Mating Horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, at low tide on the salt marsh side of Long Beach in Stratford, Connecticut.

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Mating Horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, at low tide on the salt marsh side of Long Beach in Stratford, Connecticut. This body of water is known as Lewis Gut and is adjacent to the Great Meadows Unit of McKinney National Wildlife Refuge.

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