Seabird-eating 'monster' crabs are chatty during sex

[Kyle]

Coconut crabs, Earth's biggest land crabs, are internet famous from images in which they dwarf trash bins and tear birds limb from limb.

But when these crabs aren't devouring seabirds, they're chatting to each other in vibrating clicks, and scientists recently discovered that the crabs' weird clicking calls are unexpectedly diverse.

In fact, their crabby chatter contains a range of signals that could represent complex levels of communication (for a crab, at least), according to a new study.

Seabird-eating 'monster' crabs are chatty during sex

Coconut crabs, Earth's biggest land crabs, are internet famous from images in which they dwarf trash bins and tear birds limb from limb.

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[gary_webb]

Coconut crabs, Earth's biggest land crabs, are internet famous from images in which they dwarf trash bins and tear birds limb from limb.

But when these crabs aren't devouring seabirds, they're chatting to each other in vibrating clicks, and scientists recently discovered that the crabs' weird clicking calls are unexpectedly diverse.

In fact, their crabby chatter contains a range of signals that could represent complex levels of communication (for a crab, at least), according to a new study.

Seabird-eating 'monster' crabs are chatty during sex

Coconut crabs, Earth's biggest land crabs, are internet famous from images in which they dwarf trash bins and tear birds limb from limb.

www.foxnews.com

This reminded me of an old girl friend. She told me I was too distracting because of all the clicking noises, and to call her after I had hip replacement. I told her, well your jaw doesn't click does it?

F her!