Giant Crab
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Cunaepraedator is a fictional species of crabs that were created for Peter Jackson's 2005 film King Kong, but that did not make it into the film. However, they were used in Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie, and The World of Kong.
Design
Cunaepraedators are grayish-brownish in color. They have four pincer-claws, six eyes and six legs they use to walk. They appear in The World of Kong as brown, dome-shaped creatures with four, stubby pincers.
History
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
A Cunaepraedator attacked the Venture crew members.
Books
King Kong: The Island of the Skull
While diving for pearls in the waters approaching Skull Island, Sam Kelley and his young associate Jason discovered enormous pearls before they were attacked by a Cunaepraedator. In the struggle, the crab used its claws to hew Jason in half. Fortunately for Kelley, the scent of Jason's blood attracted a shark which ate the Cunaepraedator before it could do him any harm.
The World of Kong
Cunaepraedators were a species of coast-dwelling crabs that evolved beyond the need for water, and lived entirely on land. Females kept eggs in a special compartment under their bodies. The eggs were fertilized by males using their large pincers to tip females up and clasping their secondary pincers to the female's. The eggs hatch immediately into small crabs, with no larval stage. After a time of crawling over the mother, the infants would be gently brushed off on a seabird's nest, where they would grow and develop feeding on nest scraps or dead hatchlings. After the birds left the nest, so would the Cunaepraedators, and they would join their parents as adult scavengers.[1]
Gallery
A female Cunaepraedator crawling with babies.
In Other Languages
- Serbian and Montenegrin: Кунаепраедатор / Kunaepraedator
- Croatian and Bosnian: Kunaepraedator
Trivia
- Cunaepredators live near water and in flooded caves.
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- ↑ Weta Workshop. (November 22, 2005) The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island, p. 25. Pocket Books.
