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Horseshoe Crab Awareness
11:28AM ON
02/11/2008
BY
Beth Comery
The Providence Journal reports that filmmaker Allison Argo* will be screening her latest film, Crash — a Tale of Two Species, tomorrow night at Wheeler School. Her Emmy-winning documentaries, which have been airing on the PBS series Nature for many years (this one debuted last night), include Chimpanzees; An Unnatural History and The Urban Elephant which brought much attention to the plight of these poor creatures. But now she has focused on one of my personal childhood favorites the horseshoe crab, which can only mean that things are going badly for the horseshoe crabs, I suppose.
free screening/7PM/Tuesday/Wheeler Hall/Wheeler Campus on Hope Street
*Complete disclosure; Allison and I, along with her outrageous sister Liz, used to raise holy hell together. They were a bad influence on me. No wait… other way.
February 11th, 2008 at 11:45AM
bucketeers Says:
I would highly recommend checking this out if you missed it on PBS last night. The film serves as an alarming reminder of how intertwined and interdependent seemingly disparate species in our ecosystem are. In one of my “past lives”, I spent hundreds of hours manning an aquarium touch-tank teaching city kids how gentle these fierce- and otherworldly-looking creatures actually are.
Horseshoe crabs rock.
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February 12th, 2008 at 8:53AM
joe Says:
horshoe crabs,scorpions, cockroaches,and tuataras are ancient life forms that have survived-they’ll probably be here when we’re gone
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September 25th, 2008 at 6:19PM
Home Aquarium Says:
hey, great site keep up the good work
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