Horseshoe Crab Facts: NOT true CRABS | Animal Fact Files
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- The horseshoe crab is known as a crab, but a horseshoe crab is not a real crab! These animals are also extremely beneficial and have probably saved your life!! Learn more horseshoe crab facts on this episode of Animal Fact FIles!
Scientific Name: Family - Limulidae
Range: Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans
Habitat: Coastal waters
Size: Two feet (60.96cm)
Diet: Worms, molluscs, and dead fish
Threats: Shorebirds, crustaceans, and fish as juveniles; Raccoons, foxes, sea turtles, alligators, and humans as adults
Life span: About 20 years
EDIT: at 3:08 we mentioned there isn't an alternative to LAL however this article discusses an alternative that is available but not widely used: "In 2016, a synthetic alternative to crab lysate, recombinant factor C (rFC), was approved as an alternative in Europe, and a handful of U.S. drug companies also began using it." - www.nationalgeographic.com/an...
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Eric Heupel - • Horseshoe Crab and Juv...
Mike Rafferty - • Horseshoe Crab
SuperInactive - • Horseshoe crab at bell...
Wide Angle - • A Strange sea animal s...
dawn dexter - • Horseshoe crab - Rescued!
Rusty Clark - • Horseshoe crab - Rescued!
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Fun fact: Horseshoe crabs are not actually crabs; neither are they horseshoes
They looked pretty much like they do now 200 million years before dinosaurs. The design is perfect for their lifestyle. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I don't know what surprises me more: Kabuto is real, or that Kabuto is still alive.
I fell in love with them the moment I let one rest on my hand when I was young. It was on a field trip to a marine wildlife convention or something, I forget what but it had alot of shell fish and other marine related stuff. One of the people had various different shelled fish and one of them was the crab. He showed us their biology and even allowed us to hold it, I was the first one to hold it and it felt like a moving brush. After that they were my new favorite animal. They're just cool
Remember, kids, if you see an ocean roomba on it's back at the beach, just flip 'em!
Crazy how a species that's been around for millions of hears is suddenly classified as vulnerable
Thanks for this video! As a child, I saw a documentary on Horseshoe Crabs and have indeed seen one flip itself to right-side-up with its tail, though I'd forgotten much of the other information you have mentioned. They are fascinating creatures, and I love anything related to dinosaurs and the prehistoric! Keep up the great work! ^^
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I love how they always look angry
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To me it sounds a bit counter-productive to go out of one's way to catch a crab, just to harvest blood and then release it, even more counter-productive if it affects their overall population negatively.
Always thought it was cool how this species has existed for so long, despite being freaky looking under that shell(and one pinched me hard once at an aquarium when I let it on my hand)
I love watching these guys come up to the shoreline to lay eggs. There so cool looking. Love watching tyem.
Many years ago, I went canoeing in a creek across the street from marine park in Brooklyn, and the shoreline was covered, blanketed with horseshoe crabs. I never seen anything like that. The creek is now a wildlife preserve, but I have to believe what I saw is an annual occurrence at that location. The sand was completely covered with them, had to number in the thousands.
Kabuto!
I remember one morning when I was on vacation, I stumbled upon a large population center of Atlantic Horseshoe crabs
"I was like a one eye frog or something in the primordial soup" "Lyle the one eyed guy"
I remember doing research on this animal when I was younger.
Horseshoe crabs are so cool! There's so much to learn about animals