The Christmas island crab had 2 predators that kept they're numbers in check. The Predators were the Bulldog Rat And Maclear's Rat. Both of which were endemic only to Christmas island and existed nowhere else on the earth. In 1887 a ship landed on the island to check on the possibility of starting a business by extracting rubber from the trees on the island, but the ship contained Black Rats which carried diseases that the 2 island rat species weren't prepared for and had zero immunity to. By 1902, Both the Bulldog Rat & Maclear's Rat were extinct. With them out of the ecosystem, the crab population exploded and never stopped growing. That's why there's so many crabs there on the island. - The Teacher
No literally you can make a good fighting forces of crabs. they have natural characteristics like-: Normal crabs-: Infantry Coconut crabs-: Armored division Mantis crabs-: armored reconnaissance and intelligence. (They can make good spies because of there shell) Spider crabs -; mechanised infantry ( only if we trained them to carry other small crabs!) Lobsters-: Artillery
@@austinmajor3288 Coconut crabs, as their name implies, are strong enough to puncture coconuts with their claws. A crab's carapace would be of no defence against them.
I am fascinated by the red crabs marching across Christmas Island near Australia. Also, it is surprising how many species of crabs I have seen from watching nature documentaries.
Added in. Pretty sure their cameras pick up almost no usable sound and a lot of the audio is careful foley work and sound design, minus specific animal calls and things like that.
I had the honour of meeting an entire parade of red crabs on the long stretch of sand at the edge of Chilika Lake. The narrow stretch of land that divided the lake and the ocean, was infested with red-crab population. I was walking on the shore sipping coconut water, as a red crab walked passed me. I found it hell'a cute, so I followed it. It went inside a burrow almost immideately. A minute later it came out to peep, whether I was still there or gone. I looked ahead, and holy moly, there were God knows how many (but I am guessing a close to million) crabs looking at me, in perfect lines of three, like the ones in a marching parade, staring back at me. They were looking at me curiously, peeking out of their tiny holes. It was up till the horizon, as far as my eyes could see. I throttled one step on the ground, with force, likely to scare them off. It worked. They went back in- all together. A minute later, they slowly come out again. I walk towards them and they quickly hide in their hidey holes within a blink of an eye. It was a wierd game that I was enjoying all by myself. Best summer ever. I was barely 15 at that time!
Agreed. I stopped eating crab meat because I find them too fascinating and endearing, and I always feel horrible for them when I see them and lobsters in live tanks at grocery stores.
3:30 it's like they are playing music chair 🎶 😁😁😁 Yeeeh that's the power of red😍 👍😆how beautiful they are... I totally forgot that one day i was bitten by them😁😁😁
When I see the small one my brain said : " no it's have no meat inside" And then giant comes and I think " oh my gosh, that would be so tasty" I'm sorry but when I see this kind videos I can't take the knowledge, I can't help think about food 🤣🤣
That looks like a crab buffet! If i were on this island all I'll ever need would be a fork, spoon, cooking pot and stove. And probably salt and butter.
3:34 One actually waves at the camera as he passes by.
AuomAk ,yeah
Hey mum, I’m on TV!
Wow
Great spot🔥💥👍
Like a football worldcup fan came to see final.....
They're heading to the annual crab rave.
Xd
indeed
@@jackknight5692 a song
;-;
Crabchella is always lite.
1:38 "excuse me! Excuse me ! Excuseme!"
we always have one like this in cinema hall
Red crabs literally embody 'They can't kill all of us!'
Just like cicadas
3:34
crab be like: "mom, look, i'm on tv!"
Lol nice!
Hahaha came here to comment the same
Cuteeee😍🤣
fudge you beat me to it
😅😅😅😅😅😅
3:34 cutest crab greet you'll ever see
3:34 "Oh! Hai"
Lol
TheSilentCosmonaut I came down to comments to point this out! lol
TheSilentCosmonaut EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING?
TheSilentCosmonaut lol
I was thinking the same.
The Christmas island crab had 2 predators that kept they're numbers in check.
The Predators were the Bulldog Rat
And Maclear's Rat.
Both of which were endemic only to Christmas island and existed nowhere else on the earth.
In 1887 a ship landed on the island to check on the possibility of starting a business by extracting rubber from the trees on the island, but the ship contained Black Rats which carried diseases that the 2 island rat species weren't prepared for and had zero immunity to.
By 1902, Both the Bulldog Rat & Maclear's Rat were extinct.
With them out of the ecosystem, the crab population exploded and never stopped growing.
That's why there's so many crabs there on the island.
- The Teacher
What about the yellow crazy ants?
@@TuriGamer
Like it was nothing.
- The Teacher
Wow. Thank you 👍
yeah I heard the opposite in areas with yellow crazy ants.
What happened of those black, foreign rats?
lol to the one that came to the camera and said hi. haha
I'm about to comment that hahah
He said bye have a good time!😂
Xxx
Lol
Which one?? Time stamp?
Everyone say hi to Mr. Krabs at 3:34!
Lol why
ADORABLE 😍🥰
Look at all those chickens.
