Posts Tagged ‘crustacean’

Lobster Moulting and Self Cannibalism

4th January 2008

Lobster has to be one of my favorite creatures to devour. Boil ‘em. Grill ‘em. I don’t care. I love it!

It turns out they feel the same way about their tasty flesh. Once a lobster has gone through a moulting process, shedding of its shell, a five hour long process, it feasts on the shell’s fleshy remains. It then buries it, hiding it, fearing predators will assume there is a vulnerable prey in the area.

Sorry. The video only shows the moulting process. Not the self cannibalism… Just take my word for it ;)

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