Christmas Island Red Crabs

Red Lobster. Hey with all those crabs we can ship them to Africa.

if you eat it its very posionus cause there would be no crabs and the whole island will be fat

You're saying that they're poisonous cause they'll get you fat? Then you have a broad definition of the word poisonous.

There is no such thing as poisonous crabs cus they're meat is nearly 96 percent water

Poisonous Xanthid Crabs
Family Xanthidae
Order Decapoda

Most of the known poisonous crabs belong to this family.|

It is still not known how they accumulate the toxins, most of which are similar to those in puffer fishes (neurotoxins), or why they themselves are immune to it.

These toxins cannot be destroyed by cooking, and are extremely potent.

Get it right.

thanks! so many people will die before they get it right yet it's only 3 little words.....one of my pet peeves

Def. they could make millions!

Love the idea.. think i'll just do it!

I COULDNT LIVE LIKE THAT

GOOD IDEA

yes we get what ur saying B-)

;)

i love me some crab legs. the little ones would be like tic tacs.

hey. i am an islander and i can give you some more info about the island. CI(Christmans Island) is a nice and fun place to live

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CI(Christmas Island) is the only place you can see red crabs.


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CI is the most relaxing place to be. the red crabs arent that dangerous so dw. i have being living there for 18yrs now. in other words i have lived there my whole life

I know exactly what you mean! (shiver)

that may be true but u can't find the red crab ne where else in the world except for christmas island. not even on the other christmas island

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once they take the legs, there's rehab for the crabs, counseling, medicine, walkers and wheelchairs. It's only 'till their legs grow back, but it's still expensive.

them walking sideways? Ya just walk until you bump into something?

Exactly like me when I've had a tiny bit too much wine!! (My cupeth overfloweth)

YOU'RE the one that's probably the life of the party, Swanie!!! And don't even TRY to tell me you've never put a lamp shade on your head! HA HAAAA!

bed pan.... now that's a different story.. lol

No baby ruth's, hopefully! :o)

I bet you that little "bonhomme" at the end of your comment looks just like you!
Cute! :o) (If you studied french.. well then you know what a bonhomme is, don't you?)

a light, chicken gravy? I remember that 'bon' is good and homme is human, right? And I guess it sort of looks like me, with my head tilted to the side, like when I'm eating a taco or a hear a dog whistle.

You better ask for your money back on that French course you took Dragos! and we call hot dogs.. Le hot dog. (only the French french can't for some reason pronounce the 'h' so it's "le ot dog") Also the French french put an "h" before words that start with "a". example: (hehe) asshole is pronounced "hassole" . Now aren't you glad you're getting all these french lessons for free? I'm accepting your thanks as I type.

Tu vu mon desser? (do you want my dessert?) "Ah wood-ah like fairy mush to leahrn moor of-ah you're languash! Ah ahlreadie have zee accent, no?"
And isn't that kind of like the heavily accented spanish that say sheck instead of check and chower instead of shower? JUST SWITCH THE FIRST LETTERS AROUND, FER CRYIN' OUT LOUD!

now you have to grow a little moustache and you'll will pass zee test!

have zee moosetache, as-ah you can tell by mah peecture on-ah here. Eeez ah leetle boooshier, but it's-ah quite a nice!

it's --- hain't no hassoles haround this harea! ---- or something like that, right?

and your french sounds quite Québecois! Merci mes amours!!! (ssmmooooch)

you gave Peikko ze first ssssmooch! I mus' shallange heem to ha dual!

non, mah frien', dere ees no need for le offense here. witt madmoiselle's peeermission, i cahn geeve to you thees kees from her (ssmmooooch!) hand shee cahn geeve to me hanother. dere. ees eet better now?
eef monsieur is steel offended, ok, ah cahn hagree to ze dual since ah know ah cahn reely upon monsieur to choose suitable weapons. (may ah suggest ze claw du crab at 20 paaces? ah zeem to remember zomethin' about crabs here at one point.....! ; )

vous petité fille! (your real french speaking amis must be howling by now! :))

I zink we can take heem, Peiko mah frien'! If we wait untill he ees hasleep, we can bean him with a fryin' pan-ah!

zee frying pan--- but of course! hasleep ees ok witt me but for zee shhhallenge we chould do eet as he's standing up. (have you zeen the film 'eating raoul'? zey have peeerfected zee frying pan Bing! very well)

a light , chicken gravy! ;)))) you two are killing me!