@maksim lukjan r/whooosh
duh. Dis was only a joke dumb
Chickens? I thought they're snakes
maksim lukjan it’s a joke
Eric Fontanilla Wtf those are lobsters
Me needs to do schoolwork
RUclips: wanna see some crabs?
3:34 “Mom! Look! I’m on tv!!”
No literally you can make a good fighting forces of crabs. they have natural characteristics like-:
Normal crabs-: Infantry
Coconut crabs-: Armored division
Mantis crabs-: armored
reconnaissance and intelligence.
(They can make good spies because of there shell)
Spider crabs -; mechanised infantry ( only if we trained them to carry other small crabs!)
Lobsters-: Artillery
Mantis crab isnt crab, its shrimp.
Its name is mantis shrimp, so you could change their name.
Hermit crab: surprise attacker (won’t do much but can distract)
An army that can be defeated by being eaten or chunked into the ocean.
Just crustacean fighting gaem where you can pick what crustacean you wanna be there is even bosses like octopus
first time I saw coconut crabs hunting. Much faster strike than expected.
Yeah and not to mention a bit hard core when it crushed that little crab. I mean, yikes!
@@austinmajor3288 Coconut crabs, as their name implies, are strong enough to puncture coconuts with their claws. A crab's carapace would be of no defence against them.
I never thought the crab in that video would get so liked
Yea they are more aggressive than they look like that one time one crushed a birds wing and a swarm of them…well you can imagine the rest.
1:10 That face of the Bird HAHAHAHAHA
3:35 Hi Mr. Krabbs😍
Such a beautiful shade of red they are.
1:13 That crab was like: don,t touch me bish
I am fascinated by the red crabs marching across Christmas Island near Australia. Also, it is surprising how many species of crabs I have seen from watching nature documentaries.
3:34 CRAB: why HELLO there 👋 📀3📀💗
So was that crab stabbing noise added in, or did they have a mic close by and that's what it really sounded like.
Added in. Pretty sure their cameras pick up almost no usable sound and a lot of the audio is careful foley work and sound design, minus specific animal calls and things like that.
@@PrismTheKid and
2:35 the look of terror on the face! 😓
I had the honour of meeting an entire parade of red crabs on the long stretch of sand at the edge of Chilika Lake. The narrow stretch of land that divided the lake and the ocean, was infested with red-crab population. I was walking on the shore sipping coconut water, as a red crab walked passed me. I found it hell'a cute, so I followed it. It went inside a burrow almost immideately. A minute later it came out to peep, whether I was still there or gone. I looked ahead, and holy moly, there were God knows how many (but I am guessing a close to million) crabs looking at me, in perfect lines of three, like the ones in a marching parade, staring back at me. They were looking at me curiously, peeking out of their tiny holes. It was up till the horizon, as far as my eyes could see.
I throttled one step on the ground, with force, likely to scare them off. It worked. They went back in- all together. A minute later, they slowly come out again. I walk towards them and they quickly hide in their hidey holes within a blink of an eye. It was a wierd game that I was enjoying all by myself. Best summer ever. I was barely 15 at that time!
...k
The honor of meeting...? WOW!
That's absolutely incredible :). Thanks for sharing your story!
I was hoping the would carry you around like a sports hero hitting a game winning goal
@@mattf9076and everybody clapped
2:11 A Giant Enemy Crab appears
I can't believe that crab that eats other crabs🙄
Coconut crab
Other crab : why I heard boss music ??
3:34 Look mom! I'm in a TV show
The only place you will see more crabs is on that high school cheerleader who is dating the entire football team.
Is this how the crab rave starts?
0:33 there was a white crab .
PoodleCorp albino maybe?
No it's a different kind of land crab. Different eyes. I think it's one of those with the huge claw
White Army vs. Red Army in a nutshell
He's been using sunscreen as recommended by dermatologists.
👋🏿🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀👍🏿
it was a rainforest land crab
03:34
David Attenborough: "A massive wave of red crabs...."
Red crab: "Here we see Sir David Attenborough"
So the Red Army Rises with 45 million.
Impressive
quantity over quality
Germans: **angry incoherent screaming**
@@sem3479 and that is why I hate collectivism
Kim Jung who?
I dunno but I feel hungry watching them 😂
😁😁
They arent edible.
45 million red crabs walk by
robber/coconut crab: well this is awkward.
8 yr old me trying to find my mom in the mess 3:23
2:44 wow, so deadly
This is my favorite video this channel has posted! Thank you!
P.S. Is there any way we can get longer videos, even full length documentaries perhaps?
@@Mellotiminium-nb8wp you know he's dead right?
@@batcat2338 ?
*Crabs:* "SUFFOCATION! NO BREATHING! DON'T GIVE A DAMN IF MY ARM IS BLEEDING!"
they're actually marching towards stalincrab
Ooh my little red babies, oh how they walk sideways, so red and baby. I love them.
I expected for there to be crab rave as background music
3:35 Woo Hoo, I'm on the telly!!
Amusing creatures.
