http://blogs.bcit.ca/catttrax2/taxonomy/term/128/0 en http://blogs.bcit.ca/catttrax2/node/522 <p align="center"><img class="image preview" src="/catttrax2/sites/blogs.bcit.ca.catttrax2/files/images/DSC_7847.jpg" alt="Sally Lightfoot Crab, Galapagos Islands" title="Sally Lightfoot Crab, Galapagos Islands" width="480" height="322" /><span style="width: 478px" class="caption"><strong>Sally Lightfoot Crab, Galapagos Islands</strong></span></p><p>One of the wildlife species in the Galapagos Island that I found particularly fascinating was the Sally Lightfoot Crab (no relation to Gordon Lightfoot apparently). They are very common and when you are walking along the lava close to shore you need to be careful not to step on them. </p><p align="center"><img class="image preview" src="/catttrax2/sites/blogs.bcit.ca.catttrax2/files/images/DSC_8181.jpg" alt="Sally Lightfoot Crab, Galapagos Islands" title="Sally Lightfoot Crab, Galapagos Islands" width="480" height="322" /><span style="width: 478px" class="caption"><strong>Sally Lightfoot Crab, Galapagos Islands</strong></span></p><p>I was fascinated by their colours and found myself taking dozens of photographs of them as every time I saw them they appeared to give me a different pose highlighting different colours and patterns. I am a bit of a snap-happy photographer to begin with... but these crabs just kept me snapping more and more!</p><p align="center"><img class="image preview" src="/catttrax2/sites/blogs.bcit.ca.catttrax2/files/images/DSC_8063.jpg" alt="Sally Lightfoot Crab, Galapagos Islands" title="Sally Lightfoot Crab, Galapagos Islands" width="480" height="322" /><span style="width: 478px" class="caption"><strong>Sally Lightfoot Crab, Galapagos Islands</strong></span></p><p>The Sally Lightfoot Crab not only has to be on the lookout for the feet of curious human visitors but also for predators such as the various heron species that like to prey on them (Great Blue Heron, Lava Heron, Yellow-crowned Night Heron). I observed and photographed one successful heron ... and one unsuccessful Sally Lightfoot Crab.</p><p align="center"><img class="image preview" src="/catttrax2/sites/blogs.bcit.ca.catttrax2/files/images/DSC_8095.jpg" alt="Lava Heron Preying on Sally Lightfoot Crab" title="Lava Heron Preying on Sally Lightfoot Crab" width="480" height="322" /><span style="width: 478px" class="caption"><strong>Heron Preying on Sally Lightfoot Crab</strong></span></p> http://blogs.bcit.ca/catttrax2/node/522#comment Ecuador Galapagos Islands Galapagos Islands Photography Wildlife Sat, 05 May 2007 17:41:26 -0700 Danny Catt 522 at http://blogs.bcit.ca/catttrax2