The Quiz: What type of animal migrates in a swarm on Australia’s Christmas Island?
Red crabs
Flying fox
Shrew
Giant gecko
About 120 million Christmas Island red crabs live on this small Australian island and nowhere else in the world. During the dry season, the crabs feed on the island’s rainforest floor and stay in the shade or in burrows to ward off dehydration. But in anticipation of the wet season, the red crabs swarm from the forest to their seaside breeding grounds, covering the land in between with a moving carpet of red crabs.
The correct answer to this quiz is Red crabs.