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True Facts: Save The Turtle Spiders!

Ze Frank | December 14, 2025



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This is part of a series of conservation fundraisers I’m doing for smaller initiatives that are making an impact. If you have a suggestion for a future episode let me know!

Special thanks to
Meghan Kolk and
& Lisa Ferguson for
taking me around and
teaching me about
these lovely animals.

Thank you for the use
of your images:

Terrie Campbell
Meghan Kolk
Michael Fridmann

Ron Smith
Devin Griffiths
Sandy Anderson

Written by Ze Frank

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  12. @susiemoat265

    December 14, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    This summer a horseshoe crab made a sharp left to investigate my foot. I decided to allow it, and all those deceptively pinchy-looking legs did was cause a very faint brushing sensation across my toes until the creature wandered off. I think I disappointed it.

  14. @joyfullydreaded1371

    December 14, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    I lived in S. Jersey from 1998-2003 and remember the smell quite vividly every time they came out to breed. It was on my bucket list to go witness it but then I had a life changing freak accident that still has me all fucked up and had to move back to my hometown. Thank you for drawing attention to this!

  15. @GwenN.1978

    December 14, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    They're cute, in an odd way ! I grew up playing with 'em when my family (and myself) vacationed many, many times on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. The first time I saw one, I was like 3 yrs old, I thought it was a weird rock, metal, or a piece of trash. Then it moved 😮 , scared the bejezus outta me! So I looked to my dad cus he graduated Oxford a Nuclear Physicist, so he knows everything , in my little mind, and I asked… "Daddy, daddy! How's the rock running away?! Then he showed me, and I liked 'em since then.
    P.S. Them people should do some of them walks up this direction… I don't remember seeing any at Cape Hatteras, (Strip of land with islands off the coast of North Carolina). Maybe wrong season / water temp?
    Oh well, as always , I ♥️ LOVE ♥️ your videos ! And your dry, dry, (getting more sexual, I may add) humor,. Please, keep up the, great way to teach, show, watch, listen and learn lots of stuff !! 😊🎉

  18. @firefox5926

    December 14, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    might also be an idea to at least for say one year in ten go around scareing the bird away /feeding them at laying time … assuming those birds arent also endangered maybe you get a few hundred more horse shoe crabs and a few hundred less birds next year

  20. @Eamonshort1

    December 14, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    Most youtubers take sponsorships from scams like RayCon, Raid Shadow Legends, Better help, Fume ect. But you instead take no sponsor's and comment a link to charity. Never stop being you. Never stop keeping on keeping on, we love you, King!

  21. @Bodthe1st

    December 14, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    I couldn’t believe the first time I saw these on a beach in Florida. My son was extremely lucky to be sent to Key Largo to have Dolphins Therapy. That was amazing in itself, and I was fortunate enough to see these horseshoe crabs too. I had only heard & seen them in books from school. In my head I had made these almost mythical, so to actually see them in their natural habitat was fantastic. I also was in the sea when wild manatees came over to have a look at me. I will never forget my time over there. I am so envious that people get to live in places like that & to be able to see that kind of wildlife on a daily basis. 😊

  23. @CompletelyRandomlyBroken

    December 14, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    I'm glad you finally did a video on them. I fell in love with horseshoe crabs when I was on a school field trip to the Chesapeake Bay as a kid. It was mating season and the water as far as you could see was filled with horseshoe crabs. They are just so fascinating and cool looking. I'd love to go back down for another mating season. But every year, something seems to come up. They are truly amazing animals

  26. @Annoyingdog37

    December 14, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    I have a friend who bought one for his salt water tank from the back room of a salt water fish store in San Diego, it was cool to see it in person, but unfortunately he put it in his predator tank and his eel ate it a few days later.

  31. @csailer2353

    December 14, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    Such neat prehistoric looking creatures. I still remember them being part of a children’s book from my childhood. Don’t remember the book but I think it was just a book for preschoolers to learn words from.

  33. @saucywench9122

    December 14, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    Thank you for this. This is an animal every child is introduced to at aquariums. As leery as I am of them because of their looks they're the most benign sea creature I've ever encountered.

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