You thought we were going to use a pun in there, weren't you?
Back in the day when we talked about your garden-variety lobster we spoke generally of its coolness, and how it should be respected for its rarity. And now if you didn't have enough to appreciate of these stellar crustaceans we bring you the sneaky wonder of nature and what she sometimes does when she's bored.
Lobsters are generally dark-toned creatures, with varying hues of brick to twig to clay. However once in a while (we're talking 1 in 30 million here) you get a pretty great variation:
The Yellow Lobster, or Fiona, to the right is a super-rare mutation. There are few cases in life when it pays to be a freak and she happened to win one of those uncommon chances. Being one of just a couple ever caught she happily (well, as happily as lobsters can be in a tank) dwells in a tank of fellow lobsters which are primarily blue.
Blue lobsters? Yes, blue lobsters are also a rarity (which makes us wonder how this restaurant is catching all these uncommon species...) equating to approximately 1 in 2 million. Being crayon-colored works well for these creatures since they are predominantly kept as "pets" in either restaurants or aquariums and spared the inevitable prospect of being someone's dinner.
Nearly every time a uniquely colored lobster appears we fall in love with it for its combination of rarity and quirkiness. It results in a few small news articles and very rarely release into native habitats. We're fans of leaving these curious creatures alone in their native habitats. There's something really interesting and heart-warming about seeing the ocean's creative side, and we'd like to admire from afar which is safest for us and them.
Lobsters are generally dark-toned creatures, with varying hues of brick to twig to clay. However once in a while (we're talking 1 in 30 million here) you get a pretty great variation:
The Yellow Lobster, or Fiona, to the right is a super-rare mutation. There are few cases in life when it pays to be a freak and she happened to win one of those uncommon chances. Being one of just a couple ever caught she happily (well, as happily as lobsters can be in a tank) dwells in a tank of fellow lobsters which are primarily blue.
Blue lobsters? Yes, blue lobsters are also a rarity (which makes us wonder how this restaurant is catching all these uncommon species...) equating to approximately 1 in 2 million. Being crayon-colored works well for these creatures since they are predominantly kept as "pets" in either restaurants or aquariums and spared the inevitable prospect of being someone's dinner.
Nearly every time a uniquely colored lobster appears we fall in love with it for its combination of rarity and quirkiness. It results in a few small news articles and very rarely release into native habitats. We're fans of leaving these curious creatures alone in their native habitats. There's something really interesting and heart-warming about seeing the ocean's creative side, and we'd like to admire from afar which is safest for us and them.
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