05. Horseshoe Crabs - What We Take From the Tide
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05. Horseshoe Crabs - What We Take From the Tide
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In this episode of the Wild Systems Podcast, we travel to the shores of Delaware Bay at the height of spring, where horseshoe crabs — animals whose lineage stretches back 450 million years — haul themselves from the surf to spawn on beaches that have fed an entire ecosystem for millennia. We follow a nesting male through a system shaped by tides, pharmaceutical demand, and a small shorebird that flies nine thousand miles on a diet of crab eggs. Along the way, we explore how overharvest for bait and biomedical bleeding nearly collapsed the bay's web of life, how an Adaptive Resource Management framework is trying to rebuild it, and what it means for one of Earth's oldest living designs to depend, now, on human restraint.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ERPWildSystemsMusic for this episode: https://suno.com/playlist/764e87ab-87ea-42be-b7c3-9e8e678db459Sources, Article, and More: https://erpwild.com/