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Red crabs migrate once a year during the wet season.Red crabs overtake Christmas Island

Wednesday, 3 November 2010 [an error occurred while processing this directive] commentsArticle has audioArticle has photo slideshow
Australian nature Each year as soon as the wet season rains start, Christmas Island's red crabs race to meet their partner before the new moon rises.
Subjects: animals, animal-behaviour, invertebrates, scribblygum Locations: christmas-island-6798

Ship-jumping black rats brought a protozoan to Christmas Island, which wiped out two native rat species in less than ten years Christmas Island rats wiped out by disease

Thursday, 6 November 2008
A new study has concluded that native rats found on Australia's Christmas Island more than 100 years ago, fell prey to "hyperdisease conditions" caused by a pathogen that led to its extinction.
Subjects: endangered-and-protected-species, animals, ecology, mammals Locations: christmas-island-6798

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