And it's not just about weather, tides and population, it's about spying.

不仅仅是观测天气、潮汐和人口，而是间谍活动。

And as the world's oceans become more polluted and acidic, the crab finding gives Pope and other scientists a cognitive skill to test—to see how crabs and other undersea invertebrates might weather a changing tide.

随着世界海洋变得更加污染和酸化，螃蟹的发现为波普和其他科学家提供了一种认知技能来测试——看看螃蟹和其他海底无脊椎动物如何经受住不断变化的潮汐。