strange lobsters

[AniaR]

Some people saw the link I posted earlier about the electric lobster, and now Im finding a whole bunch more!

Here's the video about the electric blue lobster, happens 1 in 2 mil!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle4252810/

Also this lobster showed up in my news feed, owned by the museum,

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• Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic This is Ducker, the spit-back, hermaphrodite lobster that lived in with us in 2003. Our aquarium is still home to many unique looking lobsters from blue and yellow to 'calico'! Come see them all!
  
  
  
  I decided to google and find some more weird lobsters!
  
  
  
  One of the weirdest and rarest kinds of lobster is the Half-and-Half Lobster. It was so named because it looks like the half is cooked and the other half is raw. It was caught in 2006 by a Maine Fisherman. Only 3 lobster of this kind had seen in the last 35 years. The chance of finding one is estimated at 1 in 50 million. Lobster shells are usually a blend of the three primary colors: red, yellow and blue. The colors mix to form the greenish-brown color of most lobsters. All split-colored lobsters observed have been hermaphroditic.
  
  Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/58573...#ixzz1xdP6Coks
  
  
  
  One rare kind of lobster is the Blue Lobster, around one in two million lobsters is blue. It was discovered that a genetic defect causes a blue lobster to produce an excessive amount of protein. The protein and a red carotenoid molecule known as astaxanthin, combine to form a blue complex known as crustacyanin, giving the lobster its blue color.

  
  Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/58573...#ixzz1xdPIZ3Ce
  
  
  
  BOSTON (AP) — So you think blue lobsters are rare? The New England Aquarium is holding a lobster that's way rarer than that.
  
  The aquarium in Boston says it has a calico lobster that could be a 1-in-30 million find.
  The lobster is dark with bright orange and yellow spots. It was caught off Winter Harbor, Maine, and is being held at the New England Aquarium for the Biomes Marine Biology Center, a science center in Rhode Island.
  
  Aquarium spokesman Tony Lacasse says calico lobsters are quite rare.
  The Maine-based Lobster Conservancy says perhaps one lobster in 1 million is blue, while both the orange and calico versions might be as rare as 1 in 30 million.

  
  Read more: http://color-city.blogspot.com/2012/...#ixzz1xdPXu5V1
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

[Princess Kae-Leah]

Oh wow, I love lobsters so much. They're such unique and fascinating animals, it's such a shame humankind feels the need to kill the poor guts so often!

[Winged Mermaid]

That is so cool! The half and half lobster is trippy! Love the color of the blue lobster!

[Kanti]

Aww I love the calico one!
Still, I think the blue one is the prettiest one~
The half and half one blows my mind. I wonder how that happened??

[Mermaid Lorelei]

That half and half coloring actually appears in humans too. I'm trying to find the image...

[Mermaid Lorelei]

I can't seem to find it, but I did find a case of half and half in an apple.

[Ayla of Duluth]

That half and half coloring actually appears in humans too. I'm trying to find the image...

I turn half and half when I get warm. :3 some sort of strange syndrome that I can't find a specific name for.

[Mermaid Lorelei]

Ah, finally found it. It's not so neatly cut down the middle, but it is still a mix of two completely different colors.



(My apologies about the bum...)

Anyways, in this case, it's a genetic anomoly known as Chimerism. This person is literaly composed of two seperate human beings. It's a case in which two seperate embryos were fertilized and ended up joining together in the womb to create one person. It's very interesting stuff. They basically have two different sets of genetic information.

[babsannee]

It's an arnold palmer lobster.

[Mermaid Sirena]

That is amazing, I think it would be epic to have that kind of coloration naturally. Super pretty and unique.

Ah, finally found it. It's not so neatly cut down the middle, but it is still a mix of two completely different colors.



(My apologies about the bum...)

Anyways, in this case, it's a genetic anomoly known as Chimerism. This person is literaly composed of two seperate human beings. It's a case in which two seperate embryos were fertilized and ended up joining together in the womb to create one person. It's very interesting stuff. They basically have two different sets of genetic information.

[michellerobison]

I heard about the blue lobster on the news. I feel sorry fro lobsters, boiled alive, that's sick!
Electric lobster, sounds like a cool name for a band!

[Ayla of Duluth]

Is there really a humane way of killing such a tough creature? I was on YouTube, I saw a girl boil the lobster vs a Japanese man who cut the whole thing in half from head to tail and it was still moving. If you can do that to a lobster with it still living, it seems like boiling is much quicker. The lobster probably goes into shock and doesn't feel a thing after that, but to be cut in half would be super slow and painful. I dunno.

Also that person looks like a mocha latte. :3

[Princess Kae-Leah]

Actually, I read somewhere that lobsters' nervous system is different from most animals as it does not go into shock, it feels itself being boiled. Lobsters are in my personal opinion among the most cruelly treated food animals.

[Kanti]

It's an arnold palmer lobster.

xDDDD

[Kanti]

Actually, I read somewhere that lobsters' nervous system is different from most animals as it does not go into shock, it feels itself being boiled. Lobsters are in my personal opinion among the most cruelly treated food animals.

Wow that's really depressing D:
I wonder why people boil them alive in the first place? It doesn't seem so hard to just try and at least kill it before
you stick it in the pot.

[Kanti]

Ah, finally found it. It's not so neatly cut down the middle, but it is still a mix of two completely different colors.



(My apologies about the bum...)

Anyways, in this case, it's a genetic anomoly known as Chimerism. This person is literaly composed of two seperate human beings. It's a case in which two seperate embryos were fertilized and ended up joining together in the womb to create one person. It's very interesting stuff. They basically have two different sets of genetic information.

Holy jesus that's crazy!
It sort of looks like a marble cake person xD
I would have loved to have a skin color like that @__@

[Princess Kae-Leah]

Yeah, I know, right, Kanti? I think they should slaughter them BEFORE they sell their meat or not catch them alive, just like any other food animal. The methods for capturing, killing, and preparing lobsters and crabs are so different than the way even most other seafood is marketed. But I gotta say though, sorry if I highjacked this thread, or others. My stance on seafood is so important to me that it's like a gut reaction much of the time to bring up my beliefs when certain topic comes up, even if that's not really the angle the OP was going for. I think I come off as a really aggressive person online, when I'm actually just really enthusiastic and chattery.

[Ayla of Duluth]

Wow that's really depressing D:
I wonder why people boil them alive in the first place? It doesn't seem so hard to just try and at least kill it before
you stick it in the pot.

That brings me back to m question; just how do you humanely kill a lobster? Cut it in half and it still moves around, boil it and it's cruel. I suppose you could euthanize it, but I don't think that would be safe to eat anymore.

[Kanti]

It's fine, KL, I'm like that with Bluefin tuna x__x I always ask people not to eat it because of how critically
endangered it is but they end up thinking I'm annoying haha. Either way..

@ Ayla (ohhh name change! lol) - Yea it would be tough. I think people don't really care to go through the effort
even if a stab to the head would do it. I do feel bad about the whole boiling alive but as I've said before, stuff like
that sorta happens a lot in nature. Animals don't really make sure their prey is dead before they start eating it,
so in the end I think boiling it alive may kill it a lot quicker than if it were to get chased, tired out, and then possibly
eaten alive by some other animal. Death isn't pretty, but in nature it's often a lot worse.

[Ayla of Duluth]

In that case, I think given the animal, boiling it would probably be the most humane way of killing it. It seems faster than any other way. But I don't eat seafood. So I wouldn't know. xD