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This is an aussie coconut crab, could you imagine finding this fker in your garden! I think I'd shit myself rotflmfao

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COCONUT CRABS
The coconut crab is a large edible land crab related to the hermit crab, and are found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. They eat coconuts for a living! How would you like to be on an island and come across a crab that is more than 3 feet from head to tail and weighs up to 40 pounds, with a pair of large pincers strong enough to open coconuts! They can climb trees too, but they only eat coconuts that have already fallen to the ground. Coconut crab meat has been considered a local delicacy.

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Yeah that too, if it didn't manage to take you out first..........

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From wiki:

Birgus latro, is the largest land-living arthropod in the world, and is probably at the upper limit of how big terrestrial animals with exoskeletons can become in today's atmosphere.

Cannot swim, drowns in water.

Has lungs.

Has gills, for breathing in water. Does not use the gills, just an evolutionary throwback (In your face, creationists!)

As most crabs live in the water, they have specialized organs called aesthetascs on their antennae to determine both the concentration and the direction of a smell. However, as coconut crabs live on the land, the aesthetascs on their antennae differ significantly from those of other crabs and look more like the smelling organs of insects, called sensilia. While insects and the coconut crab originate from different evolutionary paths, the same need to detect smells in the air led to the development of remarkably similar organs, making it an example of convergent evolution.

The coconut crab climbs trees to eat coconuts or fruit.

The coconut crab, especially if it is not yet fully grown, is also sold as a pet, for example, in Tokyo.The cage must be strong enough that the animal cannot use its powerful claws to escape. Should a coconut crab pinch a person, it will not only cause pain, but is unlikely to release its grip.

While the coconut crab itself is not innately poisonous, it may become so depending on its diet, and cases of coconut crab poisoning have occurred.

"and is probably at the upper limit of how big terrestrial animals with exoskeletons can become in today's atmosphere."


What causes the constraint?

weight vs muscle ratio at a guess

Might be yer. Might be how much their joints can handle too.