A Red Crab Race To The Ocean! Christmas Island Blazes With The “Running Of The Red Crabs”!

It’s The “Running Of The Red Crabs!”

It’s that time of year again – one of nature’s most fascinating displays. As The Guardian reported:


“Tens of millions of red crabs migrate every year in Australia’s Christmas Island. They crawl across from the forest to the coast in a journey that starts with the first rainfall of the wet season.”

As you can see, they are expected: roads are closed so the crabs can cross specially built roads and bridges to the water.

What a sight!

Here is a video that captures it:

Always terrific reporting by The Guardian – it reminds me of a wild moment I had in Cabo:

It was a feeding frenzy – click on my story to find out why these fish were so hungry:

I also followed some sandpipers as they worked a beach on the California coast as well:

Check out more of the wildlife by clicking on my story here:

On a more humorous note – have you ever seen the “Running of the Rainiers?”

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Let me know if you’ve ever seen this crab migration!



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  1. Hi John, this is so interesting to watch. I don’t think I’d want to lie down among them, but walking would be okay.

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  2. This is fascinating! How do they know? That’s the million dollar question for many animals. How does a spider know how to make a web, and how does a bird know how to make a nest?

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  3. This was new to me. The Running of the Rainiers made me think of the Sausage Races at Milwaukee Brewers’ baseball games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ_3uwAudwA

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  4. Animals have a different intelligence or instinct we can’t even begin to understand. The crabs don’t have much of a family life, but being abandoned doesn’t seem to stop the tough surviving babies succeeding on their path in life!

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  5. Wow! That is so cool! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

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  6. I would so love to see this!

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  7. The red crab migration was famously covered in a BBC nature documentary some years ago. It was amazing to see them indeed.

    Best wishes, Pete.

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