This Lobster Lived Inside A Clam Bar For 20 Years Then, At The Age Of 132, The Remarkable Happened
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 เม.ย. 2018
- This lobster had been in a seafood restaurant for longer than its most recent owner. In fact, the newest proprietor had come to see him as a friend rather than as food. And then, one day, he made up his mind: he knew exactly what to do with the crustacean.It sounds like a Disney movie: a lobster stuck in a tank longing to see the world outside the glass. For one crustacean captive, though, it was real life, and it was a story that had begun decades ago. But for better or worse, all of that was about to change.The shellfish in question is called Louie, and by all accounts, he is one long-lived lobster. Although it’s hard to be exact given his incredible lifespan, Louie is roughly 132 years old. And that makes him one of New York’s oldest incarcerated lobsters.
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Left elastics on his claws for 20 years then let him go. Really speaks volumes about how people think, or don't think rather
did you see the leon the lobster video
Yes after a few weeks their claws stop working if bound.
Too Fing dumb. People just don't think!
@@julianhinkston1839 it brought me here😂😂
@@julianhinkston1839 yup and it couldn't open its claws untill a while smh.
It’s like taking your 15 year old dog that you’ve fed and taken care of his whole life and setting him free in the woods at 15 years old.
Sounds like a death sentence not a pardon.
Yes ...so true
This is horrible story...
It's so messed up
Yep
Exactly. What a stupid thing to do. Just upgrade his tank and let him live the rest of his VERY old life in peace. People need to stop idealizing the Free Willy shit. In many cases it's not practical, and very cruel to do things like this to animals who've been in captivity for so long.
Saw a video of a man who bought a live lobster from a grocery store as a pet it took that lobster almost a month to regain use of both its claws I can only imagine how long it would take lobsters that age to do that if ever a aquarium would have been a more humane choice
That's exactly how I got to this video and I thought the same exact thing! It would've been much better to rehabilitate it before sending it back into the wild!
@@nickschafer8016 They released 2 old lobsters in that condition
Same !
Yes, dito!
Yeah man, Leon the Lobster. Those videos are great and you’re right, after 20 years those crusher claws would be useless. Hopefully he wasn’t banded the whole time.
Sad to say, both lobster's probably didn't live that long after being released into the wild. Decades of captivity has made them accustomed to tank life, and if their claws were banded the whole time during captivity, they had absolutely no chance in the wild after the neurological damage it would've caused them.
Dunno, but lobsters are one of the animal kingdom whom is considered to be immortal because of their regenerating capabilities. It's not really concerning if there's entropy on their claws because they can easily regain that muscles. They're the only animals that don't die on old age on cellular level but rather their exoskeleton shells is the one that is preventing them from growing exponentially.
Yup
Yea there both were nothing more then food for the bigger fish
they basically die of not being able to move, not because they're old.
I thought lobsters shed there shells once a year for growth and also could regenerate lost limbs?
How does everyone in the comment section have enough sense to realize releasing a lobster that was sitting in a tank with its claws clamped for 20+ years is a bad idea but the guys planning it couldn't realize it?
Fact
Because the restaurant saw it as a publicity stunt. If they really cared for the lobster, they would’ve taken him to an aquarium or at least consulted with one, understanding he would need rehab and never survive in the wild. You can tell just how much they cared for him by keeping him banded and confined in a tight space for years, then holding him up under his claws for their photo op. And publicizing the event likely encouraged ppl to find him and serve him up.
It doesn't matter it's not up to anyone now let the cycle of life begin, at least they did the right thing by setting him free
Agreed, this is where emotions take over. And reason leaves.
his claws should be totally destroyed
Anyone who's coming here after watching Leon the Lobster, it's safe to say that Louie probably straight up died in like 2 days after being released. All these people thinking they're doing a good deed proudly waving around Louie as an advertisement to their seafood restaurant not realizing that they (1) removed Louie's instinct for hunting because after 20 years of spoon feeding in a tiny ass cage how the hell does anyone expect it to be able to hunt for food on its own, and (2) destroyed Louie's claws from those rubber bands that destroyed all its nerve damage. Such a shame man.
I know. The whole “look at us” while sending him to his death.
You are right, it's inhumane. And yeah we could give them the excuse of "not knowing" but I don't think that's what's happening here.
Yeah, no chance he would have survived. Leon took about a month or more of rehabilitation with a lot of help from a human. Lobsters are treated so inhumanely
They also sent one of the oldest lobsters in captivity into the ocean for no reason aswell..... Coulda made a better choice giving it to a zoo or something like that
Yes, i have seen Leon before. That Was the reason i watch this, and it is horrible to see this story, with the knowlege out of the Leon video😔
R.I.P Larry, he died 5 minutes after he was thrown in the water. He couldn't use his claws because his muscles were to weak after being banned shut for 20 years.
