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寄居，这是种学名为Coenobita compressus物种。

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

只长大了点寄居需要更宽敞房子。

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

“这个假用范围可能更具普遍性，远远不只寄居，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，我想就像寄生。

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

但是就像遇到无趣螺壳寄居，莱德瑞他打算把这个研究题目放在边。

Hermit crabs are using it as shells.

寄居用它当壳。

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

寄居佩戴贝壳来保护自己柔软身体免受掠食者伤害。

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

克里斯定期出席玛丽年度寄居会议——CrabCon。

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

我给你带来了只寄居作为乔迁礼物。

They found pictures of hermit crabs wearing trash.

他们发现了寄居穿着垃圾照片。

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

受玛丽在线寄居协会启发，他甚至在实验室启动了些项目。

So Mary went out and bought more hermit crabs.

瑞秋：所以玛丽出去买了更多寄居。

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

代又代小寄居在这条龙耳朵里出生和死亡。

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

她饲养了如此多寄居，现在她将它们领养出来，确保它们送到负责任家庭。

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寄居之前最接近陆地寄居次。

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

瑞秋：我第次看到寄居是在我 11 岁时候，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：“塑料壳里寄居可以成为我们这个时代标志。”

Now hermit crabs are  elusive creatures.

瑞秋：现在寄居是难以捉摸生物。

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

她寄居很难研究，更难繁殖。

But we don't do that with  hermit crabs.

但是, 我们不会对寄居这做。