椰子蟹

We were hoping that was just a tiny trash can but, no, it´s a coconut crab, which is the biggest arthropod that lives on land.

我们本以为这是一个小小的垃圾桶，但是不，这是只椰子蟹，该物种是陆地上最大的节肢动物。

Covered with coconut trees planted in 1881, the island has abundant coconut crabs and non-native Polynesian rats, and is surrounded by a healthy coral reef.

充满着椰子树种植于1881年，这岛有丰富的椰子蟹群和非本土的波利尼西亚的鼠群，被一个健康的珊瑚礁包围。

The same went for the basketball-size coconut crab (see picture), the world´s biggest land crab, of which Christmas Island has the world´s largest population.

篮球大小的椰子蟹（coconut crab）也是科学家们研究的对象，椰子蟹是世界上最大的陆地蟹类，圣诞岛上的椰子蟹数量是世界上最多的。

We like how they chose the innocuous name “coconut crab” to describe something that can only be killed with a flamethrower.

这种该死的动物只能用喷火器杀死，然而它却有个貌似无害的名字，“椰子蟹”，真不知道当时这名字是怎么来的。

A large crab (Birgus latro) of the islands of the South Pacific that lives in burrows and feeds mainly on coconuts .

大蟹（椰子蟹椰子蟹属），分布于南太平洋的岛屿，穴居土中，多以椰子为食。