I see what you're sayin, however, they can (and do) go long periods of time w/out food. They aren't fed in grocery stores and sometimes they get so hungry they will kill another lobster even w/ the bands still on! Never seen it personally, but a friend that worked near the seafood dept. in a store did. So, if he could survive w/out food long enough to molt and regenerate his claws...who knows? I sure hope it's a possibility, to think he was dumped in the ocean (at 132 yrs of age) with no chance of surviving is heartbreaking...and that's something both of us will agree on.
you think his claws were rubber banned shut for 20 years? 😂ya know they usually only use those bands for moving the lobsters
@@SETHPCAMPOS they leave those on in the tank so they dont kill the other lobsters.
@@ShyFly221 not at restaurants, but they will in an environment were they mean to sell them raw
@@ShyFly221 were you at this restaurant to see if he was with other lobsters or not?
Noooooo! Who thinks Larry remembers how to hunt after 20 + years? Who thinks his claw muscles still work after being banded shut that long? Let's take a vote!
to be fair, he was like almost 200 years old, it's not like he couldn't re learn
I can't believe the whole town didn't think this would be a bad idea... 20 years in a tank with barely any room to move, that poor thing was probably pretty quick lunch for whatever was nearby when they released it... We don't even know their full lifespan, with such an old specimen already it could possibly have been appreciated by generations to come by simply moving it to an aquarium!
He turned down $1k to instead release it for free to a likelier more painful death... People disgust me.
Probably not the sharpest community
Most people are idiots.
That's what I was thinking. We don't know shit about how long a lobster can "Truely" live for. N this dude straight up threw out his "sell it to science card" to give it to a shark/octopus in the ocean lol. and he pissed away one of the oldest captive lobsters if not the oldest lol
@Goodnight Munchie I smell racism
@Goodnight Munchie Gonna end this conversation so that your two racist brain cells aren't stressed from reading english any longer :)
Next headline: “local fisherman finds incredible 22lb lobster and says it was the feast of a lifetime!”
Missy Marie
Best comment!! Hahaha!! 😃
I'm dead
Yeah, Really Missy! This is why I prefer my dogs company over a humans any day of the week. Stupid humans!!
Right!
Same thing happened in San Marcos Texas back in the 2000 flood when this guy caught a huge albino catfish from the water park Upstream
Poor Louie has probably become institutionalised! He probably doesn’t know or remember how to fend for himself in the wild. He’s not had to hide or search for food for so many years now. A really nice massive aquarium would probably have been better. But regardless, I hope he’s still doing well out there somewhere!
When the claws get wrapped Up for a few weeks they cant open them anymore because Well the muscles are stopping to Work because He isnt using them ...he wasnt even abled to move in that small Tank so He probably hasnt a lot of muscles left ...the Handling time was way too long and He probably got braindamage due to that ...so well He probably starved ...sadest Thing to see such an old animal that misstreated
99% he’s dead. Sorry to be negative Nancy but you can’t feed an animal for 20 years not allowing it to move then expect him to hunt his own food with 0 muscle mass or hunting skills
@@michaelfosco2531 he was 132 so im guessing he spent over a hundred years fending for himself.
@@korz3430 you think he would remember after 20 years?
@reebz --- LOL.."Poor Louie has probably become institutionalized!!"...sort of like Brooks from Shawshank Redemption.
You can't just release a lobster like that straight from that type of captivity. It's a death sentence.
After so long his muscles have atrophied so much, it will take years of rehabilitation. Even then, he may never recover enough to survive on his own.
They should have given him an aquarium upgrade instead
First Name agreed he’s been out of the Wild too long to go back....
Just about to comment this lol
Okay.. Just about to comment this too.. Lol
If he doesn't die, he may be caught by someone else who WILL eat him.
First Name I agree
There's a giant lobster that lives in a isolated cove near my house on Cape Breton Island. He has a nice den under a old pilling. I first came across him wile diving 20 years ago. He is way too large to fit in a trap. I would estimate he is about a yard long about 30-40 pounds. Live long and prosper buddy.
Love it, I grew up playing on the underside of boathouses on the New Brunswick shore. The ocean and it's inhabitants are indeed magical ❤️
I live off the coast of nova scotia and back in 2007 while scuba diving (around the lighthouse of east manotick island) I spotted "louie" the 95 lbs gargantuan lobster. he's estimated at 150 years old and 2 1/2 meters long. I tried to get a selfie with him but he tore my arm off and managed to rip the hose off my oxygen supply. I almost drowned and screamed in panic but managed to make it back to the boat. just as we were taking off louie pulled the hull down on the starboard side and damn near capsized us. as we sped away I looked back and saw louies giant 5 inch eyeballs menacingly staring at us from above the dark ocean waters. every night I wake up screaming thinking of louie dragging me down into the ocean.
