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From: "The Secret Life of Lobsters" via wikipedia
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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