Wednesday, October 9, 2019

SAND BUBBLER CRAB ART - PANTAI BEACH, LANGKAWI

We had finished visiting all the major spots in Langkawi and we only had this place remaining. My wife was negotiating with me to give up visiting this place for some shopping that she wanted to do. But I pressed for going here.

Unlike the black sand beach that was pretty lonely, we spotted a lot of people here.



We spotted sand-bubbler crabs, at the Pantai Beach, Langkawi, Malaysia. Sand-bubbler crabs of the genera Dotilla and Scopimera produce remarkable patterns and structures at tropical beaches.


These crabs live in burrows in the sand, where they remain during high tide. When the tide is out and gone, they emerge on to the surface of the sand, and scour the sand for food, forming it into inflated pellets, which cover the sand.

The speciality of these crabs is that breathe air with their legs-Scopimera and Dotilla.













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