Most people think that lobsters are red. In fact, they are brown or olive green with reddish hues. They blush after cooking, because heat destroys all pigments, except red.
Caught in Canada, a lobster weighing 20.15 kg is the largest lobster in the world, which entered the Guinness Book of Records.
Previously, lobsters were used as bait for fish or as fertilizer.
Lobsters differ from other crustaceans in large clawed extremities, otherwise they are similar.
There are 49 species of lobsters in the world.
Annually about 200 thousand tons of lobsters are caught.
Lobsters use their claws to catch and cut the prey.
The brain and nervous system, heart, lobster stomach is similar to the human.
The body of a lobster is protected by an external skeleton called “exoskeleton”.
Deep-sea lobsters are blind. Other species have complex eyes. They can not see a clear image, but they can detect movement even at night.
Lobsters eat mainly mollusks, worms and crustaceans. They also consume algae and another type of marine vegetation.
Males are larger than females, males live 31 years, females 54 years.
Lobster, in cooking is considered a delicacy.
