Why haven't we domesticated coconut crabs yet? Are they supposed to be delicious? I want one as a pet.
>>5050664>Are they supposed to be delicious?Anything is delicious if you drown it in enough drawn butter
>>5050664They're delicious if you feed them exclusively delicious food, but they take 3-6x longer to grow for meat than cattle.
>>5050666This but truffle oil and a fryer
>>5050669>they take 3-6x longer to grow for meat than cattle.Yeah but thats because we bred our cattle to grow faster. The auroch took longer to reach maturity than modern cows.
>>5050664>Why haven't we domesticated coconut crabs yet?Nothing is stopping you anon.Anyone with access to them can to it right now. Pretty sure I've heard of someone already doing it by supergluing a rope to their shells in their yard.>>5050664>but they take 3-6x longer to grow for meat than cattle.Exactly, and they don't convert grass into meat.They could possibly convert shitty scraps into meat like pigs but that's it.>>5050664>The auroch took longer to reach maturity than modern cows.true.
>>5050664because domestication requires breeding, breeding require rearing, and rearing a pelagic animal is not easy
>>5050828>They could possibly convert shitty scraps into meat like pigs but that's it.Pigs don't taste like their food though.That's the thing that makes coconut crabs hit or miss. If they've eaten just coconut, they're buttery and amazing. If they've eaten a rat or a corpse, they taste horrible. And if they eat sea mango, they're poisonous.Breeding coconut crabs would need high quality food to preserve their flavor. But I suppose they might need less food per pound than a mammal.
>>5050851Sounds perfect for an island where you're sick of eating coconuts 24/7.
>>5050855>sick of eating coconut 24/7>forces crabs to eat them 24/7
Would tortoises be a good meat animal? They seem more hardy than mammals and birds.
>>5050917>Anon is the only human in the world with the brain of a crab.
>>5050922Almost all tortoises take significantly longer than 5 years to reach sexual maturity.I mean, they lay a large number of eggs, so that could overcome the slow reproduction? maybe?
>>5050922unless youre on a sailor on the ocean in the 1400s, no, cattle are just better
>>5050664didn't they ate Amelia Earhart?
>>5051158it's been proven a million times we didnt do that
>>5050664How do these taste compared to ither crabs like dungeness, snow, king, stone, etc.
>>5050837they aren't a pelagic animal
>>5051189they spend their entire larval stages in the ocean before migrating to land
>>5051158don't spread unsubstantiated rumors
>>5051353Well they almost certainly did eat her DEAD body. They didn't necessary kill her though.
>>5051377Dude, they climb up trees to rip apart sleeping birds. I'm sure they'd have no problem dragging Amelia's broken body out of the cockpit and eating her alive.
>>5051413Flying birds weigh substantially less than people anon.
>>5051413next thing youll tell me is that they stole the plane because we never found it
>>5051424Sasquatch got to it first.
>>5050664Why the hell would want these finger/penis choppers as a pet?
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>>5050664>Why haven't we domesticated coconut crabs yet?They're too hard to breed in captivity.
>>5050666Depends on how much butter is required. I still wonder how tasty they are, compared to lobster or Alaskan king crab, which happen to be impossible to domesticate at any expense.
>>5051623because we are men, only faggots like cats or dogs
>>5051774Also I suppose a similar principle goes when it comes to mushrooms.
>>5051778If I had a fuck-you money I would buy some place in the middle of nowhere and do nothing except fuck around and try to cultivate mushrooms that traditionally haven't been able to be cultivated.
