ROBBER-CRABS 



These powerful land crabs inhabit deep burrows, which they make for themselves 

 beneath the roots of trees. They climb trees and eat cocoa-nuts, which they break 

 open by hammering upon one end of the shell with their huge pincers. In the 

 burrows they accumulate immense quantities of cocoa-nut fibre, which the Malays 

 sometimes collect to use as junk. 



