Lobsters fighting on glow dive (How Do Lobsters Fight? -bsee below Facts)
Published on Oct 25, 2012 (240)
While on glow dive with Ocean Frontiers, Grand Cayman Island, came across two lobsters fighting.
Vision3e - facts: How do Lobsters Fight?
When lobsters fight, they first shove each other with their claws and then grasp each other’s crushing claws and squeeze. After fifteen or twenty seconds, the weaker lobster will usually try and retreat, and the winner releases it. A losing lobster may be spared if it is sufficiently submissive, but might still be hacked to death.
If squeezing isn’t enough to settle the matter, the claws are used to attack the other’s antennae, legs, claws or eyes. A lobster gripped by another lobster can jettison its own limb by using a special muscle at its base. This is a protective mechanism, because lobsters’ blood flows through their body cavities rather than through veins, so a leak in their shells can cause it to bleed to death unless it is sealed off. Also, although lobsters are not usually cannibals, the scent of an injured lobster’s blood can drive other lobsters to kill and eat it. Fortunately, lobsters can regenerate legs, antennae and claws, though not eyes – although sometimes other appendages can appear in the eye’s place.[1]
Facts: http://www.conservapedia.com/Lobster
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