The horseshoe crab is also known as "the bottom of the jail through the beast", why is it in China is a protected animal, but in Thailand can be eaten casually? Horseshoe crabs are a kind of crustacean that looks like a crab, so it is also known as horseshoe crab. Friends who grew up on the beach should not be unfamiliar with him, every year from April to August, just after the breeding season, as long as the evening to the beach, you can see a large number of get together to dig a pit to lay eggs. Tourists who are not familiar with it may be startled, because after the look and alien creatures similar, they carry the shell of the back garden or a long thin rat tail, with six pairs of abdominal limbs after the crawling speed, a blink of an eye they may be gone. I have to say, don't look after the strange-looking, in fact, humans are the oldest batch of creatures on earth, and horseshoe crabs and horseshoe crabs with the same period of animals either all changed their faces, or disappeared, only it lives to the present. So horseshoe crabs are also known by scientists as the Earth's living fossil.

It is understood that the horseshoe crab's blood is blue, scientists extracted from his blood to a substance, the substance like a detective, can quickly detect whether the human tissue contains bacteria, and can even detect drugs, food is infected by toxins. Later, scientists made the substance into a testing solution and named it horseshoe crab reagent. Needless to say, this invention was a great help to human scientific research, but it was the end of the horseshoe crab family. After people frantically catching wild ones and then sending them to labs to have their blood drawn, it was only when people came back to their senses that they realized the number of horseshoe crabs had fallen off a cliff, and while there used to be a bunch of them on the beaches, two or three would be good enough now. That's when people realized that horseshoe crabs seemed to be becoming endangered. So people began to take remedial measures to try to save the members of the Hou family. Nowadays, China has put the Chinese hind into the second class of national protected animals, and the proto-tailed hind and the southern hind into the provincial key protected animals. From this, we can see that China's protection of the queen is very strong.

But it's not illegal to eat them in Thailand, where they are often roasted, fried and tossed, which makes people wonder if they can really eat them. Why not protect the horseshoe crab? First of all, we have to remind you why horseshoe crabs can survive for so long? First, its ability to reproduce is not bad, and second, its meat is terrible and poisonous. Horseshoe crab meat contains a non-specific protein sensitizing substance, which makes it easy for people to suffer from allergies, poisoning and shock after eating it. People with poor physique may endanger their lives after consuming the thick meat. So when traveling to Thailand, try not to be curious and order the roadside to eat, in case something happens, the consequences are unimaginable. Thai people think that horseshoe crabs are also considered a kind of seafood, so the locals often bake and eat, mixing its meat and eggs together to eat, it is said that the taste is very much like crab meat, but the thick meat fishy flavor is relatively heavy, do not often eat people generally can not accept. But the locals are used to eating it, so they do from time to time.