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Cool Animals
October 11, 2026 at 11:23 am
The coconut crab (human for reference):
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Adult size - length 16 inches, leg span 3 feet, weight 9 pounds. Largest living terrestrial arthropod, largest living terrestrial invertebrate. Climbs trees. Claws have a gripping strength equal to the force needed to lift a ten year old child. Preferred diet is fruit, but will eat anything, including carrion (rumoured but not verified to have fed on dead humans).
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RE: Cool Animals
October 11, 2026 at 11:45 am
That's a big beastie, could feed a family of four!
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RE: Cool Animals
October 11, 2026 at 12:07 pm
(October 11, 2026 at 11:45 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: That's a big beastie, could feed a family of four!
They’re considered a risky delicacy. If you eat a crab that’s been eating sea mangoes, you’ll become serious ill.
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RE: Cool Animals
October 11, 2026 at 12:39 pm
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I like these little guys. Axolotl.
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RE: Cool Animals
October 11, 2026 at 1:19 pm
(October 11, 2026 at 11:23 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The coconut crab (human for reference):
Adult size - length 16 inches, leg span 3 feet, weight 9 pounds. Largest living terrestrial arthropod, largest living terrestrial invertebrate. Climbs trees. Claws have a gripping strength equal to the force needed to lift a ten year old child. Preferred diet is fruit, but will eat anything, including carrion (rumoured but not verified to have fed on dead humans).
Boru Lemme guess: It lives in....Australia? 
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RE: Cool Animals
October 11, 2026 at 1:26 pm
(October 11, 2026 at 1:19 pm)Deesse23 Wrote: (October 11, 2026 at 11:23 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The coconut crab (human for reference):
Adult size - length 16 inches, leg span 3 feet, weight 9 pounds. Largest living terrestrial arthropod, largest living terrestrial invertebrate. Climbs trees. Claws have a gripping strength equal to the force needed to lift a ten year old child. Preferred diet is fruit, but will eat anything, including carrion (rumoured but not verified to have fed on dead humans).
Boru Lemme guess: It lives in....Australia?
Indonesia and the South Pacific, but not a bad guess.
![[Image: 1280px-CoconutCrab_distribution_map.svg....=thumbnail]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/CoconutCrab_distribution_map.svg/1280px-CoconutCrab_distribution_map.svg.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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RE: Cool Animals
October 11, 2026 at 1:53 pm
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The kakapo.
![[Image: kakapo-dpt-cons-2.jpg]](https://www.oiseaux-birds.com/psittacides/strigops-kakapo/kakapo-dpt-cons-2.jpg)
The world’s largest, heaviest and only flightless parrot, weighing as much six pounds. Sadly, they may be gone soon - less than 350 remain.
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RE: Cool Animals
October 11, 2026 at 2:34 pm
(October 11, 2026 at 1:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The kakapo.
The world’s largest and heaviest parrot, weighing as much six pounds. Sadly, they may be gone soon - less than 350 remain.
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Is that because she is strangling it?
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October 11, 2026 at 5:50 pm
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RE: Cool Animals
October 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
(October 11, 2026 at 11:45 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: That's a big beastie, could feed a family of four!
More, if properly prepared.
Oh, you mean the crab?
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