Ghost Crabs are very interesting animals. They eat clams, crabs, and young birds. They reproduce by laying eggs. Their family is in the ghost and fiddler crab collection. They are 1 3/4 inches tall and 2 inches wide. They live in North and South America. Also they live in Bermuda.

Ghost Crabs must keep their gills wet in order to breathe. Younger cabs keep their holes near the water. Older crabs keep their holes farther away from the water. When the sun sets on a warm summer evenings. They pop up out of their holes. Before the sun goes down they go back in their holes.

Ghost Crabs make 3 different kinds of noises. 1,they rap when something disturbs them. 2,they rasp when other crabs enter their burrows. 3,they bubble when they are sitting in their holes undisturbed.

Ghost crabs are mostly bottom dwellers. Bottom dweller means they dwell at the bottom of the sea.

Ghost crabs look like white crabs with brownish spots. They have segmented bodies and also they are double jointed. They have 5 walking legs. They only leave their burrows for food and they spend most of their life on land.

Another interesting fact about the ghost crab is that they have exoskeletons like insects. An exoskeleton is when you have your skeleton on the outside of your body. Ghost crabs also must shed their skin once they outgrow it. Ghost crabs only feed at night, and they burrow in the daytime.

Here’s something I bet you didn’t know--they also eat sea turtle eggs, newly hatched sea turtles, insects, and small fish. The large food they kill they have to take back to their burrows in the sand.

Ghost crabs run across the water with their eggs on their tail and they lay their eggs in the water.