To clarify/calm down my paranoid mind of a staged crab attack to a bird whose wing was broken earlier possibly by humans and so that we have full proof beyond social media cuts.
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IIRC, the full video (or a different one showing a crab killing a Booby - I can't find it at the moment) first shows the crab climbing a tree, approaching a sleeping bird, and breaking one of its wings. The bird falls out of the tree, and the crab climbs down the tree to attack the bird again on the ground.
This behavior might be seen as an extension of how they go after coconuts and other fruit.
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Has anyone seen the whole video?
To clarify/calm down my paranoid mind of a staged crab attack to a bird whose wing was broken earlier possibly by humans and so that we have full proof beyond social media cuts. ?
ps: red footed boobies don't seem to avoid those islands: https://www.livingoceansfoundation.org/seabirds-chagos-islan...
IIRC, the full video (or a different one showing a crab killing a Booby - I can't find it at the moment) first shows the crab climbing a tree, approaching a sleeping bird, and breaking one of its wings. The bird falls out of the tree, and the crab climbs down the tree to attack the bird again on the ground.
This behavior might be seen as an extension of how they go after coconuts and other fruit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab#Ecology
The crabs are nocturnal the birds are not! The footage shows it was in the night