You're a good man, Stephen Bray, very good man, indeed. Let 'em live long and peaceful, like we should be doing.
Say No to POT 🦀
@@chrishayes5755 lmfaooo !! I laughed more than I should at this golden comment.
Let's preserve Larry's life by sending him out to sea without current hunting or self-defense skills.
RIP Larry
Lobsters don’t hunt, they scavenge.
But this old thing probably had forgotten how to do that.
Poor Louie. He couldn't have been able to survive. Hungry predators. No food. Confusion. Claws banded for 20 years. If only they realized that. Plus, holding him like that was probably so stressful for Louie. I doubt he made it much longer than a week. Oh well :(
To assure his safety they should've found a public aquarium somewhere that he would be able to live a happy life in instead of dodging the fishing boats. At least in most public aquariums the tanks are big enough to allow for the lobster to thrive and it won't be in danger of people catching them to eat them.
The ancient lobsters would have been good publicity and attendance draw for the aquarium, too!
That would have made sense. But this was more of a publicity stunt.
@@genek8630 if you want a publicity stunt, literally just put a large aquarium at your restaurant and keep him there
now you are known as the guy with the oldest(?) living lobster. pretty good publicity if you ask me
That's why you're clever Joseph and those guys are a bunch of melts.
...a life that lengthy deserved far more respect.
If he and the longest living person were born and hatched at the same time Louie would outlive them
After having his claws banded shut for that long, they probably doomed him to death since he wouldn’t have been able to use his claws after all that time. An aquarium would have been a better choice. Their pardon, though done for commendable reasons, was a bit misguided. I’m surprised they didn’t consult with an expert to make sure he would be able to survive. I hope he does.
Nope. Sadly, anything kept in captivity that long wouldn’t know how to survive in the wild on its own
Yeah, no chance he’ll survive for long at all. Either the people there are extremely stupid or they just don’t care and did this for some good publicity.
As noble as it may sound to release a tank lobster to the wild again, if they have been banded on the claws in all that time it will take then a great deal of time to get their claws working again and during that time they will be particularly vulnerable to predation without that defence. If you are releasing a claw banded lobster you should take the bands off at least a month maybe even more to allow the claw to start working again before releasing them to the depths.
People keep mentioning the claws, but even if they had use of them, he has been captive too long and wouldn’t know how to survive in the wild. You can’t release captive animals back into the wild.
Leon the Lobster[2 videos on YT] needed about 80 days to get his claws working again. He was 1 year captivated max. We can only hope Louis wasn't wearing this sh*** the whole 20 years.
@@liebefriedenworldwide8780 Yes. I am hoping (perhaps wishful thinking) that since they can go long periods of time w/ out food in grocery stores (and a friend who worked right next to the seafood dept. in a store reminded me that he saw some lobsters get so hungry w/out food after so long, they killed a weaker lobster in the cage while still banded)...so, if able to survive w/out food long enough to molt and perhaps regenerate his claws/limbs, perhaps there's a chance..however improbable and small that chance is.
Died in a week when the food never dropped on its face.
He's not going to die out there. The two coastguard guys have butter on their hands...
Marie Jane oh my god...
lmfao seriously. poor lou but he should have had 100 years of ocean experience and wasnt too institutionalized XD
Its legs probably have muscular dystrophy from staying in the same position for 12-13 long, long sad decades, all while watching people eat all his friends one by one.
Marie Jane what does butter on their hands mean? (Not from a English speaking country) Thanks
What great guys! Holding him by the claws instead of by the body so his shoulder sockets are stressed to the limit. Oh, and showing him off for an hour or two in the open air is also great for his health. It’s true that lobsters can live out of water for a while, but they struggle to get enough oxygen. And finally, putting him back in the ocean after 20 years in captivity is a death sentence. Nice work, fellows!
My thoughts exactly, like why are you holding it like that ?
Gerald Romanow yeah they're all idiots
Because you're like a marine biologist or something - gotta love someone pontificating without a clue. Crabs drop their claws when handled by them - lobsters do not. Did you observe the claws still on the lobster when released? Not stressed to the limit - the limit is when they break off :)
Hahahaha... shut up, Darin.
Not to mention the thing had rubber bands on its claws for decades. His pinch strength is probably non existent.
bands on his claws and captivity for ages, not using its muscles... it wouldve struggled to survive back in the ocean. the muscles and dexterity would have atrophied and he wouldve struggled to simply move to catch food
Exactly, it took about two weeks for one much younger bought from a grocery store to start using his claws again....This one probably has no chance.....He's most likely dead...
