I've seen one of these in New Caledonia. My host caught it (VERY carefully), and put it in a steel saucepan with the lid held down with heavy bricks. It released itself over night. A crab to respect...

"We think what happened is that the cats sort of domesticated themselves," Carlos Driscoll, one of the study authors, told the Washington Post. The cats invited themselves in, and over time, as people favored cats with more docile traits, certain cats adapted to this new environment, producing the dozens of breeds of house cats known today.