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From: "The Secret Life of Lobsters" via wikipedia
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The American lobster urinates not from some posterior region of | |
its body, but directly out the front of its face. Two bladders | |
inside the head hold copious amounts of urine, which the lobster | |
squirts through a pair of muscular nozzles beneath its antennae. | |
These powerful streams mix with the gill outflow and are carried | |
some five feet ahead of the lobster in its plume ... What the | |
researchers discovered during the ensuing fights was that dueling | |
lobsters accompanied their most punishing blows during combat by | |
intense squirts of piss at the opponent's face. What was more, in | |
scenes akin to a showdown at the OK Corral, the winner of the | |
physical combat almost always turned out to be the lobster that | |
had urinated first. And well after the fight was over, the winner | |
kept pissing. By contrast, the loser shuts off his urine valves | |
immediately. |
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