← on nowLGR-025 · v0.1.0 · model · count (bled); estimate (deaths) How many horseshoe crabs are killed every second, every day, every year?
horseshoe crabs · Limulus polyphemus · united states
bled for their blue blood
650,000
a year
0.021
a second
1,780
a day
died of it
100,000
a year
3.17e-3
a second
274
a day
method ASMFC 2023 biomedical bleeding counts; mortality from Krisfalusi-Gannon et al. 2018.
- every vaccine and every injectable drug on earth is tested for contamination with an extract of their blood, or, since 2020, with a synthetic copy that most companies still do not use.source: ASMFC 2023; Krisfalusi-Gannon et al. 2018; European Pharmacopoeia 2020
- they are 450 million years old. older than trees.source: methodology note
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how this number is built
- method
- ASMFC 2023 biomedical bleeding counts; mortality from Krisfalusi-Gannon et al. 2018.
- range
- bled 600,000–1,000,000/yr; mortality 10–30%
- confidence
- count (bled); estimate (deaths)
- weakness
- post-release mortality is estimated, not observed.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-025 · corrections are credited
- data
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