Coconut crab next two pairs, as with other hermit crabs, are large, powerful walking legs with pointed tips, which allow coconut crabs to climb vertical or overhanging surfaces. The fourth pair of legs is smaller with tweezer-like chelae at the end, allowing young coconut crabs to grip the inside of a shell or coconut husk to carry for protection; adults use this pair for walking and climbing. The last pair of legs is very small and is used by females to tend their eggs, and by the males in mating. This last pair of legs is usually held inside the carapace, in
Coconut rice of coconut cream. Outside of the mango season, it will also be eaten with other fruits or semi-sweet dishes. Other popular coconut rice desserts are "khao tom mat", where sweet banana is steamed inside sticky rice while wrapped in a banana leaf, "khao lam", where the rice and coconut milk mixture is steamed inside a section of bamboo, and "khao niao kaeo", a very sweet dessert of glutinous rice, coconut milk, and large amounts of sugar, and most often pink or green in color. In India, coconut rice (Tamil: தேங்காய் சாதம்) is famous in the southern regions. In India coconut