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  • Birthday 08/28/1997

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    Horseshoe crab are marine arthropods of the family Limulidae and order Xiphosura or Xiphosurida that live primarily in and around shallow ocean waters on soft sandy or muddy bottoms. They occasionally come onto shore to mate. They are commonly used as bait and in fertilizer. In recent years, a decline in the number of individuals has occurred as a consequence of coastal habitat destruction in Japan and overharvesting along the east coast of North America. Tetrodotoxin may be present in the roe of species inhabiting the waters of Thailand.[2] Horseshoe crabs are considered living fossils.[3]
    Horseshoe crabs resemble crustaceans, but belong to a separate subphylum, Chelicerata, and are closely related to arachnids, e.g., spiders and scorpions. The earliest horseshoe crab fossils are found in strata from the late Ordovician period, roughly 450 million years ago.

    The Limulidae are the only recent family of the order Xiphosura, and contain all four living species of horseshoe crab:[1]

    Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, the mangrove horseshoe crab, found in Southeast Asia
    Limulus polyphemus, the Atlantic horseshoe crab, found along the American Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico
    Tachypleus gigas, found in Southeast and East Asia
    Tachypleus tridentatus, found in Southeast and East Asia
    Unlike vertebrates, horseshoe crabs do not have hemoglobin in their blood, but instead use hemocyanin to carry oxygen. Because of the copper present in hemocyanin, their blood is blue. Their blood contains amebocytes, which play a role similar to white blood cells of vertebrates in defending the organism against pathogens. Amebocytes from the blood of L. polyphemus are used to make Limulus amebocyte lysate, which is used for the detection of bacterial endotoxins in medical applications. The blood of horseshoe crabs is harvested from living horseshoe crabs for this purpose.[1]

    Harvesting horseshoe crab blood involves collecting and bleeding the animals, and then releasing them back into the sea. Most of the animals survive the process; mortality is correlated with both the amount of blood extracted from an individual animal, and the stress experienced during handling and transportation.[12] Estimates of mortality rates following blood harvesting vary from 3 to 15%.[13]
    Horseshoe crab are used as bait to fish for eels (mostly in the United States) and whelk. However, fishing horseshoe crab is temporarily forbidden in New Jersey (moratorium on harvesting) and restricted to only males in Delaware. A permanent moratorium is in effect in South Carolina.[14]

    A low horseshoe crab population in Delaware Bay is hypothesized to endanger the future of the red knot. Red knots, long-distance migratory shorebirds, feed on the protein-rich eggs during their stopovers on the beaches of New Jersey and Delaware.[15] An effort is ongoing to develop adaptive-management plans to regulate horseshoe crab harvests in the bay in a way that protects migrating shorebirds.

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  1. People act like certain things don't matter when they really, really do. Such as Representation. Representation matters a lot. Stop acting like its not important because it really is.

    1. -DJ-

      -DJ-

      plus the only ppl acting like it doesnt matter are the ppl Already represented

      either that or theyre just lookin 4 brownie points from their bigoted friends lmao

  2. ..i should probably finish cool bird society some day :0

  3. I think the new sets have just enough in common so you can tell that they're all on the same team while also having each toa feel unique and I like that. Before it felt like all the toa were just slightly different copies of one another and it just got to feel kinda boring. Lego has done a pretty good job with the new designs, in my opinion
  4. 1) Gali 2) Pohatu 3) Onua 4) Lewa 5) Tahu 6) Kopaka
  5. NX09

    Cool Bird Society

    Update #6: pages 45-58 and page 1 of part 2 added end of bird is here stick around for Society II: The Adventure of Bird
  6. "stuffing your face as usual." "I gotta have a good meal." "Garfield you fat cat. You are so big and fat. Why are you so fat?" "I eat, Jon. it's what I do. It's time to kick odie off the table." "dont do it garfielf, that's our pet dog odie." "you're going into orbit, you stupid mutt." "GAAAAARRRFIIIELD!!!" "time for a nap. I'm a cat who loves to snooze" "garfield you lazy cat" "I hate...

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    3. Cambion

      Cambion

      You're such a bad kitty that's it I've had it with you that does it I'm done that's the last straw grarfileld

    4. Dr. Giggles PhD
  7. NX09

    Cool Bird Society

    Update #5: pages 32-44 added we are nearing the end
  8. COOL BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

    1. -DJ-

      -DJ-

      *FUNKY GUITAR MUSIC PLAYS IN BACKGROUND*

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    Cool Bird Society

    Hey surprise! an update! Update # 4 pages 25-31 added Sorry I haven't updated it in so long, I was doing other things and forgetting that this existed!
  10. Im going to revive Cool Bird Society. It will Return.

    1. -DJ-

      -DJ-

      SO THE LEGEND FORETOLD.....

  11. NX09

    Cool Bird Society

    What are you talking about? What bird? Whos a Bird? this comic has absolutely nothing to do with birds????? Im so confused...
  12. NX09

    Cool Bird Society

    Update #3 pages 17-24 added
  13. Boys are icky and gross

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    2. -DJ-

      -DJ-

      *Not All Man bursts thru wall like the koolaid guy* "MAY I PLAY DEVILS ADVOCATE????"

       

    3. JiMing
    4. Dr. Giggles PhD

      Dr. Giggles PhD

      yes

      i hate boys and men

      im a strong woman i dont need a man in my life

  14. NX09

    Cool Bird Society

    there goes dj calling herself hot again
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