Learn about Lobsters (Learner Post)

Lobsters, are some of the weirdest animals around! They taste with their legs, and they have teeth inside of their stomach. They also, don't have brains! Since the lobsters stomach, is right behind its eyes, the teeth of a lobster are located inside of its stomach. The lobster has 2 main claws, 8 walking legs, a crusher claw, and a pincher claw. The crusher claw, is made to crush objects, and is big and has more muscles. The pincher claw, is longer than the crusher claw, and is used for holding on to things.  The lobster has 8 swimmerets, located on its abdomen. The swimmerets, are like tiny fins below its body, used to swim.

The tail of a lobster, can curl up to its body, and then un-curl back out to its full length. If the lobster does this really fast, it can swim really fast with its tail.  The female lobsters eggs, are located under its abdomen, in-between its swimmerets.  The female lobsters, are the mean lobsters, and will try to kill other lobsters if they get annoyed.  The walking legs are small legs, that the lobster uses to walk, and on the end of each walking leg, is a tiny claw, used to grab stuff, and for defense.  

Lobsters do have nervs, but, lobsters do not feel pain. This part is very interesting; lobsters do have reflex's to what would be considered pain to them. When someone gets hurt, they instantly have a reflex to the pain, whatever it is, but the actual pain is what comes after the reflex when the pain reaches the brain. Since lobsters have no brains, they only have reflex's to pain, but can not actually feel the pain.

If a lobster looses a certain limb, or claw, the lobsters can regenerate them. It usually takes about 5 years for a lobster to regenerate a claw that had been chopped off, but they can do it. 

Regenerating Claw.

Some cool facts about lobsters:

1. We have found lobsters living up to 100 years!
2. Lobsters can grow as big as 4 ft long and 40-50 Lbs.
3. If lobsters desperately need more food, they can feed off of smaller lobsters
4. Lobster blood is clear, not red like ours
5. Lobsters, can not survive in fresh water
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Working Day (i saw a sunfish!)

Yesterday, my Dad, and my Grandma Nancy, arrived to my moms house. We had pizza for dinner yesterday, and then, we watched Big Hero 6.  I slept at my Aunt Pennies, because i had to work today. Today, I had another bagel for breakfast, and then we went on to the boat. I did not bring my Bluetooth speaker today, because i thought that i wouldn't use it today! Today, was suppose to be a long day, and we were going to get done at about 2:30 P.M, but there was not a lot of lobster per trap, so we got through the traps really fast, and we got done before noon!

The first part of the day, i was getting really tired and was loosing all of my energy, and it seemed like i was always working, non, stop, and i didn't even have time to rest for like 10 seconds, but then, Uncle Art said it was snack time, and then i had a banana. Then, after that, i felt really good, and it was sunny out and clear, and i made a process in which i had about a 10 second break each time we hauled a trap.

Every-time uncle art hauled a trap, i would have a bait bag ready with a rockfish on it, ready to bait the trap. Every-time we hauled a trap, i would take the old bait bag out of it, and put a new bait bag inside of the trap. Then, i would quickly move to the lobster place, to band whatever lobsters we had gotten from that trap. By the time i was done banding the lobsters from the trap, the trap was going down into the water, and then, while Uncle Art was driving to the next trap, i would fill another bait bag, and put a rockfish on it to get it ready for the next trap. Then, i would have about a 10 second break between me getting the bait bag ready, and me baiting the next trap.

Today, we didn't have to bring the lobster boat into the dock to get bait, because Uncle Art had already gotten bait the day before, so we just got into the rowboat and got into the lobster boat, without having to come into the docks. I took a picture of the stairs right before we went out on the lobster boat, and then i took a picture of the stairs after we were done lobstering that day, to compare the tide at 5 A.M. to at Noon.

This is a picture of the stairs at 6 A.M.

This is a picture of the stairs around Noon!

As you can see, the tide rises during the day, and i will be doing a "Learn about the Tide" page, tomorrow, and the lobster "Learner Page" later today! The stairs are built so that when the tide comes in, or out, you can still access the floating wooden platforms. The bottom half of the stairs is usually covered with sea-weed, because that part of the stairs, is covered by water, half of the time.


During the last hour of me and Uncle Art being on the boat today, we saw a sunfish. A sunfish is a fat fish that looks like a big fat bullet with fins at the back of it.  This fish lives in tropical and warmer waters around the world. It can weigh between 300-1000 KG. as an adult! It kind of looks like a short, fat shark. I got a picture of it, but i will also show a better picture of it from online,

This is the picture of the Sunfish i got with my Ipod

This is a better picture of a Sunfish from online.

We got done around Noon, then, we got home, and i had a sandwich, and started to read the first 2 chapters of The Scarlet Letter because I need to read it for school, and my Oma is reading it with me at the same time. Then, my mom got here to bring me and Levi to her house, while they went to look at houses. (My mom wants to buy a house out in Maine, so we can use it if we come out to Maine in the future) Levi also got a potato gun, from the toy store with my mom. You basically stick the end of it into a potato, and then, you pull it, and the air, forces the potato piece out of it, and its awesome!

This is the potato gun.

You stick it into the potato, and then it pumps out the potato piece.

When you pull the potato gun grips together, it compresses the air until that air, shoots the potato piece out the end of the gun, and it goes really far! Its cool, because you can use it with crab apples also, and those are everywhere, so you have unlimited ammo! 

-August 15, Saturday