@@Blackinterceptor999 Leon
@@RememberRox Leons the man! I want a leon now lol
Oh no! Lobsters that have had their claws rubber banded take a long time to be able to use their claws again. They’re essentially helpless for days if not weeks depending on if they can catch food. He needed to be rehab in a separate tank without the rubber bands on for a while prior to release or it’s really just a death sentence
5 years later Loui came back as a level 10 Kiju and wrecked the city.
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dazhibernian, watch out, Godzilla. Lol
there's just one problem-- the older a lobster is, the more likely for it to die from molting complications. 132 is almost impossible.
and animals generally taste worse and worse as they get older.
Hey someone else who knows wtf he is talking about! yes exactly, the second Louie had to molt he was toast.
Yeah I would think so lol
superdupergrover
Hires a doctor to help him shed
Doctor: Sadly he didn’t make it, want some lobster?
The thing is lobsters have the enzyme telomerase, so aging simply does not have an effect on a lobster like it does humans. Lobsters actually grow continuosly until they die. The reason lobsters die is because of diseases and being eaten. So 132 isn't impossible, it's just the likelihood that someone keeping a lobster alive for 100+ years is just absurd and rare. Generally the older the meat the worse it'll taste, but that isn't always true. What you're referring to is meat.
lobsters are biologically immortal and usually die from being eaten
I just watched a vid of a grocery store lobster brought home and put in a 55 gallon seawater tank. It was days before it could open and close it's crushing claws because they had been banded. Wonder how this one did.
I watched the same one, definitely needs a bigger tank, and probably more things to entertain itself.
Probably died in a week
Louie
@@Blackinterceptor999 the guy said he’s going to get him a bigger tank now that he has recovered some
Leon!
that lobster would die very fast in the wild, its crusher claw is desintegrated because of lack of use, when the losster cant use these for a very long time, their muscles in that area die, so releasing this animal is similar to releasing a scorpion with no tail or claws into the wild.
This seems to me to have been an incredibly cynical move on the part of the restaurant owners. Freeing one old lobster who is almost certainly going to die after being fed for the last 20 years and then dumped out to find his own food, and then profiting on it by making a huge deal about how noble his is by freeing one ancient lobster making sure a pack of reporters and town officials are around to give his restaurant maximum exposure and business....said business being the cooking and feeding to humans dozens of Larry's smaller and tastier cousins every single goddamn night.
Honestly, screw this guy. What a cynical ass.
not only that, the poor things old claws must be so sore and totally useless.
@@kay1761 they looked rather damaged as well
its Great publicity !! 😞
Animals that spend a lot of their time in captivity die after being released. That lobster didn't have to hunt for food or fight for it's life for twenty years and now it has to. Probably died within a week.
Daniel Mcleod it also probably couldn't open it's claws. It would have been more humane to eat the thing.
Daniel Mcleod either that or someone just went and caught him again and ate him
Daniel Mcleod .... It lived wild for over 100 years , I doubt it would forget how to survive.. Animals are not as stupid as we stupidly believe. It beats being boiled alive
Chuck Barlow stop using a muscle for twenty years. See if you can use it when you need it.
alex knight
.. It would not have survived in the tank if it didn't use it's claws
to eat. I doubt they use IV tubes to force feed it. It won't die overnight if it doesn't eat right away.
Tortured it for decades then gave it a slow death. GG.
After having their claws banded for so long their main defensive weapons are completely useless.
They need to be properly rehabilitated before release otherwise theyll probably die.
Yup, not to mention they are captive animals and don’t know how to survive in the wild anymore
Probably a scuba diver in the water just waiting lol...
Candi Soda, Was thinking of the same thing. Lol
Ditto.
thinking the same thing that guy with the 1000$
El Lmao
Me.
The owner didn’t do it for the lobster, he did for brand awareness. Think about it he made it on the news, he’s building his companies public relations.
@kevin -- what's his company name?
There was one like that years ago, that was from a restaurant, a patron bought it, then decided eating this big lobster wasn't on the menu, so he took it to the Boston Aquarium, and he lived out his life, safe from cooking, with friends in the huge display tank.
That would have been a better place to put Larry, compared to the open sea. He wouldn't know how to fend for himself in the wild, what with him being stuck in a tank for two decades, so it would have been best for him to be put in a bigger, better tank with his fellow kind.
The restaurant owners mistreated him for that long, keeping him in that small tank when he was young, and bringing him out of the water for hours on end and holding him up by his claws for photoshoots when the people realized he was so old. Releasing him in the wild was effectively a death sentence for him.
@@Khim_0129 This news is not the only and first one a decades old lobster released. Plus, Lobster are genetically Immortal.
And another thing considering his size, he'll survive in most case. Unless he meet reef shark, which he'll die regardless.
