Central Park West, NYC, USA, January 21, 2018

The Catskills_NY_USA_Dec. 2017/ Jan. 2018

Grass in the morning 2017

Fall in New York 2017_New York Botanical Garden

Central Park_October 14th, 2017_New York City, USA

Horseshoe Crab_September 2017, Coney Island, NYC, Brooklyn, USA

Today I took a subway to Coney Island (Brooklyn, NYC) and I was swimming in the Atlantic Ocean! :-) In the evening, just before the sunset, I noticed a horseshoe crab on the shore. First of all, the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is not a crab! It is more related to spiders and scorpions, and it is a relative of trilobite. The horseshoe crab have been on the planet for 450 million years, and it is known as a living fossil. Interestingly, blood of horseshoe crabs can be used to detect bacterial poisoning in humans. Intriguingly, horseshoe crab has 10 eyes and it is a known model organism for vision research. Horseshoe crabs are mating in May and June, I am already excited about it! hopefully I can record their mating behaviours! ;)

NY Botanical Garden, August 2017, NYC, Bronx, USA