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Christmas Island: Red Crab
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Christmas Island is truly the kingdom of the crabs. They occupy every niche on the island from the shoreline to the top plateau. The most famous of them all is the Red Crab, of which around 120 million live on the forest floor all over the island. |more|
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Whale Sharks & Mantas From November through to April the world's biggest fish, the whale shark visits the island often in large numbers. Underwater their massive bulk is a breathtaking sight. If you remain stationary these gentle giants of the deep often circle several times and can get so close you may need to move aside as they pass by. Being plankton feeders their arrival coincides with the spawning of the red crab population.
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Crazy ant supercolonies are wreaking havoc on the natural environment across the island. At supercolony densities crazy ants have the ability to overwhelm and kill the red land crabs, robber crabs, endemic reptiles, and a host of native invertebrates. There is ... grave concern for the island's native birds - crazy ants forage mostly in the canopies of large forest trees, so nesting land and sea-birds are at risk.
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