Cool story, but i think, like many of these comments, that they needed to transition him slower. His crusher claws would be inoperable for a very long time because they've been banded for so long, along with his smaller claws after living in a tank for so long. I really hope they didn't just send him to his death.
They did unfortunately. Any animal kept in captivity for 20 plus years will not remember how to fend for itself, it won't know how to feed itself, it won't know how to hide because these things have not been a part of its life for longer than it was in the ocean in the first place. they sentenced both of those lobsters to die from sheer stupidity. Their claws are unusable they have atrophied and severe muscle loss. Honestly the most humane thing that they could have done with those animals would have been to give them to an aquarium. As it is they most likely died in the first 24 hrs.
@@Lynthari And what’s sad is they thought they were being nice.
@@sweetluvgurl that and they do it every year to another super old lobster.
1 it's ither dead
2 it's been 're captured
3 it's been eaten
Glitch The Deer or all 3
Wouldn't eaten and dead be the same thing cause you have to kill him to eat him
all three...
I mean... You don't HAVE to kill him first when you start eating him.....
My thoughts exactly.
Why not an aquarium. Somebody will probably catch him. Sad
My worries exactly.
that sicko who wanted to eat the obvious PET, is probably trying to find'em..
srsly, who tf but a sicko eats something w a Name that's beloved by everyone??
It's gonna die soon enough so i think its better to eat them
it is not sad and you are a fake person, pretending you give a fuck about this one god damn lobster. You probably love eating meat, too.
me i'd of eatting it. its just food after all. dont matter if you call it blue or just lobster
Welcome to freedom.
This is actually a really sad story! The lobsters claws have been bandaged for 20 plus years and has lived in captivity for 20 plus years and all of a sudden they just expect it to survive in the wild? Furthermore, If I had been the guy that wanted the lobster for a thousand bucks I could probably have just fished him back out after they released him....
so after having his claws in rubber bands for 20 years they expect him to be able to use them to defend him self if needed? maybe it would have been better to give him to an Aquarium
His chances are very slim. I think you could have found some aquarium to put him in
pedrobrawn79 Chances are slim because?...
뿡뿡! ^__^ Because that Lobster has a lot of enemies and owes some serious people a lot of money. The second those goons find out he's no longer in protective custody he's going to be pushing up daisies.
Exactly what I was thinking
pedrobrawn79 what are you some kind of lobster expert?
Chris James just someone who understands how nature works and what happens when we take care of animals who end up depending on us.
I'm surprised that (1) at least one of these 100 year+ lobsters wasn't given to an aquarium (just to see how long they _can_ live), and (2) no scientists are studying lobsters (much less other crustaceans) to see why they live for so long and how age affects their bodies.
PS: I'm surprised they didn't pin a tracking device on him to see how he does.
It actually has been researched. Lobsters have an infinite supply of an enzyme allowing them to repair their telomeres. So basically they can keep their DNA from aging
Im surprised you think no scientists are studying lobsters.
@@brunoqueiroz2759 🤦 it’s not something you hear about a lot, is it?
Of _course_ there’s going to be _somebody_ researching it… I would think that it would be something you would think would be a bigger deal.
@@TheRealNormanBates in the internet age what you hear about is up to you. Adjust your search habits and algorithms will make sure you hear about this stuff
Wait a second, his claws have been in rubber bands this whole time? Those things are just for show now. The muscles on those have atrophied so much he probably couldn't open them. He's got no defenses now.
His claws wont work after being binded for so long. He wont survive
When the lobster is older then you respect it 💯
20 years in a tiny tiny tank what a sad life... Why not give him a nice tank in a zoo at least 🤔 so he won't get caught
Drakilicious
Foreal
Drakilicious its different. You think we shouldn't have prisons?
Yeah they could probably donate him to a city aquarium. The tanks are bigger and he would have better healthcare.
Well in an Aquarium the animals are less likely to be eaten. It's really the height of luxury for animal really.
They don't have lobsters at the zoo.
20 years in a tank that boi does not know how to catch its own food anymore😵😵😵😵
Connor Tremeer lobsters scavenge kid they dont hunt.
is literally not a problem
Lobsters dont catch food...
Lobsters clean the ocean.
It's never eaten food since being captured decades ago.
After watching the video of that guy keeping the restaurant lobster as a pet I’ve been getting so many lobster videos recommended to me
What great people to have "pardoned" that lobster. What did those lobster ever do to deserve such treatment in the first place. Humans are sick.
''waaah humans so evil for eating food''
Tastes delicious with melted garlic butter
@@redcrown5154 They kept the lobster in a tank barely bigger than it for 20 years for food?
@@yamahakid450f then why didn't they eat it instead of keeping it in jail for 20 years
@@eldertoguro1 stress and danger free food, danger free shelter, no danger from predators.
