Which animal blue blood? Bashny.Net

This photograph shows the process of drawing blood from a real animal in a medical laboratory USA. Immediately and it is not clear exactly what the doctors are trying to squeeze out of this animal, because blood is bright blue. It also reported that no harm to the animal, this process is not harmful.





Horseshoe crab, - a sort of crab living in the shallow waters of the seas of Japan and the United States. And the blood of his blue because it contains no iron, like all of us, and copper. Copper oxide and gives the blood of horseshoe crabs bluish tint. Horseshoe crab blood is used for medical purposes, of it makes reagent to test the purity of medicines: if the drug is contaminated with micro-organisms or products of their activity, blood clots.

In a typical horseshoe crab habitat looks like: