People on Christmas Island using gardening tools to help migrating crabs

Tens of millions of red crabs are making their way to the ocean as part of their annual migration on Christmas Island, where a much smaller human population uses leaf blowers and garden rakes to help them on their way, Euronews writes.

The publication notes that the red crabs make their way from their forest burrows to the shoreline where they breed.

As noted, the crabs’ “human neighbors” use leaf blowers and garden rakes to carefully remove them from roads or obstacles and help them reach the sea without being crushed by cars or trapped along the way.

Christmas Island National Park acting manager Alexia Jankowski said Thursday there were up to 200 million of the endemic crabs, also known as Gecarcoidea natalis, on the tiny Australian island territory in the Indian Ocean.