Daily Nature Fix: We've Got Crabs. (Original Photos)

   Good evening, nature fans.  We're going to be taking a look at a couple of crustaceans that I spotted while in Costa Rica.  A couple of nights ago I posted some photos from that trip and one of them showed a little crab on a branch way up in a bush; and I realized I had a couple other crab photos in the stash.

^^^Here's a halloween crab, Gecarcinus quadratus, we spotted on the jungle floor.  I was pretty stoked to see these guys pop up on the hike because they only spend a portion of their adult life inland like this.  They spend a good portion of their life in the ocean, where they breed.  

^^^Here's the photo I posted the other night that gave me the idea for this DNF post.  Until I saw this little guy in a shrub 6 or 7 feet off the ground, I had no idea there were arboreal crabs like this.  There were several of them in the area too.  It was an awesome surprise and I learned something new. 

^^^I lifted up a big log along the shore in Manuel Antonio and saw this:  TONS of hermit crabs (Cenobite compress)! There were hundreds of a all different ages and sizes.  I've always like hermit crabs... it was especially cool to see them in their native habitat, rather than shitty petstore setups.  

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