How many babies does a lobster have in a lifetime?

Because the eggs look like dark berries as they mature, female lobsters with eggs are often referred to as “berried lobsters.” On average, a female can carry between 7,500 and 10,000 eggs. Larger, older females have been found to carry up to 100,000 eggs at a time.
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How many babies does a lobster produce?

A 1-pound female lobster usually carries approximately 8000 eggs. A 9-pound female may carry more than 100,000 eggs. The female lobster carries the eggs inside for 9 to 12 months and then for another 9 to 12 months attached to the swimmerets under her tail.
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How often do lobsters reproduce?

The female can store the sperm for several months, waiting for the egg-laying season, which typically occurs during July and August. Females breed every two years. Female lobsters carry their eggs (known as berries) beneath their abdomen, attached to structures called spinnerets.
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What is the survival rate of lobster eggs?

The first few years of a lobster's life are precarious. Of the 10,000 eggs that a female may release only 1/10 of 1% may survive. (That's only 10 eggs!!) The life cycle of the American lobster begins with the planktonic phase.
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What is a lobster's life cycle?

Lobsters have a long and complex life cycle. Adults mate and the females carry eggs (berries) for 3-5 months. Larvae hatch and swim in the open ocean for 18-24 months, during which they undergo numerous moults and changes (11 phyllosoma stages) The puerulus stage settles and moults into the juvenile stage.
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Can a lobster live forever?

They found that, on average, male European lobsters live to 31 years old, and females to 54. There were a few exceptions: one female had reached 72 years old. Lobsters certainly do not live forever. It's not entirely clear where this myth originated, but it is a claim that persists online, often in the form of memes.
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Do lobsters mate for life?

“As it turns out, lobsters don't mate for life,” explained Mr. Wheir, a video editor in New York. Actually, male lobsters in particular are rather promiscuous. “Lobsters do have a monogamous bond, but it only lasts for two weeks,” said Trevor Corson, the author of “The Secret Life of Lobsters” (HarperCollins, 2004).
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What is the oldest lobster?

The oldest lobster in the world was named George and its estimated he was an incredible 140 years old, making him older than any human (the oldest human on record was 122 years old). George is an Atlantic lobster and was caught off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, in 2008.
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Can a lobster cut your finger off?

A lobster's claws are strong. A very large lobster could break your finger.
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What Colour is lobster blood?

Lobsters, like snails and spiders, have blue blood due to the presence of hemocyanin, which contains copper. In contrast, vertebrates and many other animals have red blood from iron-rich hemoglobin.
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What's a baby lobster called?

Actually, langostino is Spanish for “little lobster.” Although langostino's taste and texture are similar to lobster meat, langostino is not the crustacean Americans typically refer to as “lobster” — American, or Maine, lobster and spiny lobster.
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Do lobsters suffer when boiled?

Contrary to claims made by seafood sellers, lobsters do feel pain, and they suffer immensely when they are cut, broiled, or boiled alive. Most scientists agree that a lobster's nervous system is quite sophisticated.
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What's the biggest lobster ever caught?

However, the largest lobster ever caught in the world was captured in Nova Scotia, Canada, and weighed 44 pounds, measured 3 and a half feet long and was estimated to be over a century old. Lobsters molt in order to grow larger, and they grow their entire lives.
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Can you eat a pregnant lobster?

The good news is that most types of seafood, including crab and lobster, are safe to eat while you're pregnant.
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How many eggs does one lobster lay?

1. An adult lobster can lay up to 100,000 eggs, depending on the size of the female. The female carries her fertilized eggs externally under her tail, attached to her swimmerets, for a period of 9 to 12 months.
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How old is a 1 pound lobster?

A lobster's age is approximately his weight multiplied by 4, plus 3 years. A lobster is approximately 7 years old before it is legal to harvest, and it will weigh about 1 pound.
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How do lobsters pee?

A lobster pees from openings (nephrophores) located at the base of its second antennae. These excretory organs are called green glands and include a sac linked to a bladder by a coiled tube [source: Lobster Conservancy].
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How long can a lobster live out of water?

How long can lobster live out of water? A good hard-shell lobster can live up to 36 hours out of water if kept cool, moist and refrigerated. Since lobster is a gill breather wet newspaper and/or seaweed helps keep them moist. Since lobsters are seawater creatures never store them in fresh water.
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Do lobsters have brains?

The lobsters nervous system is very primitive. In fact it is most similar to the nervous system of an insect. Neither insects nor lobsters have brains. Further, lobsters and other invertebrates have only approximately 100,000 neurons while humans have over 100 billion.
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Do lobster pee out of their eyes?

Lobsters pee out of their faces.

They have urine-release nozzles right under their eyes. They urinate in each other's faces as a way of communicating, either when fighting or mating.
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Are lobsters intelligent?

Just like us, they also carry their young for nine months and can live to be more than 100 years old. Researcher Michael Kuba says that lobsters are “quite amazingly smart animals.” Like dolphins and many other animals, lobsters use complicated signals to explore their surroundings and establish social relationships.
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Why do lobsters scream in hot water?

Lobsters don't have vocal cords, and even if in agony, they cannot vocalise. The high pitched sound made by an overheating lobster is caused by expanding air rushing out of small holes in lobsters' bodies, like a whistle being blown. A dead lobster will “scream” just as loudly as if it was living.
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Do lobsters scream when boiled?

For starters, lobsters don't scream when you boil them. In fact, they lack lungs and don't even have the proper biological equipment to form a scream. What you hear is air and steam escaping from the shells of their simmering suppers.
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Do lobsters have emotions?

Lobsters seek out 'safe spaces' when stressed

It's enough to make any lobster anxious … and yes, new research has revealed crustaceans may experience anxiety — considered a complex emotion — in much the same way humans do.
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Can lobsters show affection?

In fact, scientists have found that the nerve cells in a lobster's antennae and leg hairs are more specialized than those of any other creature. The lobsters' two-week courtship and mating ritual is especially touching in its apparent affection. In many ways, lobster interaction seems almost human.
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