Talk:Coconut crab

message: Hey guys. Vacationing in Jamaica for my 13th birthday, I was coming back to my room from the a club one night around midnight. I was walking up a set of stairs when something large and heavy fell on my head, literally.  I looked down surprised and saw the biggest "spider" I had ever seen! I immediately shrieked and stomped on it. It was destroyed rather easily and after my initial freight I was deeply saddened for killing a living creature, (even though I am deathly afraid of spiders). I didn't know what it was until recently, (some 13 years later). But I wanted to say it was brown and blackish, with out claws/pinchers.  I remember the next day a little drama unfolded when the workers were asking around to see who had killed the creature and if they had been attacked.  I figured it was an endangered species or something so I kept my mouth shut. But this was a terribly tragic experience for me, and I just wanted to share it. Wikilich (talk) 02:35, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the range information, coconut crabs are not found in the Atlantic Ocean.  SlowJog (talk) 22:43, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

text: Yeah! Great work! Mark Richards 22:48, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I saw the question at the wikipedia:reference desk, including the photo found by Mark Richards. Thought it would be a waste to have such a nice photo with no article to go with. I'll be also checking some german links soon, which seem to have some additional info. -- Chris 73 | Talk 02:25, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

text: Thanks for your editing. Most of my sources are different webpages, and very few are peer reviewed scientific journals, so your source is just fine. Actually, I had the feeling that the habitat was not yet complete, and I was missing a few spots. Thanks for the update. Chris 73 | Talk 06:27, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Older comments

message: Why is "Coconut Crab" consistently capitalized, even in the title? Compare for example hermit crab. — Ливай | ☺ 21:20, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Compare fx "cat" :). I fixed it. Thue | talk 22:41, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Species names are capitalized. See Red-throated Diver, Black-crowned Night Heron, Australian Land Hermit Crab, Ecuadorian Hermit Crab, et al. It is hermit crab which is incorrect. it should be Hermit Crab. If you want to find the lengthy dialog on this decision, I can track it down. it occurred over a year ago. Kingturtle 23:16, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for informing me. No need to track down the discussion itself. I figured there must have been some reason it was written like that and not changed; now my curiosity is satisfied. — Ливай | ☺ 03:22, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: Why isn't all instances of "cat" capitalized? *curious* Thue | talk 23:49, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: If you are referring to cats, wild species of the family Felidae are capitalized: Black-footed Cat, Flat-headed Cat, Canadian Lynx, Bengal Tiger, Indochinese Tiger, Clouded Leopard, etc. Breeds of domestic cats also utilize the same capitalization rule: Maine Coon, Turkish Angora, British Shorthair, Egyptian Mau to name but a few. All of these species are catagorized officially by scientific groups. But breed names are more tricky - and might not always fall into official catagorization. There may also be some instances outside of the scientific categorization of kinds of cats - and  such instances won't follow the capitalization rule, such as Feral cat. I hope this helps. :) Kingturtle 01:30, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: This is a highly contentious issue. If it were up to me, I'd say only birds should be capitalised, and as it says at: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna) -- and see also the associated talk page. Wikipedia articles have gone crazy capitalising all species from Blue Whale to Dingo for some weird reason. If there was a vote on the issue I'd say "coconut crab" with small c's and "dingo" with a small d. Further debate should probably be on the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)'s talk page. --Pengo 08:09, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The symantical reason for the capital letters is simple. it distinguishes between a black bear (any bear that is black) and a Black Bear (a bear of the Ursus americanus species). Kingturtle 17:32, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If it were up to me the difference would be between "black bear" and "blackbear" (like "blue bird" and "bluebird") but hey, I don't write the dictionaries. Whatever works I guess... — Ливай | ☺ 10:15, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: I am in the camp that it should be Coconut Crab. Read my reasons above for this position. I'd be willing to take the time personally to make such changes to ALL articles that would need to be changed to make this consistant. Kingturtle 01:41, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Coconut Crab"? 

message: The Coconut Crab is also known as "Bubble Crab".
:No references found online in connection with the coconut crab -- Chris 73 Talk 03:45, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
In Portuguese it is named "Caranguejo-de-Bôlha"(i.e Bubble's Crab) perhaps in another related languages is also.
In the Northern Part of the Philippines they are called Tatos and they are a delicacy 19:30, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Name 

message: This article is considered to fall outside the scope of the Version 0.5 test release, which is of limited size.  It is now being held ready for a later version. Jaranda wat's sup 05:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  V 0.5 nom 

message: I think Jan Vermeer's excellent entry in this year's Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition would make an great addition to the article, but i'm not sure whether it would qualify as fair use.  Anyone have an idea?  --Piet Delport 02:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks copyrighted, and since we have lots of free pics already, I would advise against claiming free use. -- Chris 73 | Talk 07:52, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jan Vermeer's "Coconut crab going up" photo 

