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NATURE & GASTRONOMY

 

 

 

  mangrove crabs

 

Thailand

Mangrove crabs can sometimes be seen climbing the buttress roots of mangrove (fig.).

 

Though most live on the muddy floor of mangrove wetlands.

 

  mangrove crabs

 

  mangrove crabs

 

In Thai they are known by the generic name poo pah chai len.

 

Thailand has about thirty species of mangrove crab.

 

  mangrove crabs

 

  mangrove crabs

 

Some species are quite colourful.

 

 

 

  mangrove crabs

 

  mangrove crabs

 

 

 

Others are rather dull, with camouflage colours that fit in with the environment.

 

  mangrove crabs

 

  mangrove crabs

 

 

 

There are also several kinds of fiddler crab (fig.).

 

  mangrove crabs

 

  mangrove crabs

 

Mangrove crabs usually live in burrows.

 

All species live peacefully together.

 

  mangrove crabs

 

  mangrove crabs

 

All the crabs in the pictures shown here were spotted in a mangrove forest in Krabi.

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