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

只长大了点的寄居蟹需要更宽敞的房子。

Then I started exploring the coastal forest that night and I started finding a bunch of hermit crabs adapting with plastic.

然后那天晚上我开始探索海岸森林，发现大堆寄居蟹正在容身于塑料制品中。

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的寄居蟹样，莱德瑞说他打算把这个研究题目放在。

So what people can do to support hermit crabs is first, avoid collecting shells that have spirals for the hermit crabs to live in.

所人们可做些什么来支持寄居蟹呢？首先，不要捡走那些有螺旋结构、可供寄居蟹居住的贝壳。

The renovation renders the shells more precious to their owners-and to other covetous crustaceans as well.

这种改造让寄居蟹更加珍惜自己的螺壳，而其它贪婪的甲壳类动物也会垂涎这样的螺壳。

So I offer hermit crabs available shells in trade of plastic that they're using.

所我向寄居蟹提供贝壳，来替换它们正在使用的塑料。

At the same time, species that got their shells off-the-shelf had bigger gear than did crabs that walked around with no shell at all.

同时，生活在普通房屋的寄居蟹，其拥有的性器官比无房可住的寄居蟹要大。

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蟹，这是种名为Coenobita compressus的物种。

And obviously, plastic have chemicals in there, right, that can leach into the sensitive part of the hermit crab, which is the abdomen.

而且很明显，塑料含有化物质，对吧，这些化物质会渗入寄居蟹的敏感部位，即它的腹部。

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，远远不只寄居蟹，这相有趣。”

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

而且我给你带了只寄居蟹作为乔迁礼物。

February's study found at least 386 crabs wearing garbage.

二月的研究发现至少有386只寄居蟹穿着垃圾。

For this study, researchers looked at photos of hermit crabs that people had posted online.

在这项研究中，研究人员查看了人们在网上发布的寄居蟹照片。

Virtually every single hermit crab you've ever seen has been  stolen from its home in this way, and that's because no one has figured out  how to mass-breed hermit crabs in captivity, not even biologist Chris Tudge.

瑞秋：事实上，你见过的每只寄居蟹都这种方式被从家中偷走，这是因为没有人知道如何在圈养条件下大规模繁殖寄居蟹，甚至连生物家克里斯·塔奇也不知道。

And in the background, if you can see that blue little bottle cap, at the time that I found it, it was actually the home to this little hermit crab.

而在背景中， 如果你能看到那个蓝色的小瓶盖，时我找到它时， 实际上里面住着只小寄居蟹。

To test his " private parts for private property" hypothesis, Laidre sized up more than 300 male museum specimens, including hermit crabs that live on land and at sea.

为了验证他的“私有财产的私处”假说，莱德尔对 300 多个雄性博物馆标本进行了估测， 其中包括生活在陆地和海洋中的寄居蟹。

Tests on hermit crabs show that they'll leave an undesirable shell if they're zapped with electricity, but stay if it's a good shell.

对寄居蟹的实验表明， 若对其施电击， 它们会放弃不理想的壳；但若是好壳， 它们则会留下。

I'm thinking the answer to the question is no, a turtle can't come out of its shell the way a hermit crab can.

我认为答案是否定的，乌龟不能像寄居蟹那样从它的壳里出来。

Like I would be like trying to charm hermit crabs into figuring out how to build a fire and like it wouldn't work.

就像我试图哄骗寄居蟹会生火样，根本行不通。

Human reminds me of those hermit crabs who put their crap on their head or just hermit crabs in general.

人类让我想起那些把垃圾顶在头上的寄居蟹，或者就是寄居蟹本身。