Tan Horseshoe Crab On Beach - Key Chains, 2.25 x 2.25 inches, set of 2 (kc_35257_1)

everybody it's Jeff Buckland from their true nature center for another science at home video and today I come to you from Sandy Hook which is a beach just a few miles south of New York City as the crow flies and I'm here today to find horseshoe crabs now horseshoe crabs spend most of their adult life out in the ocean the specific species that I'm going to be finding here on the east coast of the United States we don't actually know where they spend most of their adult life just somewhere along the sea bottom in the Atlantic but every year adult horseshoe crabs come ashore in May and June to lay eggs to breed and reproduce and they don't just do this at any time most of them come ashore during the full moon during the the the lunar high tide which is the highest high tide of the month and that allows them to get further up on the beach than they would normally be able to do and that allo