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Christmas Island's annual red crab migration is underway

Every year, red crabs overtake roads and homes as they migrate from their forest dwellings to the sea, where they spawn their eggs

"Everyone here really values the crabs, and [the migration] is seen as a real treat," said Alexia Jankowski, Christmas Island National Park's acting manager

Christmas Island is officially crawling with crabs.

On the Australian territory off the southern coast of Indonesia, this year's red crab migration is underway, per the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Christmas Island National Park . The annual phenomenon sees millions of crimson-red crustaceans clattering across roads from their forest dwellings to the island's shores to spawn their eggs. Usually, the mass migration heav

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