Coconut Crab Conservation/YouTube After the event ... November 1 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. On Diego Garcia, for example, a 15-kilometer transect revealed 1,000 crabs and ...

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean ... and is also home to the world’s biggest terrestrial arthropod - the coconut crab. Military personnel warn of the dangers of sharks in ...

The coconut crab is the largest land-based invertebrate ... He conducted surveys on three small islands in the mouth of the Diego Garcia lagoon, and found that birds were less likely to live ...

“On March 2, 2016, in the middle of the night, I observed a coconut crab attack and kill an adult red-footed booby. The booby had been sleeping on a low-lying branch, less than a meter up the tre ...