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thread_title:  FAR 

message: Was/is the coconut crab eaten as a food by humans? Badagnani (talk) 04:20, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Food? 

message: In Physical Description:
"The body of the coconut crab is a mixture of orange and playful seven"
What the heck does that mean? Is this a typo/vandalism?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.8.48.157 (talk) 20:55, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.Mokele (talk) 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "playful seven" 

message: apomorphic is poor use in an encyclopedia article.  I realize a blu link helps define the term and that it is a good specialist term.  Still bad usage in wiki.  I think I will write an essay on this growing practice.  72.82.52.106 (talk) 16:24, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  word choice 

message: Map does not match distribution.  Map shows Taiwan, etc. having crabs, but this is not mentioned in the text.  Also, the map does not call out the features described in the text, for instance Christmas Island.  Let's push ourselves more to make a quality product.  Give people what they would get in a pay encyclopedia.  Then we can talk about wiki being better than Britanica.  72.82.52.106 (talk) 12:40, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  distribution 

message: Just in case anyone's watching, I should warn ye that I plan to restore this article to its former FA glory, so don't be alarmed by the changes. Wish me luck! Sasata (talk) 05:17, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Former Featured Article Rescue 

message: It would be nice to have an image of the crab with either a human person or else some object of well-known size in it (match box, box of cigarettes, dollar bill etc.), so that the size of the animal can be made visually obvious. Thanks! -- 92.229.105.68 (talk) 15:39, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image with human in it? 

message: Was it really necessary to say the crab is "sympatric" with man merely to say their territory overlaps?? Except for the bottom of the sea and wild reserves, are there any species anywhere on Earth that are not "sympatric" with man?  I am not a biology or evolutionary expert but it seems to me this word was not meant to be used in this context. 24.214.155.48 (talk) 18:49, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sympatric with man?? 

message: Apparently her remains were eaten by these things. 76.219.110.140 (talk) 19:52, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Amelia Earhart]] 

message: The Coconut crab is a protected species on Diego Garcia. The crab in the photo is one on Diego Garcia. The photo is germain to the section and to the article. --Revmqo (talk) 14:15, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: But there's no way of seeing from the image that it's in Diego Garcia, and so it doesn't illustrate that fact. It's just another picture of a coconut crab, with nothing special to recommend it. It's not at particularly high resolution; it's not particularly well composed. Indeed, Diego Garcia isn't even mentioned in the Conservation section, so it couldn't possibly be illustrating that. It adds nothing that isn't already shown by the existing images, and thus fails WP:IUP. --Stemonitis (talk) 15:04, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conservation 

message: The article states more than once that adult coconut crabs will drown in the ocean, but also says that reproduction happens in the water, with adult crabs having been found as far as 6km offshore. Can someone reconcile these pieces of information? --170.145.0.100 (talk) 17:29, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Current reading of the article is that fertilization takes place on land, but hatching eggs are released at the shore line.  And the 6km is inland, not offshore. 192.4.0.12 (talk) 20:02, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adult survival in water - seeming inconsistency 

message: It's a Drupe according to the following Wikipedia articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupe
Can someone knowledgeable about this subject edit the article to reflect that please?
50.170.31.164 (talk) 20:16, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coconut is not a nut. 

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message: I've removed the claim that coconut crabs may have consumed Earhart's remains, as per the discussion on her talk page. This species faces enough threats to its population, without tabloidy scaremongering ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 14:47, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see the discussion you linked, but I'm guessing that's just because that talk page was cleared since then, since this talk post is pretty old. Regardless, the validity of the whole "eaten by coconut crabs" conspiracy theory (And let there be no doubt, it is a conspiracy theory) is pretty irrelevant to the cultural phenomenon surrounding it. I've readded a mention of this in the "Relationship with humans" section, alongside a rebuttal of it as anything aside from a conspiracy theory/internet meme. I think it'd be better to bring it up and then refute it than to pretend that it doesn't exist at all, especially since several edits appear to have been made/undone since then that express this in a more matter-of-fact way. Myconix (talk) 17:19, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amelia Earhart (again) 

message: Someone reversed my edit and said that it didn't belong in the introduction. I selected that placement because that is where the article was talking about what the crabs eat. Where should I put that there is some evidence they hunt birds? Most Humble and Obedient Servant (talk) 23:08, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  hunting birds 

message: This critter has been entered into :Category:Apex predators. Can anyone explain why it might get that designation? What animals does it prey upon?--Mike Selinker (talk) 00:50, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  apex predator? 

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