Yet another reason to cancel that vacation to Australia.

Australia is a land with a whole lot going on — specifically, animal life that really, really wants to kill you. And, even if an animal decides it doesn’t want to end your life with one poisonous sting, it can find other ways to mess your day up. Take, for example, the coconut crab: a giant beast so well known for stealing things that it’s colloquially referred to as the “robber crab.”

Coming in at an incredible nine pounds in weight and a potential of over three feet in length, you would think that you would be unlikely to see such an animal outside of a movie or feverish nightmare. Nope: try to host a picnic in Australia and these boys will promptly make an appearance, as evidenced by this photo series:

A gang of Robber crabs invade a family picnic in Australia.
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According to the Daily Mail, these photos were taken on Australia’s Christmas Island and were originally posted by the island’s tourism board on their Facebook page, because what better way to attract people to visit your island than by showing Boschian terrors roaming its shores?

“They started to climb up to the table, and another climbed onto the barbecue,” said one of the campers present for the invasion. “We kept our tents away from where we had eaten, but one of the families said the whole night they could feel one tapping on the outside of their tent.”

Sounds like fun!

Thankfully, experts insist that coconut crabs are largely harmless and will more than likely leave you alone, though they may snag a few of your possessions before they head out. I think we all can just take their word for it — no need to test their theory ourselves!