" I had ever seen! I immediately shrieked and stomped on it. It was destroyed rather easily and after my initial freight I was deeply saddened for killing a living creature, (even though I am deathly afraid of spiders). I didn't know what it was until recently, (some 13 years later). But I wanted to say it was brown and blackish, with out claws/pinchers. I remember the next day a little drama unfolded when the workers were asking around to see who had killed the creature and if they had been attacked. I figured it was an endangered species or something so I kept my mouth shut. But this was a terribly tragic experience for me, and I just wanted to share it. Wikilich ( talk) 02:35, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I think that references to Coconut Crabs (Birgus latro), commonly called Robber Crabs on Christmas Island, being a metre or so in size are highly exagerated. I was the Government Conservator with Parks Australia North on Christmas Island during 1997/98 and can state that they do not reach this size. Dr Holger Rumpff is spelt with 2 'f's. He is a sadly missed friend and colleague who was an expert on the ecology of Christmas Island. In addition, he was a superb wildlife photographer. David Murray
The error is still on the front page. You might to fix the steal part. -- Cyberman 00:15, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC) Ok it's fixed now. ^_^ -- Cyberman 00:21, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Only the other day someone at wikipedia:reference desk was mentioning that we don't have an article about the coconut crab. Amazing that this article came up in just 2 hours. Good work Chris! Jay 18:40, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Added the statement about Christmas Island having the largest population based on this link: http://www.wilderness.org.au/campaigns/marine/christmas_island/save_ci/. Though this is not an authoratitive scientific source, I considered it reputable enough to use. Disclaimer: I grew up on Christmas Island and am fond of the place (and it's crabs). Congrats on the great work you've done on this article Chris -- Oska 06:09, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
Nice article. Just a couple of comments:
I'm not a bio so don't want to myself :-) ( William M. Connolley 16:30, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC))
He's called Rumpf (one 'f') in 2 german press articles, here http://www.diepresse.at/Artikel.aspx?channel=r&ressort=ra&id=457876 and here http://www.mdr.de/windrose/archiv/471738.html Worth looking into perhaps? Prater 22:04, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The Cultural paragraph on children playing with coconut crabs sounds like encouragement to engage in animal cruelty. Surely this is not the intent. If this is an actual common practice, can we at least say something factual like "children sometimes play" or even "children often play", rather than a permissive "children may play", so as not to condone the practice? (I'm no animal rights activist, but I see no point in appearing to recommend amusement by getting other creatures to harm themselves.) — Jeff Q 03:32, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Did you guys read the recent article over at BBC? I think it's worth including the new information on the creature's sense of smell, if you feel like it.
And by the way, good article! -- Polyparadigm 04:52, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
These creatures are big, but how big? I did a little checking around, and found sizes ranging from 40 cm to over a meter, and weights from 3 kg to 17 kg. This is also a long-lived species, apparently, achieving maximum size after 40-60 years. If someone can confirm this info it would be good to include with the article. -- Mmm 16:08, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
Why is "Coconut Crab" consistently capitalized, even in the title? Compare for example hermit crab. — Ливай | ☺ 21:20, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
There is no good reason for capitalising species names, and absolutely no reason to capitalise hermit crab, since that refers to a group of animals, not to a single species. As far as I can see from the discussions, only ornithologists routinely use capital letters for species names (which they consider to be somehow official, i.e. tied to a particular scientific name); everyone else should be using lower case, except where appropriate for other reasons (e.g. Norway lobster). There is certainly no fixed list tying common names for crustaceans to scientific names, so the names cannot be considered in any way official. Since they are not proper nouns, therefore, they should not be capitalised in English. I suggest this article be re-named (or un-renamed) "Coconut crab". Stemonitis 15:24, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
WHY was this changed back from Coconut Crab to Coconut crab? The case has been stated exactly WHY this article should be Coconut Crab. Please explain the change to Coconut crab. Kingturtle 18:19, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
For the reasons stated above, and others too, not least consistency within the Crustacea; all crustacean articles are uncapitalised, as are many (most?) other arthropods. A while ago I looked at the crustacean articles and saw a huge mixture of capitalised and uncapitalised forms, perhaps with a majority uncapitalised (I can't honestly remember). I looked up the relevant style guides and discussions and discovered that outside of bird species names, there is no real consensus. I therefore picked what made sense to me, and made them consistent. If you want it to be "Coconut Crab" again, then you would have to capitalise all the other crustacean species as well (note that since hermit crab is a group, not a species, that rule needn't apply to it - that would need to be included in the discussion). I recently requested a couple of moves to lower case, for consistency's sake (e.g. American lobster), and they were approved by the community. I took that, and the silence following the change here as evidence of acceptance of my choice. Of course, if you know of any reason for the coconut crab to be treated specially, please say so. -- Stemonitis 14:52, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The Coconut Crab is also known as "Bubble Crab".
