The lobster was not happy to be plucked out of the seawater tank. It was thrashing at the air like Edward Scissorhands.
“How strong are their claws?” asked one of the visiting students.
“I would not want to get my fingers stuck in there,” said Sierra Muñoz, outreach program coordinator at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center. She held the lobster upside down at arm’s length to reveal its eight shorter legs, all spinning wildly.
Several students expressed concern for the tank’s other animals. Muñoz nodded in agreement.
“There was one in that other tank but he started taking the arms off of sea stars,” she said. “So I was like, nuh-uh, you’re going back to the ocean.”
Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University.
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