The Amazing Lobsters - Learn more about Lobsters here . . .
Lobsters are so alien to humans, it’s hard for us to imagine how they perceive the world. For example, lobsters “smell” chemicals in the water with their antennae, and they “taste” with sensory hairs along their legs.
But in many ways, lobsters really aren’t so different from us.
• Like humans, lobsters have a long childhood and an awkward adolescence.
• Lobsters carry their young for nine months and can live to be over 100 years old.
• Like dolphins and many other animals, lobsters use complicated signals to explore their surroundings and establish social relationships.
• Lobsters also take long-distance seasonal journeys and can cover 100 miles or more each year (the equivalent of a human walking from Maine to Florida) — assuming that they manage to avoid the millions of traps set along the coasts. Sadly, many lobsters don’t survive their most formidable predator—humans—and more than 20 million are consumed each year in the United States alone.
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