A professor of biology, studying the horseshoe crabs discovered something very interesting. Their metabolism has a measurable and adaptable rhythm.
Horseshoe crabs live in shallow tidal pools along the Atlantic Ocean. When the tide comes in, they feed. When the tide is out, they rest. As one might expect, their metabolic rates spike at the time of high tide, and they are quiet when the tide ebbs. The metabolic rhythm remains constant even when the crabs are captured and placed in laboratory aquariums.
The professor doing this study moved from the East Coast to Chicago. Naturally, he brought his experimental crustaceans with him. Remarkably, he discovered that the rhythm of life for those horseshoe crabs adjusted to the move. In a matter of a few days, their metabolic rates increased at the precise hour that the tide would reach Chicago, if Chicago had a tide!
Even crabs have enough sense to recognize that life requires a rhythm, a certain regularity, and when one’s circumstances change, one must adjust. It is the rule of nature that everyone still needs a time for work and a time for rest.
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