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08-14-2011, 08:44 AM | #1 | |||
I wonder . . .
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August 14, 2011 Milking Horse Shoe Crabs
Here is a beautiful example of man utilizing nature in a way that does not destroy. I only wish this were the norm.
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08-14-2011, 08:49 AM | #2 |
I wonder . . .
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I have to admit this image totally grosses me out. It is all I could do to create the post with my gut in a clench to avoid tossing . . .
I guess it is just seeing these creatures clamped down with a tube draining blue liquid. It is a bit too alien for me. It's just kinda creepy. Or it is what humans tend to fear aliens will do to us. Whatever it is, the image is just too much for me, even though the whole practice seems so noble and harm-free. And just how in the world did someone discover this in the first place? Do scientists just randomly go around playing with the blood of creatures to see what it will do?
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08-14-2011, 09:04 AM | #3 |
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We have a small island near my home that is covered with Horse shoe crabs.
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08-14-2011, 11:22 AM | #4 |
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Looks like Blue Smoothie time at the Darth Vader factory.
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08-15-2011, 02:25 PM | #5 |
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Tough little things. Folded in half until its dorsal joint cracks open, drained of a fifth of their blood through that wound, and only a 15% mortality rate.
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08-15-2011, 06:50 PM | #6 |
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15% mortality is only an approximation, but it's close enough in horse shoes.
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08-15-2011, 09:53 PM | #7 |
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08-15-2011, 09:54 PM | #8 |
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again: 15% of them DIE.
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08-15-2011, 10:07 PM | #9 |
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What percentage of humans die without the microbial screening? It's not like they're torturing them for their all-natural aphrodisiac and penis-enlargement properties.
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08-15-2011, 10:32 PM | #10 |
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This is 20% ... ???
Nearly a whole bottle that is half the size of the poor bastard's entire body? You ever had blood drawn and they bring out a 55 gallon drum?
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08-15-2011, 10:48 PM | #11 |
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Where is the butter?
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08-16-2011, 07:45 AM | #12 |
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To rephrase: . . . in a way that does not wipe out the horse shoe crab population.
Unlike the practice of harvesting shark fins where the fins are cut off and the shark thrown back into the water to die. 85% of the horse shoe crabs get returned to the ocean to live another day. Plus, I think it is great that they are using crabs from the ocean and not creating an industry of raising them in captivity.
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Well over 85% of the shark is returned to the ocean... oh, wait- "to live another day". Never mind.
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08-16-2011, 11:11 AM | #15 |
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