In Portuguese it is named "Caranguejo-de-Bôlha"(i.e Bubble's Crab) perhaps in another related languages is also.
In the Northern Part of the Philippines they are called Tatos and they are a delicacy 19:30, 3 December 2007 (UTC)berwynson
"It is sometimes called the robber crab or palm thief (in German, Palmendieb), because some coconut crabs steal shiny items such as pots and silverware from houses and tents."
I would like to see proof of such behaviour, else it should be described as rumored. Most Coconut crabs are in fact not theives at all.
This article is considered to fall outside the scope of the Version 0.5 test release, which is of limited size. It is now being held ready for a later version. Jaranda wat's sup 05:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
I think Jan Vermeer's excellent entry [1] [2] [3] in this year's Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition would make an great addition to the article, but i'm not sure whether it would qualify as fair use. Anyone have an idea? -- Piet Delport 02:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey everyone, great article here. I just wanted to mention that it would be really helpful if the citations in the "References" section could be merged into the footnotes using the instructions from WP:FOOT. That way readers could follow citations straight from the fact in question to its source. You seem to have a lot of good references, and they would be much more useful if they could be incorporated as in-text citations.-- Margareta 02:10, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
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Was/is the coconut crab eaten as a food by humans? Badagnani ( talk) 04:20, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Yes, according to the article. Badagnani ( talk) 04:31, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
In Physical Description: "The body of the coconut crab is a mixture of orange and playful seven"
What the heck does that mean? Is this a typo/vandalism? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.8.48.157 ( talk) 20:55, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
apomorphic is poor use in an encyclopedia article. I realize a blu link helps define the term and that it is a good specialist term. Still bad usage in wiki. I think I will write an essay on this growing practice. 72.82.52.106 ( talk) 16:24, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Map does not match distribution. Map shows Taiwan, etc. having crabs, but this is not mentioned in the text. Also, the map does not call out the features described in the text, for instance Christmas Island. Let's push ourselves more to make a quality product. Give people what they would get in a pay encyclopedia. Then we can talk about wiki being better than Britanica. 72.82.52.106 ( talk) 12:40, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
The article states that the eastern limit of distribution is the Gambier Islands. This is not correct, as the Pitcairn Islands are further east than the Gambier Islands, and theh coconut crab is well known there. There was even a Pitciarn Islands stamp issue featuring it in 2008. Arkive ( http://www.arkive.org/coconut-crab/birgus-latro/#text=Range) states that there are reports of it from Pitcairn Islands, and even as far east as Easter Island, though I cannot otherwise confirm that the latter. But my wife grew up in Pitcairn, and confirms their presence there. Ptilinopus ( talk) 06:56, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Just in case anyone's watching, I should warn ye that I plan to restore this article to its former FA glory, so don't be alarmed by the changes. Wish me luck! Sasata ( talk) 05:17, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
It would be nice to have an image of the crab with either a human person or else some object of well-known size in it (match box, box of cigarettes, dollar bill etc.), so that the size of the animal can be made visually obvious. Thanks! -- 92.229.105.68 ( talk) 15:39, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Was it really necessary to say the crab is "sympatric" with man merely to say their territory overlaps?? Except for the bottom of the sea and wild reserves, are there any species anywhere on Earth that are not "sympatric" with man? I am not a biology or evolutionary expert but it seems to me this word was not meant to be used in this context. 24.214.155.48 ( talk) 18:49, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Apparently her remains were eaten by these things. 76.219.110.140 ( talk) 19:52, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
I've identified these journal articles from a Web of Science search as possibly relevant, and not currently used in the article. In preparation for FAC, I'd like to try to find & read these, to see if we're missing anything, and to get better acquainted with the literature. To keep it (relatively) simple, I stopped at 1999. Sasata ( talk) 23:01, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Do you know how many of these topics are covered by recent reviews? Where possible, we should be trying to use the secondary literature. I would hope that Drew et al. (2010) would discuss most important aspects of the species' biology, for instance. I see no problem with going back to the primary literature to fill in some details, but I don't think we should expect to include the results of every research paper. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 07:00, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Mike Searson ( talk · contribs) 18:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC) Very good so far! I moved one picture as it was disrupting the flow of text and creating a huge whitespace and changed a few words to allow for better flow. The pictures are all good and appropriate, the only thing I can see right now...and it may not be an issue at all... is aren't they protected from export? I remember these crabs as being popular in the exotic animal trade until the early 1990s. I've been told over the past 15 years that they were protected from importation and have not seen a live one since 1993. A lesser point, but it may be worth mentioning if a source can be found. The only other issue I see (which will not keep it from GA, but may cause problems at FAC), is large page ranges are given on certain references. As a writer, I see no problems with this, as information in one sentence in a wiki article can easily range over as many as 20 pages in a published reliable source, but certain critics will start the arm-waving at FAC if page cites are not kept to a 2 page maximum.-- Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:53, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
