Look, everyone, there seems to be a big crab resting there, purple and brown, hiding in the trunk of a tree, thinking that I didn't find it, so I'll talk about how to make a trap first.

Generally speaking, making a coconut trap is super simple, you just need to take out the half-eaten pulp and put it in a place that is relatively difficult to walk and can be seen at a glance with your eyes. ”

As Chen Fan spoke, he threw the coconut meat on the beach, distributed in a straight line.

"Well, that's fine, then, all you need to do is come and go every hour or two, coconut crabs are usually big and don't run too far.

They are diurnal animals, but yesterday evening's heavy rain caused a lot of coconuts to appear on the ground, these coconut crabs should have entered the early stage of the breeding period, and after a while, they will return to the ocean to breed, so this is also the time for them to replenish their energy. ”

"Ah, there's another one over there, it seems to be bigger, you see, it must be at least about a meter, it's estimated to be more than ten catties. ”

The coconut crab, in fact, is a hermit crab, which is not only the largest terrestrial crab, but also the largest terrestrial arthropod. Huge in size, weighing up to more than 7 kilograms, they have a hard shell with two strong and powerful claws, and are master tree climbers, especially good at climbing straight coconut trees, because they can peel the hard coconut shells with their strong double chela, so named after the coconut pulp in them.

Generally speaking, they only live on the shores of all the oceans of the Indian Ocean, wherever there are coconut trees, there are their footprints, of course, we belong to the Western Pacific, which is next to the Indian Ocean, located in the low latitudes of the continent island, which is also suitable for the growth of coconut crabs.

They spend most of their lives in tropical woods near the seashore, returning to the sea during the breeding season, where their larvae grow up in the seawater.

Mature adult crabs are pale purple to brown or dark purple, and when they are ripe, they are brown and have black stripes.

Female crabs spawn in the sea, immediately hatch into flea-like larvae, feed on small creatures, generally about January, juvenile coconut crabs return to the shore, enter the shell to live for three or four weeks, and then out of the shell, burrow into the wet sand, become a small adult crab.

Although it can climb trees and is a master in this field, most coconut crabs only eat coconuts on the ground, which ensures that the coconut trees continue to grow and will not be extinct.

Well, speaking of which, the point is that there are generally coconut crabs in the sea, which are all excellent delicacies, and a rare delicacy for entertaining VIPs. ”

"However, this seemingly clumsy, very easy to catch crab, you must pay attention, its bite force is too great, don't encounter it head-on, when catching it, be sure to stay away from its pair of pincers, hehe, I'll show you now." ”

After Chen Fan finished speaking, he took out the outdoor dagger, bent his body slightly, and rushed out with a coconut crab four or five meters away......

For a while, sand bounced on the beach, and Chen Fan sprinted at a speed of 100 meters to go directly down with a dagger to the coconut crab lying under the trunk...... Then I saw the coconut crab struggling, falling from the trunk, and then being carried by Chen Fan in his hand.

"Well, it's so heavy, sure enough, this coconut crab is about ten pounds, and it is already an adult crab, I was lucky to kill it with one blow, and it was killed by me before it could react. ”

Chen Fan was proud, he didn't expect that he was really too simple this time.

He also didn't know that it was not surprising that a coconut crab that an ordinary person could catch.

"Well, there's still some time, just to see some traces, so I'll tell you about it! Look closely, here are the marks left by the local residents when they came to replenish them!"

"See, this is scraped by hand with an axe or file to make it easier to get on the coconut tree. ”

The drone camera closes the distance and captures the grooves in the coconut trees. Chen Fan continued:

"Fishermen who live near the island province come out to this fishery every year to live on the island for a period of time to replenish food and fresh water.

As a result, these coconut palms are the best source of natural protein, because coconut palms are relatively tall, and traditional climbing methods are too time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Fishermen are the smartest, especially the Tan family, who have lived in this area for thousands of years.

Resourceful, they will use a knife to cut a groove about four or five centimeters thick in the trunk of the coconut tree, which can be used to put their feet, so that it is easy to climb and pick coconut trees.

In fact, I have seen similar traces before, but the gap between the grooves of those large coconut trees is too large, which is due to the fact that the coconut trees continue to grow, and the distance from nature is also shortened, which is not suitable for us humans to climb.

Now, I'm going to show you how to climb a coconut tree and pick a coconut, because it's safe because there's no wind right now. ”

Chen Fan threw the dead coconut crab farther away, then began to take off his shoes, barefoot, and spit on his hands twice, and then climbed up along the smaller coconut tree.

"Well, this tree is about ten meters old, and I am more than thirty years old, please remember, if you have people who are on a desert island like me, when climbing a tree, you must take off your shoes first, just like me, a breath of anger, okay, I'm going to climb a tree, I can't talk halfway, because I will lose my strength!"

After Chen Fan finished speaking, he no longer spoke, but took a deep breath, then hugged the tree trunk with both hands, stepped on the groove cut out with both feet, and pushed forward step by step.

Well, like a walking caterpillar, slowly climbing upwards.

A few minutes later, Chen Fan had already reached the top of the tree, because the coconut tree was dense enough and very tenacious, Chen Fan tightened the trunk with his legs, and beckoned to the camera with both hands easily:

"You see, picking a coconut is very simple, but there is actually a little trick, which is to grasp the leaves, and then rotate along the roots, you don't have to spend a lot of effort, slowly, see if it is already falling off. ”

With a bang, a cyan coconut had fallen to the ground.

"That's right, this coconut is ripe, only the coconut that is ripe will fall off easily, if it is not ripe, the roots are very hard, and it can't be twisted at all. ”

Chen Fan found a large one again, which was a little brown in color, grabbed the coconut and turned it hard, and it fell to the ground with a click......

"Hehe, enough is enough, there are actually quite a few on the ground, I'm just showing you how to pick coconuts!"

Chen Fan then stepped back and slowly slid towards the ground.