F u
Alien Philosopher
2:37
red crab: "Yea... im gonna have to ask you to not do that..."
robber crabs: "CALLA CAGADA"
Crabs: _exist_
Entire comment sections: Yummy!
Please can y'all stop viewing these crustaceans as mere food? They're fascinating creatures too.
Agreed. I stopped eating crab meat because I find them too fascinating and endearing, and I always feel horrible for them when I see them and lobsters in live tanks at grocery stores.
Read this while eating some crab legs
Bdo amt mri mkn kaki crab nyam nyam nyam, tngnny psti bnyk dgng 😂😂😂😋😋😋😜😜😜😜
@@miaursia6998 ? Engles?
Crab eat crabs. Mr. Krabs knew what he put in dem formulas
Crab Rave behind the scenes before they danced.
😆
3:08 that ain’t no crab that a lobster with crab legs and a turtle shell
3:34 Mom! Im on RUclips mom Hi RUclips
I felt like an animation series !!,😂😂
Moving red carpets of nature.
Nice video.
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
So many bright red crabs everywhere would a sight to behold. Such an amazing spectacle.
Wow, what a good time for them, with inland direction and distance.
So very good tickling the ground and tree with there crawling gifts. So ideal.
CRAB RAVE!
When this pandemic is over... I'm heading to Christmas Island so I can play "Crab Rave" at full volume on a bluetooth speaker...
How would you have any reason to dislike a video like this-
Because nobody is cooking them. They're predators are dead and the population is over 100 million.
am scare of crabs but this video is worth to watch . just amazing nature. thank you BBC earth.
Ouf course you are scared, you are Turkish...😬
Sehr strange phobia
Red crab numbers? OUR crab numbers.
*Zoidberg noises*
Ziodberg intensifies*
Ziodberg says hi
WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOOP
Lol this is the Eastern Europe guy from pickle Rick😂😂
3:34 *"hi Mom I'm on TV"*
That one crab that said hi to the camera is my best friend now
Lots of crabs, go straight to my kitchen..🦀🥘😋
3:35 the crab just like "hello there human"
MASHAA'ALLAH..... Love the color contrast..... Red, Brown, Green.
Love u Mother Nature!!!!
Amen
*the crab at **3:34** be like : Hello mom, im on TV*
me hears the background music,and thinks-
*I have never heard of Christmas island in india*
Stfu
2:06 the apperance of the titan crab
But everything changed when the crazy yellow ants nation attacked..
1:10 bird : that's crab look at me so menacingly
Sweet and sour Crabs yummmy😋
3:35 be like:"Hello guys,welcome to our tribe, let's do a tour"
I want a pet crab now, they’re adorable :3
giant crab : look at me ! I am the captain in this island now !!
"A nesting booby is best avoided"
XD
The cinematography in here is on an another level
That zerg rush tho xD
The way the mother in the nest scared the crabs😂😂😂
when you and the boyss accidently comes in the room of the BOSS
2:14
They look T A S T Y
I mean bootiful
No rlly
I'm hungry
1:54 my friends when they heard i got extra pocket money
They're on their way to Crab Rave 2: Electric Crabaloo.
"I'm on tv! " 3:35
The remind me of drunk people slowly leaving the pub going home 🤣 🦀
3:30 it's like they are playing music chair 🎶 😁😁😁
Yeeeh that's the power of red😍 👍😆how beautiful they are...
I totally forgot that one day i was bitten by them😁😁😁
3:34 that one super hyped sports event fan
My heart: don't type it
My brain: don't but... I am curious
Okay, can we eat them? I mean look at the color and that coconut crab looks delicious, too
Same thoughts😂
Red crabs on Christmas island 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯.. Merry Christmas 😄🎄🎁❄🎅😄🎄🎁❄🎅
When I see the small one my brain said : " no it's have no meat inside"
And then giant comes and I think " oh my gosh, that would be so tasty"
I'm sorry but when I see this kind videos I can't take the knowledge, I can't help think about food 🤣🤣
That looks like a crab buffet! If i were on this island all I'll ever need would be a fork, spoon, cooking pot and stove. And probably salt and butter.
3:34 Hello. You take care 😘🦀
imagine living as a crab then looking for your crush that you saw yesterday
Sorry to tell you, but it was _crushed_ by the robber crab
3:34 “SPRING BREAK 2015!!! WOOO!!”
They're so bright red n i find dem cute, idk why hahaha
3:34 hi mom, I'm on TV
😂
That's a lot crabs. LOL!! WOW!
Me four years later
* C R A B R A V E *
that coconut crab looks a lot more spider like than most crabs I've seen.
1:10 My face when little kids are swarming me.
*Ah!*
You even used it as your profile pic XD
@@megajeremy90001 I legit forgot that I made it my profile pic, it's been 3 freakin years xD
@@TheIronBlade wow congratulations buddy.
2:44 how can the sound be so vivid?
Lio McGylvie foley artists. Probably squished a melon or something
I just want to cook it all😂😂😂
🔥
They are bitter.
Me too 😁😁
Is it safe to eat?
Every crab turns red after cooking anyway.