The Coconut crab is a protected species on Diego Garcia. The crab in the photo is one on Diego Garcia. The photo is germain to the section and to the article. -- Revmqo ( talk) 14:15, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
The article states more than once that adult coconut crabs will drown in the ocean, but also says that reproduction happens in the water, with adult crabs having been found as far as 6km offshore. Can someone reconcile these pieces of information? -- 170.145.0.100 ( talk) 17:29, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
This article also says that the crab will die if left in salt water for an hour, and in another section, says that it will die if in water "less than a day". Reference 11 vice reference 18. Unclesmrgol ( talk) 06:49, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
It's a Drupe according to the following Wikipedia articles:
Can someone knowledgeable about this subject edit the article to reflect that please? 50.170.31.164 ( talk) 20:16, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
fixed ~dom Kaos~ ( talk) 13:32, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
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I've removed the claim that coconut crabs may have consumed Earhart's remains, as per the discussion on her talk page. This species faces enough threats to its population, without tabloidy scaremongering ~dom Kaos~ ( talk) 14:47, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Someone reversed my edit and said that it didn't belong in the introduction. I selected that placement because that is where the article was talking about what the crabs eat. Where should I put that there is some evidence they hunt birds? Most Humble and Obedient Servant ( talk) 23:08, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
This critter has been entered into Category:Apex predators. Can anyone explain why it might get that designation? What animals does it prey upon?-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 00:50, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
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Living fossil, or convergent evolution with something VERY old? I'd like to see differences with the original terrestrial anthropods specifically crabs. The path to spider is merely more suitable terrestrial lungs, terrestrial eggs and then the loss of the then useless 9th and 10th legs..
Hey guys. Vacationing in Jamaica for my 13th birthday, I was coming back to my room from the a club one night around midnight. I was walking up a set of stairs when something large and heavy fell on my head, literally. I looked down surprised and saw the biggest "spider" I had ever seen! I immediately shrieked and stomped on it. It was destroyed rather easily and after my initial freight I was deeply saddened for killing a living creature, (even though I am deathly afraid of spiders). I didn't know what it was until recently, (some 13 years later). But I wanted to say it was brown and blackish, with out claws/pinchers. I remember the next day a little drama unfolded when the workers were asking around to see who had killed the creature and if they had been attacked. I figured it was an endangered species or something so I kept my mouth shut. But this was a terribly tragic experience for me, and I just wanted to share it. Wikilich ( talk) 02:35, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I think that references to Coconut Crabs (Birgus latro), commonly called Robber Crabs on Christmas Island, being a metre or so in size are highly exagerated. I was the Government Conservator with Parks Australia North on Christmas Island during 1997/98 and can state that they do not reach this size. Dr Holger Rumpff is spelt with 2 'f's. He is a sadly missed friend and colleague who was an expert on the ecology of Christmas Island. In addition, he was a superb wildlife photographer. David Murray
The error is still on the front page. You might to fix the steal part. -- Cyberman 00:15, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC) Ok it's fixed now. ^_^ -- Cyberman 00:21, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Only the other day someone at wikipedia:reference desk was mentioning that we don't have an article about the coconut crab. Amazing that this article came up in just 2 hours. Good work Chris! Jay 18:40, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Added the statement about Christmas Island having the largest population based on this link: http://www.wilderness.org.au/campaigns/marine/christmas_island/save_ci/. Though this is not an authoratitive scientific source, I considered it reputable enough to use. Disclaimer: I grew up on Christmas Island and am fond of the place (and it's crabs). Congrats on the great work you've done on this article Chris -- Oska 06:09, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
Nice article. Just a couple of comments:
I'm not a bio so don't want to myself :-) ( William M. Connolley 16:30, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC))
He's called Rumpf (one 'f') in 2 german press articles, here http://www.diepresse.at/Artikel.aspx?channel=r&ressort=ra&id=457876 and here http://www.mdr.de/windrose/archiv/471738.html Worth looking into perhaps? Prater 22:04, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The Cultural paragraph on children playing with coconut crabs sounds like encouragement to engage in animal cruelty. Surely this is not the intent. If this is an actual common practice, can we at least say something factual like "children sometimes play" or even "children often play", rather than a permissive "children may play", so as not to condone the practice? (I'm no animal rights activist, but I see no point in appearing to recommend amusement by getting other creatures to harm themselves.) — Jeff Q 03:32, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Did you guys read the recent article over at BBC? I think it's worth including the new information on the creature's sense of smell, if you feel like it.
