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- Lobsters do not accumulate toxins from the natural phenomenon known as "red tide" which occurs along east coast waters during the summer time.
- They are very high in the amino acids which are the building blocks of proteins and contain the amino acid lysine which is believed to help prevent and control cold-sores
- Just prior to the turn of the century, lobsters were primarily used for fertilizer and thought unfit for human consumption.
- Maine Lobstermen catch about 51% of the nation's annual true total of lobsters.
- The American lobster, when caught, is a mottled dark blue-green color, turning red when cooked.
- The American lobster is found on the East Coast of North America, from Newfoundland to North Carolina.
- There are also rare blue, yellow, red, and white lobsters. Except for the white ones, they all turn red when cooked.
- Lobsters grow by molting (shedding their skin for you city folk), increasing in weight by 25% each time. They molt about 25 times in the first 5 years of life. An older lobster only molts every four or five years. No one has yet found a way to determine the exact age of a lobster because it sheds its shell so often.
- Lobsters "smell" their food by using four small antennae on the front of their heads and tiny sensing hairs that cover their bodies.
- The teeth of a lobster are in its stomach. The stomach is located a very short distance from the mouth, and the food is actually chewed in the stomach between three grinding surfaces that look like molar teeth, called the "gastric mill".
- Lobster blood is usually a gray or slightly blue color, but it can sometimes be orange, green, or light pink.
- A lobster egg is the size of the head of a pin. A 1-pound female lobster usually has between 8,000 to 12,000 eggs that are attached to the underside of her tail. She carries the eggs for about a year until they are released as larvae (about the size of a mosquito). Only about 0.01 percent of those eggs will live past 6 weeks.
- It takes between 4 and 7 years for a lobster to grow to "legal" size, 1 pound.
- A lobster that has lost a claw in a fight is called a "cull" (sometimes called a sissy by his friends).
- Lobster will catch fish, other crustaceans, and mollusks for their food.
- A lobster's age is approximately his weight multiplied by 4, plus 3 years.
- They are bottom feeder, meaning they eat all the dead rotten carcasses and garbage that sits on the bottom of the ocean...thus lobsters are only popular with tourists and exports.
- Lobsters were around before dinosaurs
- It's inside out (exoskeleton).
- It swallows then chews because its teeth are in its stomach.
- It doesn't eat with its big claw becaause it could crush its face if it slipped.
- Its a cannibal
- They grow and regrow any body parts lost by casting off their shell every year.
- Then they eat their own skeleton to get the nutrients they need to grow another shell.
- It has been found that when a lobster is cooled or near frozen and then placed in a pot of hot water it thrashes about for the shortest amount of time.
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