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image credit: divingchristmas.com
image credit: treehugger.comCrab with Eggs!
image credit: clubsnap.comThe Babies!
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photo: Justin GilliganHabitat: Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean
Status: Not listed
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What do these pictures remind you of? First thing I think of is the MASSIVE crowds in malls during Christmas. You can’t even walk an inch without running into a fat person. They always are fat too, do you notice that? I guess it’s a plus, since running into them is cushiony soft. Better than banging into a skinny, bony thing.Anyways, back to the creature 🙂
(looks like I’m over the Holidays, eh?)
(looks like I’m over the Holidays, eh?)
So, on Christmas Island there are over 120 million crabs running a muck. They’re famous for their annual migration where they travel to the ocean to lay their eggs. During the migration, the crabs cover highways so densely that they are even visible from the air! Volunteers help to shovel the crabs off the roads so that the poor creatures don’t get accidentally run over. Unfortunately, some of the countless millions inevitably get hurt.
Here’s an interesting little tidbit of info too: Early inhabitants of Christmas Island don’t even mention the crabs. It’s possible that the enormous population stemmed from the extinction of endemic Maclear’s Rat, in 1903, which may have controlled the crab’s population
Great video:
