Gallery: Absurd Creature of the Week: Enormous Hermit Crab Tears Through Coconuts, Eats Kittens
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You’re posturing, coconut crab. It’s blatant and we can see right through it.
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Coconut crabs are adept climbers, often scaling trees to reach fruit and coconuts.
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A female coconut crab with red eggs on her abdomen. She'll release these in the ocean, leaving the young to fend for themselves.
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A group of coconut crabs is referred to as a nightmare.
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Seriously. Coconut crabs love climbing.
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A juvenile coconut crab at left with a more developed version on the right.
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True to their name, coconut crabs are quite partial to coconuts. When finished with the flesh, they'll bang the two empty halves of the coconuts together and [have a good laugh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFXG3r_0B8).
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