3 days later a young man named Harry knobs caught a 22 pound lobster in the same area where Larry was released and instead of keeping it as a pet like some people do he boiled it up and served it to his friends what a truly inspired story if only they all could have happy endings like this
bro. you wanna get lobstered?
@@ChickenMcThiccken 😂😂
bru
He did the best thing.fresh chunk of meat with 28G protein/100G meat
Loserz
They should have put him in his own tank with more room to move around. Not too smart to release him.
Go to Santa Cruz Island you can see multiple 100 year old lobsters running around just as big. They eat dead stuff.
Many more of these out there just as old and protected by law in their mpa.
This lobster has both been crippled by having its claws banded for some unknown length of time and a long time in captivity dulling its ability to both feed itself and avoid predation. Putting it back out to sea without any effort to rehabilitate it is so cruel they may as well have thrown that creature into a dumpster. At least if they had cooked it, it would have died for some purpose, but tossing it back out to sea to die just seems mindlessly cruel, like the PETA members that break into mink farms and put the minks out into the wild to starve to death and freeze to death. Sad.
Theres something that seems genuinely insane to me at the thought of a creature that has lived longer than me, my parents and my grandparents being ended in seconds just for a meal
Here comes the vegan, lol.
@@AyanaSioux no, eat meat every day, think bigger.
@@ianmckeon760 lol nah. I'm actually a vegan of 7 years. Being vegan puts me at ease knowing I'm not needlessly ending an animals life. Plus it's much healthier 😁💜 maybe give it a try 😊
@@AyanaSioux Great for you that you like depriving your body of necessary nutrients it needs and to be malnourished. Cutting out two whole food groups isn’t wise. The food pyramid is a guide for diets for a reason. Hope saving the animals is more important than your own health. But I’m sure you’ve convinced yourself that you are just as healthy as ever.
@@sweetluvgurl lol you should probably educate yourself on health. I get regular blood tests and I'm fine. The one thing i do need to cut out because of my cholesterol, and blood pressure fluctuations, though is refined fats.
But if you think vegans are malnourished, you're severely deprived of food education, which is obvious given you used the food pyramid as reference. I recommend you read some studies and the learn about the China study. There's many resources i can point you to.
The reality is that vegans actually live healthier and longer than non-vegans. Don't let big pharma fool you. 💜
My main concern isn't with them not knowing how to scavenge. Like said before a Lobster relies on instincts alone, it isn't all from memory. But my concern is that they have those claws rubber-banded for 20 and 30 years respectively on both old Lobsters. Wouldn't muscle atrophy be a concern with not being able to use them for decades?
BFKAnthony817 Depends on whether or not they were really banded for that long. Likely had a tank of its own. Lobsters are only banded when they need to be taken out.
Lobsters dont hunt...
Lobsters are scavengers
Did you guys even read the comment?
The Foxes he originally wrote hunting
Is this how Spongebob show got their character, Larry the Lobster?
Jake Nguyen larry the *lobster* lol
Larry is the snail. And there is no lobster in spongebob
????? yea there is larry the lobster search it up
Uhhh... dwayne... you ever watch spongebob? The snail is GARY and there is a lobster character named larry.
@@dwaynejohnson7560 exactly
Lobsters can live an astonishingly long time, and grow to immense proportions. I saw a picture of a lobster claw dredged from the area of the Marianas Trench in the Pacific about 50 years ago, in a display case in the oceanographic museum in Monaco; it was as tall as a man! Gigantism in the deep trenches is common.
Sadly, after being incarcerated for 20+ years, Louie couldn’t adjust to life “outside” so he robbed a liquor store and was thrown back in the only real home he’s ever known.
rofl Thanks for the comic relief from knowing how it actually went for him. I thought incarcerated was a weird word to use in this situation.
Bet someone jumped into the water after Larry’s release and ate him for dinner that night.
DankDew I thought it was LOUIE?
That was dumb someone or something prolly ate Louie as soon as he was released
Toby
"Prolly" are you SERIOUS "prolly" are you that lazy that you couldn't muster up the strength to write TWO more letters so you could spell probably!! Or did you just NOT know how to spell "probably!!"
I think it's prolly because you were just too lazy!! LoL!!
I'm just kidding you man!!
*_GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIEND!!!_*
@@keithgood3419 Are you hanging out with Ellis?
anyone else here after that video of a guy buying a store lobster and keeping it for over a month?
People never cease to amaze me. It’s like the release of the captive orcas that have lived their lives in tanks. They actually have ocean “pens” and feed them and really care for them carefully because they can’t just join a pod (they’re families in pods and speak different “languages”) and have no clue how to care for themselves, but to give themselves room and feel the rhythms of the ocean.
