The CrabAnimal Report

Felipe Bermudez

What does it look like?The common sea crab has a great variety

coloring, brow, green, red and grey.The body is covered by a waxy shell more or less.

Where does it live?

They live under the earth near sea or the river and build underground caves to hide.

How does it move?The body of the crab has appendices,

usually in pairs, which serve for locomotion (5 pairs) and a couple of them as sensory antennae.

What does it eat?The Crab feeds on algae and other organic

matter that captures with its small legs. Feeds of animal materials and plants.

How does it get his food?The front legs bear pincers used in

feeding, defense, and visualization.

What type of biome does it prefer?

It inhabits rocky shores, estuaries, intertidal or sandy soils.

What is its behavior? Reproductive and social behavior

sometimes includes mating rituals complex and techniques of communication such as typing or shaking the pliers. Crabs tend to be aggressive between them, and males often fight for access to females.

How does it defense its self?

The crab defends itself with their pinsas.

What animals do kill it?

Birds such as seagulls, reptiles such as turtles, lizards and amphibians such as the Toad in cane, mammals such as rats, fish such as yellowing tuna.

Is it in danger of extinction?

If and the populations of crabs has dropped since they are used as bait for catching buccino and snails.