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Video from Christmas Island National Park in Australia shows the bright red crabs along a road, dotting the landscape in red. "It's shaping up to be a bumper year for the red crab migration!"
A female red crab can produce up to 100,000 eggs, the website said. ... Millions of crabs swarm Australia's Christmas Island during migration season. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement ...
In total (including killed), the ants are believed to have displaced 15–20 million red crabs on Christmas Island. [13] During their larval stage, millions of red crab larvae are eaten by fish and large filter-feeders such as manta rays and whale sharks which visit Christmas Island during the red crab breeding season.
Christmas Island National Park is a national park occupying most of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean southwest of Indonesia. [1] The park is home to many species of animal and plant life, including the eponymous red crab, whose annual migration sees around 100 million crabs move to the sea to spawn.
A cast of blue land crab babies became lunch for a hungry red crab at Dolly Beach on Christmas Island, with footage showing the larger crab feeding on the smaller species.This video was captured ...
The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean comprising the island of the same name. It is located approximately 350 kilometres (190 nautical miles) south of Java and Sumatra and about 1,550 km (840 nmi) north-west of the closest point on the Australian mainland.
The Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura) may also be extinct, [8] and the Christmas Island pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) has not been seen since 2009. [9] The Christmas Island flying fox (Pteropus melanotus natalis), the only other endemic mammal, is declining in numbers and is considered threatened. [8] Christmas Island red crab
It’s Christmas every day on Christmas Island, the 52-square-mile jungle paradise that sits in the Indian Ocean about a 3.5-hour plane flight northwest of Perth, Australia.