Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Assateague Island National Seashore

My friends and I also visited the Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland.  It is one of the few places in the United State where you can see wild horses.  We saw many of them.  They were beautiful.


Interactions of wind, ocean waves, and the Island make life on this coast very dynamic and hard to adapt to, as the plants and animals on this shape-changing and dynamic Island can do.  Here is the list of animals and wild life on this Island, including the horseshoe crab.
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Did You Know?
...that horseshoe crabs may save your life? A protein in their blood is used to test injectable drugs for bacterial contamination. " [2]

[1] http://www.nps.gov/asis/naturescience/index.htm
[2] http://www.nps.gov/asis/naturescience/animals.htm

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