In weird animal news, a NYC restaurant has agreed to release "George", a 140-year-old lobster, back into the wild rather than serving him for someone's dinner.
In future news, George the lobster has been eaten by a Cod.
But seriously, was anyone aware that lobsters live to be over 100 quite regularly? I somehow missed that episode of the Blue Planet (narrated by Richard Attenborough). Apparently, lobsters exhibit something known as "negligible senescence" which is basically that they never grow old. The idea is that every time a lobster molts, it sloughs off all the unhealthy cells and starts fresh, giving it a vitality boost.
Note to self: molt more often.
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Samstag, 10. Januar 2009
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