XXXXI Coconut crab
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Not far away, on a piece of dead wood, was crawling a large animal, a creature with several pairs of feet. The carapace of the body and appendages is calcified and thick, and the cephalothorax and feet are wavy wrinkles. The gillial area of the cephalothorax is particularly enlarged. The skull is triangular in shape and the eye scales are small. The left chela is larger than the right chela. The dorsal and lateral carapaces of the abdomen are calcified, partially bent below the cephalothorax. Only one side retains the vestigial abdominal limb. The chelicerae are large and small, and the rest of the body parts are symmetrical on both sides, and this crab is also a hermit crab family.
The body is yellowish-brown, a bit like the color of a loaf of bread. There are long tentacles on either side of the eyes, like whiskers like crayfish. This antennal stalk is slender and elongated, and the end of the tentacle whip is thick, slightly rod-shaped, and has a tactile effect. The coconut crab is a very peculiar species.
A pair of fat crab claws are covered in hard armor with raised dots, which are very thick and powerful, and can be used to open the hard coconut shells and feed on the coconut meat. Of the remaining four pairs of appendages, the 1st and 2nd pairs of feet are the most powerful, with claws at the ends, which can be used to climb trees. The end of the third pair of feet is chelicated, and the fourth pair of feet is small, hidden in the gill cavity below the cephalothorax.
It's like a spider spirit, but you won't find it scary.
"Holy, isn't this a coconut crab?"
"6666, Lord Ye has a good mouth, he just said earlier that he wanted to change the taste, and now he has caught such a big crab. ”
"Oh my God, I've never seen a crab this big. ”
"Ask for popular science, what is this?"
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Ye Yan slowly approached and pinched the belly of the coconut crab, which was suspended motionless in the air, looking a little bulky.
The adult coconut crab is huge, about 3-6 kilograms, so Ye Yan needs to drag it with two hands, he smiled at the camera: "Look at its crab claws, you only need to clip the solid coconut shell with a light clip, you definitely don't want to be touched by it." They climb up the coconut tree in the middle of the night, crack open the coconut shell, and eat the meat inside, so they are called coconut crabs. ”
Coconut crabs are good at climbing trees, and can climb to the top of coconut trees, palms, oak trees, etc., and can reach up to 18 meters above the ground.
Coconut crabs, on the other hand, are known for their delicious meat and grow on islands in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans. They are a type of hermit crab that also depends on their shells to survive when they are young. But what's interesting is that when they grow up, they abandon their shells, and then you see them grow into a behemoth. ”
The appearance of coconut crabs varies from region to region, and some have blue shells, which are very cool.
Ye Yan fiddled with the coconut crab with some excitement and said, "Although they are crabs, they can't swim, and they will drown if they stay in the water for a long time, which is very interesting." Over millions of years, coconut crabs have evolved to be the largest land crab in the world, as marine animals that live on land. ”
Ye Yan touched the shell of the coconut crab and tied it with a rope, these coconut crabs can have a lifespan of 60 years, and he doesn't know if Ye Yan will be able to see him again in his lifetime, he shook his head and walked towards the camp with the coconut crab in one hand and palm leaves in the other.
"City Lord Ye is such a tiger, all the food in his hands has been released. ”
"Can you have a little culture, this is coconut crab. ”
"A crab of this size must be delicious, right?"
"Ye City Lord is one of Ye City Lord Tigers. ”
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Ye Yan walked a few steps, and the water vapor around him was filled with water vapor that was difficult to disperse, and he felt like he was soaking in water, and he felt a little uncomfortable.
