Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The annual migration of red crabs is Christmas Island's biggest tourist attraction, the national park said. Original article source: Watch: Millions of crabs swarm Australia's Christmas Island ...
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!" the ...
Adult red crabs have no natural predators on Christmas Island. [12] The yellow crazy ant, an invasive species accidentally introduced to Christmas Island and Australia from Africa, is believed to have killed 10–15 million red crabs (one-quarter to one-third of the total population) in recent years. [4]
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 ...
Tuerkayana celeste, known as the Christmas Island blue crab is a species of crab in the family Gecarcinidae. The species is only found near freshwater on Christmas Island. The species was first recorded in 1900 but only in 2012 was it found to be a separate species from the Tuerkayana hirtipes. The species was used for food in the 1950s but was ...
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.