You can find land crabs in our gated complex, 'Kool Baii Villas'. There holes look like gopher holes. The crabs only venture away from their holes at night or when it's raining in order to search for food. They eat just about anything they can find including their own young, dead things, and garbage.
They are rather large crabs, growing to about four or five inches in diameter not including their formidable claws. During the day you may see them standing just outside a hole into which they will quickly descend as soon as they notice your approach... We also have this hole is our back yard which usually has a cover on. I'm not exactly sure what the hole is for. Any way in the evening we take the cover off and through bread in the whole and the land crab will come out to feast. The kids love watching them.
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