Also, as another note, my ex-husband grew up in a small remote fishing village only accessible by boat or chartered small plane. The bigger the lobster does not equal taste. In fact, once you get over a few pounds, the meat isn’t as tender or tasty, so eating him? Probably wouldn’t taste as nicely.
As someone else said, Leon the grocery store lobster had his elastics removed and took a couple of months to be able to use his claws. Can you imagine years with the elastics on his claws? It’s like people who are para and quadriplegic; there is significant atrophy of the muscles and soft tissues of the joints.
The fact that there is a whole crowd of people and not one of them is either aware or concerned about this shows all I need to know about the ignorance of the ecology, animal itself and ethics of a situation such as this one 🙄 People - amiright?
Louie after the first night being free...
Louie: Take me back home please it's scary out here... And I miss the drama free food...
OH MY GOD ARE YOU DUMB THEY DON'T HUNT AND ALSO THE GODDAMN LOBSTER LIVED 100 YEARS BEFORE CAPTURE SO IT KNOWS HOW TO LIVE!
Louie has probably been farting in that lobster tank for decades, stewing up the same water the other shellfish drink and eat in...essentially flavoring the food at that fine establishment with his secret sauce....Mamma Mia!
Under that tank is a filtration system and tanks have beneficial bacteria that breaks down the toxic parts of the waste. Also water changes happen.
I read the title wrong thinking I was going to see a lobster come out of a clam after 20 years XD
Loved how Leon the lobster taught us all commenters about the aftermath of longevity of captivity. People releasing a lobster back into it's habitat, without even thinking even it's long age would deteriorate it.
Cute story now run a story on how the lobster died quickly after being released.
If they just threw him back in then he probably didn't do very well, most salt water fish and crustaceans need to be acclimated gradually for at least a few days because of the change in salinity and various bacteria and such that is in the water. They won't tell you how many lobsters die within a few weeks of capture if they are not eaten and the older they get the harder it usually is to acclimate. He was lucky the first time, now having to worry about finding his own food and predators? His chances are pretty slim...
meh I have seen many 100 year old lobsters in mpa or marine protected areas.
Not to mention the thing had on rubber bands for decades. Its pinch strength is probably non functioning. Also it wouldnt know what predators to look out for being in a tank forever.
I was thinking about the fact he'd need to gradually adjust to the water too(not just claws banded & not being used to hunting for/finding food anymore)..Too many factors were not taken into acct..Not a second thought about salinity,ph,temp.,bacteria,parasites,predators/a good location to release him where he could hide,& what about if he'll go thru molting too...This video just stressed me out (instead of made me feel good like the reporters intended it to do)to say the least!
why did you use footage from istanbul, turkey, instead of hempden, maine?
They have no way of actually knowing how old this lobster is. When it molts anything that could have given an approximate of age is left with the old shell. They can only guess at a lobsters age by it's weight. But that is subjective because it depends on many factors as it grows. The amount of food it gets, the health of the animal, the health of the environment etc.
Funny to think Lobsters were served in prisons, as they were thought of the cockroaches of the sea 😂
Fazbear Security now they hella expensive
same thing with salted herrings, turkeys, caviar, oysters, etc etc etc
Fazbear Security that was shrimp
the good guy and lobster
Fazbear Security that's because they used to be all over beaches but not anymore
Could you imagine the pain that lobster was in after he took those bands off after all those years
*wonders if they at least checked if the lobster could use it's claws after decades in bands. :/ Before they tossed it back in the water to fend for itself at 100+ yrs.
They needed to make sure this lobster had full use of its claws before releasing it. Otherwise it will likely starve or die in a fight. Eating food that is already dead and dropped in a tank is one thing. Trying to catch live food that doesn't want to be caught is another.
I'm totally ok with eating the lobsters that are caught. I do have a problem making someone a hero who keeps it in a tank for 20 plus years then releases it to die as a publicity stunt.
So, This is Larry backstory before he became safeguard and met spongebob.
Ariel Juano lifeguard*
Wow, I never knew lobsters can live so long! I feel bad for Louie since you wonder can he survive after being in a tank for so long?
He was probably praying for death the whole time.
He got caught in the same area within a couple of weeks. Someone caught a 22lb lobster in the same area of the release. He was cooked.
@@JustTheFactsYall The chances of them being the same are almost none. This one here probably died within the first days. If the dysfunctional claws and loss of food pathfinding didn’t kill it, the molting would have.
@@cherylmcelveen2817 His claws were closed for 20 years.also molting problem since he is 132year old!!!this lobster was born in 18th century!damn!0 chance of survival in ocean world.
Oof. It's a nice thought but after 20 years captivity and having his claws banded for that long, there's no way he's not going to die super fast :c
If his large claws were in rubberbands they wont work
These idiots just sent this lobster to his death... Shouldve just provided him with a large beautiful aquarium. Or if you must send him into the wild, at least tag him with a tracker so you know he is still alive.
monty fresh: That's the 1st thought that came to me.
