ZooWeird, 13

A doggerel series about odd or little-known animals.

The Coconut crab is a terrestrial hermit crab and the sole representative of the Birgus genus. It holds the record for world's largest land-living arthropod. It can be found on many islands across the Indian Ocean as well as parts of the Pacific Ocean. Read more: http://www.strangeanimals.info/2010/10/coconut-crab.html#ixzz4SSt4Gk6V

He didn’t like his name at all—

“A coconut? That’s kind of dumb!”

He muttered only just last fall

While on a beach, just sipping rum.

And so he found the naming guys—

And told them he would like a change.

The naming guys felt some surprise—

A change is tricky to arrange.

But they could see he was annoyed—

And so they changed his name a dab:

They hoped he would now feel more buoyed

With his new name—the Kumquat Krab.