Lobster Fact:
A lobster can be hypnotized by rubbing its back. Then you can put its claws out in front of it and make the lobster stand on its head! This also relaxes the lobster before you put it right into the cooking pot!
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Lobster Hypnotism
Lobster Fact:
The freshwater crayfish, crayfish, or crawdad resembles a miniature lobster. Its color may range from pink to orange to dark blue. In the gluttonous days of the ancient Roman Empire, crayfish were kept well fed in large earthenware pots in preparation for royal feasts. The ancient Romans knew then what we have come to […]
Lobster Fact:
Lobsters usually move around and hunt for food at night. It was once thought that lobsters were scavengers, and ate primarily dead things. However, lobsters are really more opportunists, catching mainly fresh food which includes fish, crabs, clams, mussels, sea urchins. Lobsters are also cannibalistic and sometimes will eat other lobsters.
Source: Department of Maine […]
Lobster Fact:
The lobster uses its claws in the feeding process, with the crusher claw being the larger of the two. Appendages near the mouth, called maxillipeds, direct the food to the jaws. The food passes from the mouth to the three-chambered stomach by a short esophagus. In the mid-chamber, the gastric mill, a set of […]
Lobster Fact:
On February 11th 1977, a Nova Scotia fisherman caught the largest lobster ever found. It weighed 44 pounds and 6 ounces and measured 3 feet and 6 inches from tail fan to the tip of the largest claw!
Source: Largest Lobster Ever
Lobster Fact:
Lobsters do not have vocal chords. Since this is true, they do not scream or vocalize when cooked. Any sound you hear could be that of air escaping from the lobster’s body cavity as it expands from heating.
Source: Lobster Men
Lobster Fact Of The Day:
One of the most remarkable phenomena of the lobster is reflex amputation. It will throw off an appendage when stimulated by shock, fear, or injury. In this way, it sometimes does itself serious injury to escape a worse fate. However, it has the power to regenerate, or grow back, a new […]
Lobster Fact:
A lobster molts about seven times the first year, then at a slower rate from that point on. From first stage larva to adult legal size, the lobster has molted between 25 to 27 times. It is estimated that a one-pound lobster may be five to seven years of age. With each molt, a […]
Lobster Fact:
Lobsters may take five to eight years to reach sexual maturity. The female sex organs, called the ovaries or “coral,” are two cylindrical rods traversing from the middle of the body to the tail. The openings from the ovaries to the outside are located on the basal segment of the third walking legs. The […]