Have you examinated your lobs lately? If so, you may have noticed that their claws are not symmetrical. The pincher claw is smaller and sharper looking than the crusher claw and like most things in nature, there is a damn good reason for this. Crusher, as it is called, is the larger slower and dumber of the two claws, it is used primarily in hanging on tight to prey as well as female mates (ridiculous). Pincher is the smaller, stealthier and sharper of two. Stick your finger in a lob trap and you are more likely to get pinched by a pincher than a crusher. REOW! Some lobs have a crusher on the right, pincher on the left, sometimes it’s the other way around and sometimes lobs have double crushers or double pinchers. These lobs are weird and nasty-ass mutants. Biologists seem to believe that the random claw formation and location is genetic, however signs point to environmental influence as well. Once in a while a lob will lose its claw. Whether they lose it to an undersea battle or “autotrophy” (self-amputation ala Aron Ralston) losing a claw means being sold at a cheaper price as CULLS.
Aron Rolston, the guy who sawed off his own arm when trapped by a boulder in Utah.
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| Does this still look appetizing to you? |
Lobster claws grow at an exponential rate as the lobs get older and crustier, kind of like the ears on an old man. When the lob is young and spritely, its claws may amass only about 5% of their total body weight. As they get older, the claws can account for up to half of a lobster’s total body weight!
WEIRD AND GROSS FACT: You know that curd-like, white substance that floats to the surface when you boil your lob? That is lobster blood. HAHA. Lobsters don’t have veins which means that said milky substance floats around the inside of their bodies bathing their organs, like a blood bath.
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