Lobster isn't human. Let nature take its course, thats the best kindness to offer. Or let the Lobster build its own aquarium
Ageof Aquarius ahahaha that’s your own comment bruh.
Don't think he would survive in the wild. 😥
nothsim i am also afraid that he will not be able to catch food alone :-(
Nah he'll be fine
plot twist, it got caught again and is back in their restaurant for eternity.
He probably died right after cuz of shock of changes in environment....poor Louis what a fucked up live to have ..
Grabbel Ton not to mention that if it survives the sudden change of environment it wont have an idea of how to survive in the wild it will be some easy prey to anything like a goliath wich you can find almost anywhere
JRRnotTolkien THEMOREYOUKNOW
Actually lobsters have the highest survival rate after being released into the wild of all marine animals
IgniusTheMad after being in a fish tank for 20 years where it's learned not to fear larger strange creatures?
nick peter yes I am well aware of this I was just stating he has a better chance of living since he is a lobster and not a fish
That things was alive at the end of the mf civil war goddamn.
@@Felice_Enellen either way that thing has been through some history
at the end of the civil war... you mean the American civil war that ended in 1865? lol
I mean kind of, but more near the 1890s.
So what is stopping someone from having a giant free meal now? Probably didn't last longer than a few days out in the water before someone brought him up and had a meal.
He should have been placed in a large aquarium tank without those rubber bands.... If they cared for it as much as they claimed, then those bands would have been removed a long time ago.
Those people are a prime example of why alien’s won’t talk to us
Anyone else get stressed out watching them holding Louie out of water? I wonder if the two lobsters survived? It seems like it would have been a shock to go from tank water to open water.
Probably would’ve result in some sort of shock 😐
terrible to release the lobster, most likely a meal by some other fisherman or another animal
C T, I’d rather another animal ate him than for him to be boiled alive. At least that is nature doing what it’s supposed to do. Eat and be eaten.
kroakie4 So I guess us boiling the lobster to eat it is not ‘eating’ and not the way of nature?
@@kroakie4 you'd rather another animal eat him alive instead of being properly disposed of and then boiled? (not boiled alive)
pretty messed up
Milk, boiling an animal alive isn’t the way nature would do it. We humans have invented many ways of doing things that can only be attributed to us as a species. No other animal puts another animal in a pot of boiling water to kill it.
@@kroakie4 who said i was gonna boil the lobster, i would just instant kill head then chop him up and deep fry it or oven him 😁🦞
And thats how Louie, otherwise known as Larry, has met spongebob.
They should have got an aquarium for the lobster, Pretty much have a restaurant mascot. Would be cool for people to look at the lobster that is older then they will ever be.
It won't be able to adapt and will likely just die. Good job.
Well at least it will die in the place where it belonged to once upon a time.
Happy Gillmore it had lived about a 100 years outside. The tank
Lobster works on instinct, he dont need to adapt at all
Bad move, Louie will probably drop dead after he isn't fed after a week or two, since he never really hunted or sought food in the wild...
Miohunter they dont.
Miohunter lobsters don't hunt! they eat dead things off the bottom of the ocean
He did for 100 years
He was in captivity for so long that he might have died when he was released. They should have gave him his own large tank with his claws freed.
Larry should have gone to a aquarium where he would be safe for the rest of his life
Why would you leave an alive animal(crustacean) in a cramped tank for 20 years?
Yes it is indeed barbaric.
What they don't say is that he was caught again 3 days later... RIP
French Doge rly
By the restaurant that’s a 1/2 mile away. He was good.
TF, thought he lived in a clam so i clicked but turns out it lived in a clam bar
I feel like a lobster fisherman caught him not long after release
I hope you took the bands off his claws!
webyourstuff1
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webyourstuff1 ❤❤❤❤❤❤😍😍😍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. I thought the SAME THING. But it looks as tho they are off in the boat ❤
They are still on look at 3:59
webyourstuff1 yeas the photos show it
"They were on him so long, we just thought they were part of him."
Should have been donated to a zoo. The Lobster has lived in a tank for 20 years where its fed regularly and does not live in fear of predators. It would NOT survive if released back into the wild.
COUGH COUGH HOW WOULD 100 YEARS OF SURVIVAL BE FORGOTTEN
@@SirCheeseEater WHY ARE YOU TYPING IN UPPERCASE? ARE YOU YELLING AT SOMEONE? IT'S THE SECOND COMMENT FROM YOU WHERE YOU ARE SHOUTING. Asking for a friend.
There's an Octapus out there who would gladly have him for dinner.
2:14 i like how this is a wholesome lobster story and this is just here haha