Because people step on them
coconut crabs sneak up and lunge at they pray then devour them
no they do not!
They would also be extinct because if there is no crabs ( which is their food) they would die.
These kind of crabs steal cocoanuts.
Coconut crabs us a series of complex physical movements to communicate with other crabs. They would use one behavioral display to say many things to avoid miscommunication.
They are not nearly extinct. They are not on the endangered species list.
food
I wish >8U
They eat Coconut crab
Pigs and other crabs
The are not fully extinct but nearly extinct.
Coconut crabs do not live in trees they live in borrows under trees. The reason they go up in the trees is to retrieve the coconuts up there. After the get the coconuts down they open them with their powerful claws and eat the coconut.