What is half blue, half male, half female and tastes great with clarified butter? That would be TikTok’s new crustacean sensation.
Jacob Knowles, a Maine lobsterman who has 2.6 million followers on TikTok, showed off the puzzling creature in a video he posted last Tuesday, which has been viewed more than 6.3 million times as of Monday. late.
“This is the coolest lobster I’ve ever seen,” a visibly excited Knowles said in the clip as he showed off the multicolored hermaphrodite lobster.
“Not only is it split 50-50 on its normal, blue back, but if you look underneath, it’s actually half male, half female,” Knowles explained as she manipulated the aquatic animal to reveal its dual reproductive organs.
The lobsterman added that the blue side of the lobster was male and its brown (or “normal” colored) side was female.
Tony Mc Lean, 38, fishmonger and owner of Collingwood Seafood on Northshields Fishing Pier, displays a rare blue lobster caught off the Northumberland coast at Seahouses.PA Images via Getty Images
Knowles said a friend of his had caught the rare creature and given it to him to show off on TikTok.
“[It’s] a very unique lobster. I’ve never seen one like it, I’ve never heard of one like it,” Knowles gushed, adding that it was probably “one of the rarest lobsters in the Gulf of Maine.”
The chances of finding a two-toned lobster are 1 in 50 million, according to the University of Maine Lobster Institute.
Jacob Knowles, a lobsterman from Maine who has 2.6 million followers on TikTok, showed off the puzzling creature in a video he posted last Tuesday. TikTok/@jacob__knowles The lobsterman added that the blue side of the lobster was male and its brown side, or “normal.” -colored: the side was female.TikTok/@jacob__knowles
Knowles asked her fans to decide whether she should let the lobster go or keep it in a spacious underwater cage as a “pet” during the winter months to see if it could reproduce on its own.
In a follow-up video, which garnered 4.5 million views, Knowles said her followers unanimously decided she should hold on to the crustacean and see if it could lay eggs.
A naming contest followed, with TikTok users overwhelmingly voting to name one lobster among 50 million “Bowie,” in honor of the late music icon David Bowie, whose eyes were famously two different colors and who created the alter androgynous ego Ziggy Stardust.
A selection of lobsters at the New England Aquarium (clockwise), a blue lobster, an orange lobster, a Halloween lobster, a regular lobster, and a yellow lobster. MediaNews Group via Getty Images A rare blue lobster is seen during unloading of the Dartmouth Crab Company catch. MFV William Henry II ship on January 22, 2021 in Weymouth, England. fake images
Knowles’ subsequent videos documented how he built a large metal enclosure, similar to an oversized lobster trap, for his new pet, and checked it out.
The fisherman warned that “there is a small chance” that Bowie would not survive, but promised that this unique lobster would be safer from predators inside the cage.
Knowles also asked any aquariums or scientific centers that might be interested in adopting Bowie to contact him.
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