Thursday, June 7, 2018

LOBSTER

LOBSTER


* Lobsters have long bodies with muscular tails, and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor.

* Three of their five pairs of legs have claws, including the first pair, which are usually much larger than the others.

* Highly prized as seafood, lobsters are economically important, and are often one of the most profitable commodities in coastal areas they populate.

* Lobsters are found in all oceans. They live on rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms from the shoreline to beyond the edge of the continental shelf.

*They generally live singly in crevices or in burrows under rocks.

* Lobsters are omnivores and typically eat live prey such as fish, mollusks, other crustaceans, worms, and some plant life.

* They scavenge if necessary, and are known to resort to cannibalism in captivity. However, when lobster skin is found in lobster stomachs, this is not necessarily evidence of cannibalism – lobsters eat their shed skin after moulting.



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