They don’t scream in pain when you cook them.

Well technically, it’s the tomalley-a digestive gland that’s the intestine, liver, and pancreas. The grinding structure for breaking up food is called the gastric mill, kind of like a set of teeth on their stomachs, which are right behind the eyes and the size of a walnut in a one-pound lobster.Ħ.

“If you watch a lobster in a tank in a market, you’ll see they’re flipping, looking for food, dissolved substances in the water,” says Bayer. Small antennae in front of their eyes are used for tracking down food that’s farther away. Females are not monogamous.Ĭhemosensory leg and feet hairs identify food. A one-pound-and-a-half female lobster can have between 8,000 to 12,000 eggs, each about the size of a raspberry segment. Six to nine months later, eggs appear on her tail, and after another six to 9 months, they hatch. How do they do it? “I would describe it as the missionary position,” Bayer says. Usually, lobsters that shed their shells are vulnerable and could be eaten by other lobsters, but when a female says she’s ready to get it on, the male lobster will usually opt to have sex with her over killing her. Females that have just shed their shells send out a pheromone to let the males know they’re in the mood. Not much courtship precedes lobster love-making. Females are players-and they make the first move. “One of the reasons lobster culture is not profitable is because they are cannibalistic, and there are lot of expenses that go along with that.”ģ. “They’re looking for fresh food and what’s around, and if that happens to be another lobster, then it’s dinner,” says Bayer.

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