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Watch the Christmas Island red crab migration · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: N not. It's a question that must s.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that during the middle of the day, when it's
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  Speaker 2: hot and the sun's out, they're kind of just seeking shade.
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  Speaker 2: But during early morning and during the late afternoon they
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  Speaker 2: kind of en mass come out and just are marching
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  Speaker 2: basically slowly across the landscapes, over the roads, through gardens
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  Speaker 2: all the way down to the coast. So some people
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  Speaker 2: might think they're a nuisance, but most of us think
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  Speaker 2: they are a bit of a privilege to experience. They're indiscriminate,
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  Speaker 2: so whatever they need to go over to get to
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  Speaker 2: the shore, they will go over it. So if you
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  Speaker 2: leave your front door open, you're going to come home
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  Speaker 2: and have a whole bunch of red crabs in your
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  Speaker 2: living room. So we do have to think about the
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  Speaker 2: way we kind of live during that time. Sometimes some people,
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  Speaker 2: if they need to drive their car out of the
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  Speaker 2: driveway in the morning, they've got to rake them themselves
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  Speaker 2: out or they're not going to be able to leave
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  Speaker 2: the house without injuring crabs. So yes, they do change
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  Speaker 2: the way we live during this time. We just have
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  Speaker 2: to be very mindful of that. We really value the
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  Speaker 2: crabs and it's one of the privileges of living on
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  Speaker 2: the island is that when it's crab season, we all
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  Speaker 2: do our best to try and reduce impacts to crabs
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  Speaker 2: on the road. So the park staff who I work for,
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  Speaker 2: we actually spend a lot of our time early in
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  Speaker 2: the morning and late in the afternoon after work raking
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  Speaker 2: the busiest roads to allow cars to go through so
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  Speaker 2: that we don't impact crabs too much. And also lots
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  Speaker 2: of community members and local businesses did the same, which
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  Speaker 2: is fantastic. I'll make us a question when their little
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  Speaker 2: baby's only about half the size of your fingernail. We
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  Speaker 2: can't rake them because you crush them, so instead we
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  Speaker 2: use leaf blowers. So in about a month after the
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  Speaker 2: spawning occurs, we're down on the coast looking pretty hilarious,
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  Speaker 2: actually wearing these backpack leaf blowers and blowing all these
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  Speaker 2: tiny little crabs off the road to try and reduce
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  Speaker 2: an impact of cars.
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  Speaker 1: You coming in with a brush. It understands here, but
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  Speaker 1: as you can see, there's no stopping these little red
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  Speaker 1: crabs everywhere. They are everywhere. I'm not jagging about the
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  Speaker 1: uh around here. Just don't step in the little guys.
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  Speaker 1: But they are everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: He loned a guy.
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  Speaker 1: M h m. It is something different cos