And by the way, good article! -- Polyparadigm 04:52, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
These creatures are big, but how big? I did a little checking around, and found sizes ranging from 40 cm to over a meter, and weights from 3 kg to 17 kg. This is also a long-lived species, apparently, achieving maximum size after 40-60 years. If someone can confirm this info it would be good to include with the article. -- Mmm 16:08, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
Why is "Coconut Crab" consistently capitalized, even in the title? Compare for example hermit crab. — Ливай | ☺ 21:20, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
There is no good reason for capitalising species names, and absolutely no reason to capitalise hermit crab, since that refers to a group of animals, not to a single species. As far as I can see from the discussions, only ornithologists routinely use capital letters for species names (which they consider to be somehow official, i.e. tied to a particular scientific name); everyone else should be using lower case, except where appropriate for other reasons (e.g. Norway lobster). There is certainly no fixed list tying common names for crustaceans to scientific names, so the names cannot be considered in any way official. Since they are not proper nouns, therefore, they should not be capitalised in English. I suggest this article be re-named (or un-renamed) "Coconut crab". Stemonitis 15:24, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
WHY was this changed back from Coconut Crab to Coconut crab? The case has been stated exactly WHY this article should be Coconut Crab. Please explain the change to Coconut crab. Kingturtle 18:19, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
For the reasons stated above, and others too, not least consistency within the Crustacea; all crustacean articles are uncapitalised, as are many (most?) other arthropods. A while ago I looked at the crustacean articles and saw a huge mixture of capitalised and uncapitalised forms, perhaps with a majority uncapitalised (I can't honestly remember). I looked up the relevant style guides and discussions and discovered that outside of bird species names, there is no real consensus. I therefore picked what made sense to me, and made them consistent. If you want it to be "Coconut Crab" again, then you would have to capitalise all the other crustacean species as well (note that since hermit crab is a group, not a species, that rule needn't apply to it - that would need to be included in the discussion). I recently requested a couple of moves to lower case, for consistency's sake (e.g. American lobster), and they were approved by the community. I took that, and the silence following the change here as evidence of acceptance of my choice. Of course, if you know of any reason for the coconut crab to be treated specially, please say so. -- Stemonitis 14:52, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The Coconut Crab is also known as "Bubble Crab".
In Portuguese it is named "Caranguejo-de-Bôlha"(i.e Bubble's Crab) perhaps in another related languages is also.
In the Northern Part of the Philippines they are called Tatos and they are a delicacy 19:30, 3 December 2007 (UTC)berwynson
"It is sometimes called the robber crab or palm thief (in German, Palmendieb), because some coconut crabs steal shiny items such as pots and silverware from houses and tents."
I would like to see proof of such behaviour, else it should be described as rumored. Most Coconut crabs are in fact not theives at all.
