{"id":10405,"date":"2012-04-16T21:05:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T02:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=10405"},"modified":"2012-04-16T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T02:22:22","slug":"horseshoe-crabs-horsing-around-on-cape-cod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=10405","title":{"rendered":"Horseshoe Crabs Horsing Around on Cape Cod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hsc-extra-000-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10407\" title=\"hsc extra 000 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hsc-extra-000-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hsc-extra-000-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hsc-extra-000-480-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>Horseshoe Crab Pair off Lieutenant Island, South Wellfleet<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s that time of the year again.\u00c2\u00a0 Horseshoe crabs\u00c2\u00a0on the Lieutenant Island tidal flats\u00c2\u00a0have paired up and begun the annual spring mating dance.\u00c2\u00a0 Watch your step as you wade through the water.\u00c2\u00a0 Pairs are burrowed under the sand; they&#8217;re swimming through the water; they&#8217;re crawling along the murky bottom.\u00c2\u00a0 And they&#8217;re always paired up with female in the lead, male clinging on for dear life.\u00c2\u00a0 His objective?\u00c2\u00a0 Be Johnny on the Spot when she decides to release eggs at a high tide coming soon to a beach near you.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KDWtHSxEqSo?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KDWtHSxEqSo?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Horseshoe Crabs Horsing Around on Outer Cape Cod<\/strong><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Turtle Journal walked through the Fresh Brook Run this afternoon, we found pair after pair of horseshoe crabs traversing the channel.\u00c2\u00a0 The only lonelies were a few isolated males cruising the (sand)bars, hoping to find a detached female.\u00c2\u00a0 Viva la difference!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Horseshoe Crab Pair off Lieutenant Island, South Wellfleet It&#8217;s that time of the year again.\u00c2\u00a0 Horseshoe crabs\u00c2\u00a0on the Lieutenant Island tidal flats\u00c2\u00a0have paired up and begun the annual spring mating dance.\u00c2\u00a0 Watch your step as you wade through the water.\u00c2\u00a0 Pairs are burrowed under the sand; they&#8217;re swimming through the water; they&#8217;re crawling along the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[824],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10405"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10421,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions\/10421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}