The Hermit Crab
The life of the hermit crab.
This is a giant crab from the Indo-Pacific Islands region that can climb coconut trees, crack open and eat the coconut! These land crabs are huge; they can attain a diameter of around three feet and weight more than nine lbs when mature.
Call them mudbugs, crayfish or crawdads, these freshwater crabs are edible and considered to be delicacies in some regions where they are served. Captured in abundance, a good old fashioned ‘crayfish boil’ is good times for friends and family who love local ’seafood’ cuisine.
Living in an appropriated shell of some other species, abandoning it when they have grown too large, the hermit crab endlessly trades up a larger home, a home which they carry with them wherever they go.
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