Thread 513766596

These babies will get to be the size of sheep by the end of the season.

My question is why haven't any big companies come in and started processing them into meat? They get so big that we don't even have stray dogs or cats any more. Or bids.

>>513766654
That would mean raising them instead of just catching them in the wild. Then you have to feed them, and wait for them to grow. It starts to lose economic viability.

>>513766654
they eat toxic garbage and because of that the meat tastes nasty and isn't good for you. if you raised them in a farm off something good they'd taste better but then >>513767319

>>513766596 (OP)
That is a coconut crab
I almost got one as a pet. Then I decided to get a Berber Skink instead
I named him Sunny

>>513767319
>That would mean raising them instead of just catching them in the wild.
So? Why not domesticate them?

>>513767380
>they eat toxic garbage
Why not confine them and feed them kale and lab-grown meat?

coconut crab in britian starts a city wide lockdown

>>513766596 (OP)
can you train them, like attack dogs?

>>513767452
it would be prohibitively expensive. probably end up being more money than just harvesting wild large crab species.

>>513767544
Checked but they are too tough to eat and too large to usefully harvest. They weigh 200 pounds when mature you know. Just an armored eating machine.

>>513766596 (OP)
whereas I have sheep the size of crabs sneaking under my door and eating all of my fabrics

>>513767814
if you had a new zealand flag this would have been more funny

>>513766596 (OP)
That type of crab ate Amelia Earnhardt

>>513767529
i've wanted to do this since i moved here in 16
decided it wasn't a good idea
everyone here eats coconut crabs and you'd have to train it to be particularly mean for it to protect itself
like having an attack-crocodile in your front yard, you want an attack-creature that respects you and not your enemies
I'm not sure you could get both out of coconut crab
I have met/seen one that was trained though.
this guy had one at a weekly tourist flea market here that he had domesticated to take pictures with the japs/koreans. It was docile. So they can be trained to some extent I guess.

>>513767926
Her plane was found a few years back. Turns out she met a vibrant and enriched death at the hands of people who truly didn't know any better, and no laws were broken.

In reality, she defected to the Nazis and became Leni Reifenstahl.

>>513766596 (OP)
Wtf where is this at? Are you lying, op? If not, then what do these things taste like?

>>513767700
Really? I’ve heard coconut crabs are delicious

>>513768103
They can't be eaten, they have too much urea in the flesh. Same reason you don't eat hermit crabs. It helps them to move on land. Land crabs anon, these are land crabs.

>>513768202
quick someone summon bunch of japanese guys to play trumpets and drums at it

>>513768202
I’ve def seen YouTube videos where fake survival guys catch and eat coconut crabs. Must be a different species

>>513768242
Only chance is tiny Japanese ladies and a moth spirit they can summon.

>>513768281
It would make you sick.

>>513768376
You’re full of shit

https://youtu.be/XUDBoTC5bB0

>>513767380
Because scavengers as a rule taste like trash. It takes a really special set of genetics to make meat that is neural in taste if all you eat is garbage.

you leave the coconut crab in a 5 gallon home depot bucket with a pre-opened coconut for a couple weeks before you eat them
same way you "purge" bathtub carp
I imagine they taste worse the bigger they get but fear not, ones like the pic in OP are all but extinct outside of the most remote islands. Takes them like 50-75 years to get that big.

>>513768506
Oh you might choke a bit down on a dare. But you can't eat it for a meal or subsist on it.

>>513768376
i beg to differ
https://youtu.be/9fGw7WEvqZo

>>513769003
Well we will have to agree to disagree.

>>513768202
I'd soak them in butter and lemon juice to get the urea out. It would probably be fine.

>>513766596 (OP)
Make a thread on /an/

>>513766654
They’re land crabs dude, they’re like all shell.

>>513767448
it's these little windows into the lives of others...

>>513770210
It takes one look at the urea compound to determine that it is a water soluble molecule. That is also intuitively obvious from how you expel urea yourself.

why not selectively breed them? I don't get it

>>513773793
then breed them for more meat

>>513773793
them shells good eatin

>>513773793
>>513774400
>>513774494
I fed one to my garloids once and it made them sick.

ahh this is hell

>>513768013
>In reality, she defected to the Nazis and became Leni Reifenstahl.