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Mangrove Crab
Mangrove Crab
Karwar, Karnataka, 16 February 2008
Camera :  NIKON D200
Shutter-speed :   1/250 sec
Aperture :   f 5.6
Exposure Mode :   Aperature Priority
ISO :   320
Exposure Compensation :   -1.3 EV
Flash :   No Flash
Focal Length :   450 mm
A large number of crabs are also found in mangroves which survive by eating the fallen leaves of mangrove tree species. Digested by crabs, they enter back into the organic cycle as excreted detritus. These crabs are highly cannibalistic in nature and when another crab undergoes moult, the hard shelled ones attack the moulting crabs and devour them. The females can give birth to one million offsprings at a time.