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Other Video Credit: "Coconut Crab Attacks Bird" - Mark Laidre via ViralHog
KHON2 News - "Coconut crab found in Salt Lake": youtube.com/watch?v=2WveKqC0eaA
Sources:
Bracken-Grissom, H. D., Cannon, M. E., Cabezas, P., Feldmann, R. M., Schweitzer, C. E., Ahyong, S. T., ... & Crandall, K. A. (2013). A comprehensive and integrative reconstruction of evolutionary history for Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, 1-29.
Drew, M. M., Harzsch, S., Stensmyr, M., Erland, S., & Hansson, B. S. (2010). A review of the biology and ecology of the robber crab, Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1767)(Anomura: Coenobitidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 249(1), 45-67.
Laidre, Mark E. "Ruler of the atoll: the world's largest land invertebrate." Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment 15.9 (2017).
Laidre, M. E. (2018). Coconut crabs. Current Biology, 28(2), R58-R60.
Luque, J. (2017). Fossil hermit and land crabs (Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) from the Quaternary of Antigua and Bermuda. The Journal of Crustacean Biology, 37(2), 151-156.
Oka, S. I., Tomita, T., & Miyamoto, K. (2016). A mighty claw: pinching force of the coconut crab,
the largest terrestrial crustacean. PLoS One, 11(11), e0166108.
Schiller, C., Fielder, D. R., Brown, I. W., & Obed, A. (1991). Reproduction, early life-history and recruitment. The coconut crab: aspects of Birgus latro biology and ecology in Vanuatu. Canberra. Aciar Monographs, 8, 13-34.
Stensmyr, M. C., Erland, S., Hallberg, E., Wallén, R., Greenaway, P., & Hansson, B. S. (2005). Insect-like olfactory adaptations in the terrestrial giant robber crab. Current Biology, 15(2), 116-121.
Reese, E. S. (1968). Shell use: an adaptation for emigration from the sea by the coconut crab. Science, 161(3839), 385-386.
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SpongeBob French Narrator Voice by Michael Blood
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Music provided by Storyblocks
Photo Credits: docs.google.com/document/d/1K9qKYTXqoLo8TE8mNn1zcvUR5N45gFT98Tcsv04ek-k/edit
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images
Other imagery/video supplied by Storyblocks, Shutterstock, Pixabay, Pexels, and Unsplash
Other Video Credit: "Coconut Crab Attacks Bird" - Mark Laidre via ViralHog
KHON2 News - "Coconut crab found in Salt Lake": youtube.com/watch?v=2WveKqC0eaA
Sources:
Bracken-Grissom, H. D., Cannon, M. E., Cabezas, P., Feldmann, R. M., Schweitzer, C. E., Ahyong, S. T., ... & Crandall, K. A. (2013). A comprehensive and integrative reconstruction of evolutionary history for Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, 1-29.
Drew, M. M., Harzsch, S., Stensmyr, M., Erland, S., & Hansson, B. S. (2010). A review of the biology and ecology of the robber crab, Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1767)(Anomura: Coenobitidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 249(1), 45-67.
Laidre, Mark E. "Ruler of the atoll: the world's largest land invertebrate." Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment 15.9 (2017).
Laidre, M. E. (2018). Coconut crabs. Current Biology, 28(2), R58-R60.
Luque, J. (2017). Fossil hermit and land crabs (Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) from the Quaternary of Antigua and Bermuda. The Journal of Crustacean Biology, 37(2), 151-156.
Oka, S. I., Tomita, T., & Miyamoto, K. (2016). A mighty claw: pinching force of the coconut crab,
the largest terrestrial crustacean. PLoS One, 11(11), e0166108.
Schiller, C., Fielder, D. R., Brown, I. W., & Obed, A. (1991). Reproduction, early life-history and recruitment. The coconut crab: aspects of Birgus latro biology and ecology in Vanuatu. Canberra. Aciar Monographs, 8, 13-34.
Stensmyr, M. C., Erland, S., Hallberg, E., Wallén, R., Greenaway, P., & Hansson, B. S. (2005). Insect-like olfactory adaptations in the terrestrial giant robber crab. Current Biology, 15(2), 116-121.
Reese, E. S. (1968). Shell use: an adaptation for emigration from the sea by the coconut crab. Science, 161(3839), 385-386.
