got this in a email, pretty cool if real
 

How would you like to find this on the side of your trash can!!!!!!! (or anywhere!!!!) --

Our friends in Australia sent us a picture of a Coconut Crab. This is pretty interesting.....

Coconut Crab (Birgus latro) is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. It is known for its ability to crack coconuts with its strong pincers in order to eat the contents.
It is sometimes called the robber crab because some coconut crabs are rumored to steal shiny items such as pots and silverware from houses and tents
The second photo gives you a good idea of how large these crabs are - a coconut crab is seeking food from a black trashcan.





COCONUT CRABS
The coconut crab is a large edible land crab related to the hermit crab, and are found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans .. They eat coconuts for a living! How would you like to be on an island and come across a crab that is more than 3 feet from head to tail and weighs up to 40 pounds, with a pair of large pincers strong enough to open coconuts! They can climb trees too, but they only eat coconuts that have already fallen to the ground. Coconut crab meat has been considered a local delicacy.

just googled it, its real. the second pic looks photoshopped but its not.

hOly! cRAp!

I'm kinda hungry now tho

The picture with the trash can looks like something out of a movie!!!!!

Break out the crab boil and the big pot!

smoke it

I wanna fry one whole when its a soft shell.......:smokin:

hafta have a sledgehammer to crack dem claws

They are all over Guam.

Talk about make a stew with dat.

Cook dat!

"Honey, I just let the Yorkie out and I can't find him anywhere..."

First pic..............what kinda tree dropped them leaves!!??? If that crab is 3 ft long, those leaves are the size of a tarp...............

LOL!!!! I found a vid.............last few seconds cracked me up.......

That is unbelievable

I still think I could eat my weight in them things just like crawdads

I have a pot big enuff to boil that thang.
Wonder if it would make a good crab gravy?

Where can I catch one?

I wonder if it tastes like coconut?

I wonder if the eggs and grease are good like a blue crab

Caught a dozen of them in a crab cage last year in Grand Lake and had to get a derrick barge to lift the cage.