This article is considered to fall outside the scope of the Version 0.5 test release, which is of limited size. It is now being held ready for a later version. Jaranda wat's sup 05:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
I think Jan Vermeer's excellent entry [1] [2] [3] in this year's Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition would make an great addition to the article, but i'm not sure whether it would qualify as fair use. Anyone have an idea? -- Piet Delport 02:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey everyone, great article here. I just wanted to mention that it would be really helpful if the citations in the "References" section could be merged into the footnotes using the instructions from WP:FOOT. That way readers could follow citations straight from the fact in question to its source. You seem to have a lot of good references, and they would be much more useful if they could be incorporated as in-text citations.-- Margareta 02:10, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
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Was/is the coconut crab eaten as a food by humans? Badagnani ( talk) 04:20, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Yes, according to the article. Badagnani ( talk) 04:31, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
In Physical Description: "The body of the coconut crab is a mixture of orange and playful seven"
What the heck does that mean? Is this a typo/vandalism? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.8.48.157 ( talk) 20:55, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
apomorphic is poor use in an encyclopedia article. I realize a blu link helps define the term and that it is a good specialist term. Still bad usage in wiki. I think I will write an essay on this growing practice. 72.82.52.106 ( talk) 16:24, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Map does not match distribution. Map shows Taiwan, etc. having crabs, but this is not mentioned in the text. Also, the map does not call out the features described in the text, for instance Christmas Island. Let's push ourselves more to make a quality product. Give people what they would get in a pay encyclopedia. Then we can talk about wiki being better than Britanica. 72.82.52.106 ( talk) 12:40, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
The article states that the eastern limit of distribution is the Gambier Islands. This is not correct, as the Pitcairn Islands are further east than the Gambier Islands, and theh coconut crab is well known there. There was even a Pitciarn Islands stamp issue featuring it in 2008. Arkive ( http://www.arkive.org/coconut-crab/birgus-latro/#text=Range) states that there are reports of it from Pitcairn Islands, and even as far east as Easter Island, though I cannot otherwise confirm that the latter. But my wife grew up in Pitcairn, and confirms their presence there. Ptilinopus ( talk) 06:56, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Just in case anyone's watching, I should warn ye that I plan to restore this article to its former FA glory, so don't be alarmed by the changes. Wish me luck! Sasata ( talk) 05:17, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
It would be nice to have an image of the crab with either a human person or else some object of well-known size in it (match box, box of cigarettes, dollar bill etc.), so that the size of the animal can be made visually obvious. Thanks! -- 92.229.105.68 ( talk) 15:39, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Was it really necessary to say the crab is "sympatric" with man merely to say their territory overlaps?? Except for the bottom of the sea and wild reserves, are there any species anywhere on Earth that are not "sympatric" with man? I am not a biology or evolutionary expert but it seems to me this word was not meant to be used in this context. 24.214.155.48 ( talk) 18:49, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Apparently her remains were eaten by these things. 76.219.110.140 ( talk) 19:52, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
I've identified these journal articles from a Web of Science search as possibly relevant, and not currently used in the article. In preparation for FAC, I'd like to try to find & read these, to see if we're missing anything, and to get better acquainted with the literature. To keep it (relatively) simple, I stopped at 1999. Sasata ( talk) 23:01, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Do you know how many of these topics are covered by recent reviews? Where possible, we should be trying to use the secondary literature. I would hope that Drew et al. (2010) would discuss most important aspects of the species' biology, for instance. I see no problem with going back to the primary literature to fill in some details, but I don't think we should expect to include the results of every research paper. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 07:00, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Mike Searson ( talk · contribs) 18:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC) Very good so far! I moved one picture as it was disrupting the flow of text and creating a huge whitespace and changed a few words to allow for better flow. The pictures are all good and appropriate, the only thing I can see right now...and it may not be an issue at all... is aren't they protected from export? I remember these crabs as being popular in the exotic animal trade until the early 1990s. I've been told over the past 15 years that they were protected from importation and have not seen a live one since 1993. A lesser point, but it may be worth mentioning if a source can be found. The only other issue I see (which will not keep it from GA, but may cause problems at FAC), is large page ranges are given on certain references. As a writer, I see no problems with this, as information in one sentence in a wiki article can easily range over as many as 20 pages in a published reliable source, but certain critics will start the arm-waving at FAC if page cites are not kept to a 2 page maximum.-- Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:53, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
The Coconut crab is a protected species on Diego Garcia. The crab in the photo is one on Diego Garcia. The photo is germain to the section and to the article. -- Revmqo ( talk) 14:15, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
The article states more than once that adult coconut crabs will drown in the ocean, but also says that reproduction happens in the water, with adult crabs having been found as far as 6km offshore. Can someone reconcile these pieces of information? -- 170.145.0.100 ( talk) 17:29, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
This article also says that the crab will die if left in salt water for an hour, and in another section, says that it will die if in water "less than a day". Reference 11 vice reference 18. Unclesmrgol ( talk) 06:49, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
It's a Drupe according to the following Wikipedia articles:
Can someone knowledgeable about this subject edit the article to reflect that please? 50.170.31.164 ( talk) 20:16, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
fixed ~dom Kaos~ ( talk) 13:32, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
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I've removed the claim that coconut crabs may have consumed Earhart's remains, as per the discussion on her talk page. This species faces enough threats to its population, without tabloidy scaremongering ~dom Kaos~ ( talk) 14:47, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Someone reversed my edit and said that it didn't belong in the introduction. I selected that placement because that is where the article was talking about what the crabs eat. Where should I put that there is some evidence they hunt birds? Most Humble and Obedient Servant ( talk) 23:08, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
This critter has been entered into Category:Apex predators. Can anyone explain why it might get that designation? What animals does it prey upon?-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 00:50, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
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