ANIMAL NATION - RED CRABS CRAZY ANTS

Located 223 miles south of Jakarta, Australia's Christmas Island is home to one of nature's greatest, most colourful and most spectacular natural mass migrations. Each year this pristine island?s shoreline is covered with an ankle-deep carpet of red crabs, as the females commence a spawning frenzy, each jettisoning their cache of 100,000 eggs into the sea. Yet while this should be increasing their numbers, they are actually dropping - due to an alien invader. During their annual migration across the island many of the crabs are falling victim to the yellow crazy ant, which were accidentally introduced by immigrants more than 50 years ago. These ants have disrupted the status quo and now not only are the red crabs? future in jeopardy but entire ecology of the island is at risk.
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• wildlife
• red
• crabs
• crazy
• ants
• insects

[TXejas19]

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[TXejas19]

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[MsCorrupt1]

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[Ybrain100]

Christmas Island, descoberto 25 de dezembro de 1643, apenas uma menor especificação de terra no Oceano Índico. A migração anual de caranguejo vermelho para o início da temporada de chuvas, no entanto, menos tão grande que pode ser visto do ar. Foi um AMED e maravilha do mundo natural. Este programa segue a partir deste Terrestre Burrow Rainforest artrópodes o'i, Across paisagem perigoso para o oceano para acasalar.

[VisionofOrion]

Sort of like the goats on galapagos. Its amazing how introduction of one seemingly insignifigant organism can disrupt an ecosystem.

I saw this play out on that new "migrations" show. It was said that the Ants take a terrible toll but through mass of numbers the crabs push through I guess over time as the ants increase it could provide a real threat to the crabs.