The coconut crab has been known to western scientists since the voyages of Francis Drake around 1580 and William Dampier around 1688. Based on an account by Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1705), who had called … 展开

Coconut crabs live in the Indian Ocean and the central Pacific Ocean, with a distribution that closely matches that of the coconut palm. … 展开

Adult coconut crabs have no known predators apart from other coconut crabs and humans. Its large size and the quality of its meat means that the … 展开

B. latro is both the largest living terrestrial arthropod and the largest living terrestrial invertebrate. Reports of its size vary, but most sources give a body length up to 40 cm (16 in), a weight up to 4.1 kg (9 lb), and a leg span more than 0.91 m (3 ft), with males generally … 展开

Coconut crabs mate frequently and quickly on dry land in the period from May to September, especially between early June and late August. Males have spermatophores and … 展开

Diet
The diet of coconut crabs consists primarily of fleshy fruits (particularly Ochrosia ackeringae, Arenga listeri, Pandanus elatus 展开

Coconut crab populations in several areas have declined or become locally extinct due to both habitat loss and human predation. In 1981, it was … 展开