GIANT JAPANESE CRABS
STAR IN OUR NEW EXHIBITION

Giant Japanese crabs with a one-metre claw-span star in our brand new attraction. These spider crabs, the world’s biggest species, are capable of growing to an amazing three metres across. That’s big enough to straddle the average family saloon.

Flown in from Japan in special crates, the crabs spent a couple of weeks acclimatising in our Marine Hospital quarantine unit before going on display.

Creatures featured in Claws include a lobster and the well known fiddler crab, and amongst the other residents are prehistoric looking horseshoe crabs.

Massive though they are, even the spider crabs will be glad there’s a few feet of glass and walkway between them and another Claws exhibit, the mantis shrimp, the mantis shrimp has a spring-loaded front claw packing a punch equivalent to the impact of a .22 bullet.

Hunstanton SEA LIFE Sanctuary / hunstanton@sealsanctuary.co.uk

GIANT JAPANESE CRABSSTAR IN OUR NEW EXHIBITION

GIANT JAPANESE CRABS
STAR IN OUR NEW EXHIBITION