He glanced back at the camera and said as if he had a feeling: "Coconut crab, famous for its delicious meat, is a treasure in the eyes of biologists, and it is a delicacy on the table of the rich." It is precisely because of this that in addition to natural predators, coconut crabs have died more at the hands of humans, and have quickly become endangered animals, and were included in the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species in 1996. However, coconut crabs in many areas have gradually recovered due to conservation, and it is believed that this species will be removed from the ranks of endangered species in the near future. ”
"Coconut crabs are rare, but in the wilderness, all food is extremely precious, and if you have no way out, you can only eat it. However, I now have a lot of jerky, so this coconut crab will keep it first, and then decide whether to eat it or not when the clay pot is ready. ”
"666, it's heart-piercing, my Ye City Lord. ”
"Damn, I'm sure I'll eat it, I can't understand it, let go of the food in my hand?"
"Survival in the wilderness does it care about protecting species?
"Eat, who is the protection of people when they are dead?"
"It's not like I don't have enough to eat, so why should I kill one more?"
"Okay, watching the live broadcast will cause a world war again. ”
"Everyone, let's take a break and tell you a story. The professor asked: What is the similarity between a rotten turnip and a pregnant woman? One student replied: It's all the bugs. Only 60 points were awarded. Another student got a perfect score and answered: "It's all because of ......"
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Ye Yan didn't know the ups and downs of the barrage, he was carrying the coconut crab and the palm leaf step by step towards the way back, he was so cautious, as if he took a wrong step, he would fall into the abyss.
Back at the camp hut, Mo Qing successfully dug out a lot of soil, Ye Yan came and went for nearly an hour, Mo Qing had a shovel, and dug up almost a few hundred catties of soil, and it was estimated that he could paste two or three walls.
Ye Yan nodded and said, "Mo Qing, okay, you go and rest for a while, just leave the rest to me, well, I brought you something." ”
"What?" Mo Qing was a little curious.
Ye Yan smiled, took out the coconut crab, looked at it still alive, and said, "Oh, that's it, you can help take care of it, you know the coconut crab, right?"
Mo Qing nodded, she naturally knew what a coconut crab was, but she was really tired, and the physical work of digging the soil was indeed not something anyone could do. So he took the coconut crab back to the hut, loosened its rope, and let it climb on the ground on its own. You have to keep it carefully, roasted coconut crab is too wasteful, and steaming can maximize the flavor.
Ye Yan piled the palm leaves together, untied a bundle of palm leaves, fluffy and finely crushed the dead fibers, poured them on the soil that had been mixed with plant ash before, and continued to pour a jar of water.
Turning back and forth with a wooden shovel until the soil is completely mixed with the palm leaves, and the two become indistinguishable parts, the soil is ready, and then it is just wrapped in the soil along the bamboo pieces that have been planted earlier, and the top is piled up.
"Ye Yan, did you have a dream when you were a child? Mo Qing sat on the bamboo bed and said.
Ye Yan used a wooden shovel to pick up a shovel of soil, piled up along the bamboo pieces, both inside and outside, just like the sandwich cake, the bamboo stick is the heart, its role is similar to that of steel bars, to improve the mechanical properties of concrete, enhance the strength of concrete.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled, "That depends on what kind of dream it is." ”
"To explore that unknown land, to travel the stars. ”
Ye Yan raised and leveled the soil, shoveled some dirt over, and said, "Of course, when I was a child, I wanted to be an astronaut and explore unknown galaxies, and the result was ...... Hmph, dreams are always the opposite of reality, and now I think about how to get a girlfriend every day. ”
Mo Qing's eyes were a little confused: "Really...... Are you afraid you won't find your girlfriend?"
Ye Yan suddenly sighed, continued to work, and said, "Mo Qing, what do you think of me now?"
Mo Qing was a little unsure of the meaning of Ye Yan's words, pondered for a while, blinked his eyes and said: "You are simply both civil and military, martial arts and empty gloves white wolf, and you can ...... the sunset of the long river."
Ye Yan: "......"
"6666, the strength of the empty glove white wolf. ”
"So what's the sunset on the long river, what am I missing?"
"City Lord Ye feels like a person with a story. ”
Ye Cheng's subject: Wen can lift the pen with a wet hand, and Wu can fight the trapped beast with a knife. ”
However, with a violent shaking, it all lost its meaning. ”