Laidre travels to Costa Rica to study hermit crabs, a species called Coenobita compressus.

莱德瑞前往哥斯达黎加研究居蟹，这是一种学名为Coenobita compressus的物种。

A hermit crab who has put on a little weight needs more spacious accommodations.

一只长大了点的居蟹需要更宽敞的房子。

It's intriguing to think that this hypothesis might have greater generality beyond hermit crabs.

“这个假说的适用范围可能更具普遍性，远远不只居蟹，这相当有趣。”

We Ricks travel the infinite and switch places with each other like hermit crabs, I think.

我们瑞克们在无穷时空旅行，彼此交换位置，我想生蟹一样。

But like a hermit crab encountering a humdrum shell, Laidre says he's gonna leave that one alone.

但是遇到无趣螺壳的居蟹一样，莱德瑞说他打算把这个研究题目放在一边。

Hermit crabs are using it as shells.

居蟹用它当壳。

Hermit crabs wear seashells to protect their soft bodies from predators.

居蟹佩戴贝壳来保护自己柔软的身体免受掠食者的伤害。

Chris  regularly presents at Mary's annual hermit crab conference—CrabCon.

克里斯定期出席玛丽的年度居蟹会议——CrabCon。

And I brought you over a hermit crab as a house warming present.

我给你带来了一只居蟹作为乔迁礼物。

They found pictures of hermit crabs wearing trash.

他们发现了居蟹穿着垃圾的照片。

He even started up  a few projects in his lab inspired by Mary's online hermit crab society.

受玛丽在线居蟹协会的启发，他甚至在实验室启动了一些项目。

So Mary went out and bought more hermit crabs.

瑞秋：所以玛丽出去买了更多的居蟹。

Generation after generation of little hermit crabs had been born and had died in this Dragon's ears.

一代又一代的小居蟹在这条龙的耳朵里出生和死亡。

She's bred so many hermit crabs  that now she adopts them out, making sure they go to responsible homes.

她饲养了如此多的居蟹，现在她将它们领养出来，确保它们送到负责任的家庭。

That's  the closest they get to being a land hermit crab before they're a land hermit crab.

这是它们在成为陆地居蟹之前最接近陆地居蟹的一次。

The first time I saw a hermit crab I was 11, spending the weekend  with my grandpa in Atlantic City.

瑞秋：我第一次看到居蟹是在我 11 岁的时候，当时我和爷爷在大西洋城度过了周末。

" A hermit crab in a plastic shell could be an icon of our times, " Jagiello told TIME for Kids.

贾吉洛对《时代》儿童版说：“塑料壳里的居蟹可以成为我们这个时代的标志。”

Now hermit crabs are  elusive creatures.

瑞秋：现在居蟹是难以捉摸的生物。

She says hermit crabs are hard to study, even harder to breed.

她说居蟹很难研究，更难繁殖。

But we don't do that with  hermit crabs.

但是, 我们不会对居蟹这样做。