It goes ah-fairy nicely wid zee po-ta-tooooos an' zee crab legs! BON! (pops lips with hand).

Ah cahn yuust zee/hare you making zee POP!

hehe

Lol either wouldnt bother me but id rather it be a spider than a crab....spider's don't hurt

And THEN see if you still think that.You have NO IDEA what you are talking about.Or a banana spider.THOSE bastards hurt like HELL!And I don't even think the suckers are particulary poisonous.Evil looking things though.Black and yellow big and menacing looking.spin very stron webs across paths between trees.I've walked into their webs HUNDREDS of times and just the thought still freaks me the fu#k out.

God that sounds awful !! For sure NOW i will have nightmares! Thanks alot!

You crack me up!!!

Sure they don't. Try getting bit by a brown recluse sometime. It's "painless."

gave me goosebumps all over.. seriously.

these 'brown recluses'? is there another name for them? are they only around where you live? (well, i hardly expect you to know the answer to that one). how big/small are they?

Vary in size but most are fairly small.They are brown and pretty ugly if you ask me.Long spindly legs like twigs.I've been bitten once by one.Twice by a black widow.Both are very common in South Texas where I live.Got gangrene where the recluse bit me.Thought that wound was NEVER gonna heal.

check out the "Redback Spider" which is closely related to the "Black Widow of America" and one of our other nasty varieties is the "Funnel Web Spider" (the male is approx 5 times more venomous then the female). Hell, I can't even stand seeing a daddy long legs spider.

that northern Australia is home to some of the most venomous spiders and snakes in the world. They'd laugh at our black widows and brown recluses.

I'm outta here! Too freaky. Dragos, if you don't stop, I'm going to take a picture of the biggest and scariest RABBIT with the longest and deadliest BIG POINTY TEETH and I will post it where I'm sure you'll look! and I will name the evil rabbit the "Dragostum eviltos Leporid" and have it mate in your backyard! (lol)

and tiring search on Ebay, I finally found a Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Brother Maynard sold it to me after an hour of haggling. Soooo, bring on your nasty, filthy 'Dragostum eviltos Leporid' and I shall blow it to holy bits on the count of 5...I mean 3! (hopefully you've seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail)!

My Dragostum Eviltos Leporid sounds even funnier when you use it somehow! Gotta write that down somewhere in case I get that clue in my crosswords or I may need it to put you back in line when you start with spiders!! lol

I would NEVER... (O)=halo over my head. (muuaahaa!)=evil laugh.

i remember hearing one quite-sure- famous song about a 'redback on the toilet' or 'redback in the outhouse' or something like that. and i had been thinking to ask if those brown recluses were otherwise known as daddy longlegs, but after reading everyones comments, i know now that they're not!

it was, There was a redbank on the toilet seat when I was there last night, I didn't see him in the dark but i sure felt his bite, now here I am in hospital a sad and sorry sight and I cursed the redback spider on the toilet seat last night .......... lol

gotta be a country song, right? I can almost hear the steel guitar in the background.

Ya PULL me back in !! (Picture Al Pacino) I remember that song.. it's called "The Redback Blues". Now, that's it! I'm not coming back to this clip...well...

i think i vaguely remember the tune (but then who couldn't--- even if you had never heard it! ;) from some university radio station or such. just reading the words puts the tune in your head already!

it was nice of you to refresh my memory. However i think poor Swanie is shivering somewhere with a panicked stare in her eyes about now!

for MetaCafe buddies... you sure know me well !

what are friends for except to press a buzzer to your hand when you're already jittery? ; D

ur metacafe buddies will always be there for you!!! =D

Australia is crossed off my list of places to visit... thanks, Vixen.

a violin or fiddle shape on their back?

No, you're thinking of the fiddleback spider, also poisonous. The black widows have a red hourglass shape on their back. I think. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Never, Never, Never.. will I go visit you in South Texas!

but I did read a book that featured those spiders and they are deadly. I usually read murder mysteries (I read alot) and this guy used these spiders to kill his victims.. ugh! (I forget the name of the book)

on those nights, huh? : )

you must be an american?