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Anonymous
To defend its coconut tree, a coconut crab would leap down upon an intruder's head or any other extremity. Then, using its powerful claws, that can shell coconuts with ease, the crab cracks open the skull or breaks the bones of the body part it caught onto. This usually results in the intruder's death or persuades it to go away and find another tree without a coconut crab living in it.
Humans who pick coconuts for a living very cautiously examine the trees before they climb them, but actual incidences of death by coconut crab are very few and far in between.
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