How do coconut crabs get their food?
How do coconut crabs get their food? Coconut crabs come forth irregularly at night to feed, loot, raid and plunder. The crab is known for its ability to crack or pound open coconuts with the strong pincers or two large chelae it possesses in order to eat the contents. The soft white meat of the coconut forms the main part of the crab's diet. Do coconut crabs eat themselves? A coconut crab's diet may include other tropical fruits, fallen plant material, dead and decaying animals, rats, and other crab species. They'll even eat members of their own kind. They also...