Coconut Crabs’ Awesome Pinching Force
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By Beauregard Laura, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
New research finally quantifies the pinching force of the coconut crab’s claws, and finds it to exceed the bite force of most land mammals.
Read the entire post at the PLOS Ecology Blog: Giant Coconut Crabs Pinch Harder Than Most Animals Bite.
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