Giant coconut crab
The giant crab popularly known around the area as "robber crabs", can live for 70 years and grow up to one metre long and feast on the dead bodies of their own kind.
Mark Pierrot a tourist visiting the Christmas Island was brave as he grabs the world's biggest crab and takes pictures with the crab.
The monstrous beast, also known as a robber crab, is one of thousands on the island that can grow up to a staggering one metre in length.
They have been known to eat rats, tortoises and other small animals as well as savage the bodies of their own dead.
The picture of Mr Pierrot was posted on the Christmas Island Tourism Association Facebook page and became an instant viral hit.
Posted with the caption: "That's not a crab - THIS IS A CRAB", in a nod to the 1980s hit film Crocodile Dundee, social network users focused on the picture as they post their comments although most told how they wanted to EAT the giant crustacean.
The association said: "One of the reasons Christmas Island has the largest robber crab population remaining on the planet is because our crabs are protected.
"Did you know that these crabs can live to be 70 years old?"
It later added: "This crab was not captured for food, it was for a picture only. It is illegal to eat coconut crabs on Christmas Island and is a $5,500 (£2,700) fine for doing so - we protect our crabs, we do not eat them." They said.
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