Besides eating their own exoskeletons, the crabs have been known to feast on chickens, kittens and and fellow coconut crabs. Finding these delicacies requires a bit of sniffing around. Wired explains: ...

Eating sea mango (a coastal tree that contains extremely strong poison), for example, can cause a coconut crab to become toxic when consumed by humans. 12. They Can Be Dangerous ...

They eat coconuts for a living! ... Coconut crabs are found on tropical islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, typically achieve a body length of 16 inches with a leg span of more than 3 ...

Along with seabirds, the crabs have been known to eat kittens, and even other coconut crabs. In fact, some scientists suggest that the crabs would even be able to eat a dead or dying human if ...

Coconut crabs will eat fallen fruit, nuts and seeds. Perhaps unexpectedly for crabs, they’re also rather ruthless predators. “Most other crabs live exclusively on the water’s edge or in the ocean and ...

Coconut crabs are an anomaly compared to other crustaceans. They can weigh up to nine pounds, measure three feet across, and climb trees, hunting for coconuts to methodically husk and eat.

There have been stories that coconut crabs hunt and eat birds but scientists had not verified those rumors. Then, on a 2016 expedition to islands in the Indian Ocean, ...