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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0030_01C86BDD.C05DB410 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Crash: A Tale of Two Species With its armored shell, ancient anatomy, and 350-million-year lineage, = the horseshoe crab almost seems too inconspicuous to stir up = controversy. Yet this humble creature is at the very center of a = collision between three completely different species. For many decades, humans have harvested the horseshoe crab for use as = fishing bait. Since the 1970s, we have also used horseshoe crab blood = for medical purposes. But we may have gone too far. Horseshoe crab = numbers have declined significantly since the early 1990's. And, = naturally, so did their egg numbers. This is especially important to a small shorebird that is a global = traveler of the most impressive kind. The red knot makes one of the = longest migrations of any animal -- a journey that takes it from one end = of the earth to the other. To accomplish this feat, it relies on the = eggs of the horseshoe crab. Without these eggs, the red knot is in = danger. In the film "Crash: A Tale of Two Species," filmmaker Alison Argo tells = the story of nature's amazing ability to create fragile connections = among the most unexpected creatures, and of our potential as humans to = destroy those connections -- or restore them.=20 "Crash: A Tale of Two Species" premieres Sunday, February 10th at 8 p.m. = ET on PBS (check local listings).=20 WGBH/Channel 2 Nature: Crash: A Tale of Two Species Sunday, February 10, 8:00pm The horseshoe crab and the red-knot shorebird. ------=_NextPart_000_0030_01C86BDD.C05DB410 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Crash: A Tale of Two Species</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>With its armored shell, ancient anatomy, and=20 350-million-year lineage, the horseshoe crab almost seems too = inconspicuous to=20 stir up controversy. Yet this humble creature is at the very center of a = collision between three completely different species.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>For many decades, humans have harvested the = horseshoe crab=20 for use as fishing bait. Since the 1970s, we have also used horseshoe = crab blood=20 for medical purposes. But we may have gone too far. Horseshoe crab = numbers have=20 declined significantly since the early 1990's. And, naturally, so did = their egg=20 numbers.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>This is especially important to a small = shorebird that is=20 a global traveler of the most impressive kind. The red knot makes one of = the=20 longest migrations of any animal -- a journey that takes it from one end = of the=20 earth to the other. To accomplish this feat, it relies on the eggs of = the=20 horseshoe crab. Without these eggs, the red knot is in = danger.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>In the film "Crash: A Tale of Two Species," = filmmaker=20 Alison Argo tells the story of nature's amazing ability to create = fragile=20 connections among the most unexpected creatures, and of our potential as = humans=20 to destroy those connections -- or restore them. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>"Crash: A Tale of Two Species" premieres Sunday, = February=20 10th at 8 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>WGBH/Channel 2<BR>Nature: Crash: A Tale of Two=20 Species<BR>Sunday, February 10, 8:00pm<BR>The horseshoe crab and the = red-knot=20 shorebird.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0030_01C86BDD.C05DB410--
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