Comments on: Calvin the calico lobster

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:38:00 +0000

I’ve wondered about eating tarantulas

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:37:00 +0000

Giant Japanese crab? Attack it’s weak point for massive damage!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g1fr5vk72M

…. I’m sorry I had to

By: Ant

Ant — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:30:00 +0000

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32rqg_lobster_fun

By: obbop

obbop — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:52:00 +0000

Lobsters are merely large underwater insects.

Enjoy your dinner.

Then tell me that eating dog, horse or cat meat is reprehensible.

By: OoerictoO

OoerictoO — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:20:00 +0000

Homer: crying Oh man, that’s good. sobs Pass the butter. cries again

Bart: Are you going to eat that all by yourself?

Homer: sniff Uh-huh. Pinchy would’ve wanted it this way. deep stuttering breath My dear sweet Pinchy.

By: Critical Cortex

Critical Cortex — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:57:00 +0000

am I the only one who feels a strong desire to hear more about Maggie teaching lobsters to do handstands? Was it the same technique as kettledog, or is there a full oeuvre of lobster gymnastic mentoring styles?

By: Beanolini

Beanolini — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:26:00 +0000

It’s particularly fascinating that lobster colours are mostly dietary- they come from carotenoids, which crustaceans can’t synthesise themselves- they get them from plants.

But they do bind them up in proteins, which changes their colour from yellow, orange, or red to blue or green. And when a lobster’s cooked, the proteins denature, the carotenoids are released, and the lobster changes colour to pink or orange.

By: jennybean42

jennybean42 — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:09:00 +0000

That lobster is coming to the Biomes center in Rhode Island! I’m very excited because for Mother’s Day they are having a supervised, “shake a tentacle” event for moms (their octopus just learned it likes to play with human fingers.)

By: kettledog

kettledog — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Good luck with that Sea Snake thing.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:12:00 +0000

You also have to make a circle with their claws/arms so that they’re stable. You don’t have to rub their backs. Just hold them head down for 5-10 seconds until they become limp.

That’s the thing with evolving a longish body in water; your vascular system doesn’t have good muscles so your blood pools in one part of the body. You can probably do the same thing with a sea snake.

By: David Lawrence

David Lawrence — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:01:00 +0000

Hmmmm, sounds like they’re pretty aggressive and kinky according to this:

http://www.salon.com/2004/09/18/lobster_2/singleton/

By: glittertrash

glittertrash — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:58:00 +0000

I kept pet freshwater crayfish (Australian yabbies) as pets for a few years. If lobsters are anything like those, they are fabulously entertaining pets with a disturbing penchant for cannibalisation.

By: ryuthrowsstuff

ryuthrowsstuff — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:53:00 +0000

Ehhh I would question whether Thibault lasted too long. Lobsters don’t do particularly well in captivity. Large seafood companies have trouble keeping them going for more than a few months, aquariums have issues keeping them more than a few years.

Had a high school marine bio teacher that kept one in our fish tank for about 3 years. He SWEARS he let it go to keep it from dying and DID NOT EAT IT. Certainly not with butter.

By: Simon EO

Simon EO — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:37:00 +0000

This reminds me of the samurai crab from Cosmos, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heikegani

By: kettledog

kettledog — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:24:00 +0000

They have a little horn, and if you stand them up on it and rub their little backs, they go to sleep in a headstand. <– Things Chefs do when they have time on their hands.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:59:00 +0000

I see your calico lobster and raise you a half-green/black, half-red lobster:
http://lobsterfacts.livelob.com/another_half_cooked_lobster_found.htm

By: Kirby_G

Kirby_G — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:58:00 +0000

I’ve heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabardo has a pet prawn called Simon and you wouldn’t call him a looney. Furthermore, Dawn Pailthorpe, the lady show-jumper, had a clam called Stafford, after the late Chancellor. Allan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an haddock! So, if you’re calling the author of “A la recherche du temps perdu” a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!

By: Dan Century

Dan Century — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:38:00 +0000

I find arthropod color abnormalities fascinating. Like pink katydid morphs, or cicada eye color oddities http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2008/06/18/close-up-photos-of-marble-colored-cicada-eyes/

By: Dan Century

Dan Century — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:38:00 +0000

I find arthropod color abnormalities fascinating. Like pink katydid morphs, or cicada eye color oddities http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2008/06/18/close-up-photos-of-marble-colored-cicada-eyes/