What Is A Lobster?

Animals with still much unexplored brain power face many struggles in captivity. In ‘Consider the Lobster’ Walace explain the process of getting the lobster to its fate of being cooked alive. This process is similar to the one of capturing orcas from the wild and keeping them in unnaturally small spaces. On page 5 Walace says “If you’re tilting it from a container into the steaming kettle the lobster will sometimes try to cling to the container’s sides or even to hook its claws over the kettle’s rim like a person trying to keep from going over the edge of a roof.” This explains the lobsters struggle in a container, from which it’s crammed against other lobsters, and its attempt to stay away from the boiling water.

David Foster Wallace, author of "Consider the Lobster", asks his audience to explore their personal thoughts on the choice to cook lobsters alive and the reasoning behind it. As he explains in his passive aggressive standpoint, the biological evidence behind the level of suffering of a lobster being cooked alive, he entices the audience by planting a grain of curiosity of what really is the "right" way to cook a lobster. Wallace takes a stand against lobster abuse by manipulating the readers’ emotion behind the worth of an animal’s life and the preference of cooking a lobster. Wallace uses pathos in many ways through his essay to appeal to his audience's emotions by discussing the problem behind cooking alternatives, explaining what he knows

David Foster Wallace’s essay, “Consider the Lobster” efficiently shows readers his personal views toward Maine Lobster Festival and lobster in general. Wallace does this by giving the readers facts and his own opinions in lengthy footnotes. Wallace points out facts about lobster that makes readers feel sentimental toward eating lobster by the end of the personal essay. Wallace defines lobster in-depth to show readers that they are living creatures and people shouldn’t eat them. The author uses a contradicting title, “Consider the Lobster” which suggest that readers should consider how the lobster feels about the process of eating them, such as cooking them alive.

The cephalopodor octopus is a marine organism that inhabits many diverse regions of the ocean. Its food source consists of crabs, small fish, clams, mussels and other marine animals. The octopus is a predatory animal and has developed many skills to aid in its survival in the environment it has adapted to.

The sandy shores of beaches can be considered as a very harsh environment to live in (Ted Klenk, 1999). Survival in such a habitat requires an organism to withstand strong wave and current action, tidal rise and fall, unstable substrate, heavy predation and wide variations in salinity and temperature (The Otter Island Project). Any organism found in this type of harsh environment is specialized and highly adapted (The Otter Island Project).

Green crabs are found in shallow ocean waters and they have a preference for sheltered areas. They are an aggressive and territorial crab species (CBC, 2012). Although this species is known as the “green crab”, they are not always green. In fact, this species of crab can range from a variety of colors such as red, orange, brown, blue and yellow; the colors often depend on when the crab last exuviated. Due to the fact that green crabs cannot be distinguished solely by color, they are often confused with other crab species such as the rock crab. A few ways to distinguish the European green crab from other crabs is by 5 pointy spines which are located on the front end of the carapace on either side of the eye as cited by GOV, (2013) and 3 rounded lobes located between the eyes. European green crabs are also distinguished by their claws of different sizes and the way the tips of its back legs are pointed, flattened and hairy. A European green crab generally doesn’t surpass 4 inches (appx. 100 mm) and an average green crab is approximately 2.5 inches (appx. 63 mm) (Peters et al. 2004). Male green crabs typically range from 40-70mm whereas female green crabs ranged from 40-65mm. If these crabs, male or female, surpassed their average size they were classified as old adults (Yamada and Gillespie, 2008). The adult green crab can survive out of the water for

The tortoises weigh a lot, the crabs are extremely strong, and the fish come in many different shapes and sizes. This paragraph feels a lot like a zoo, filled with animals and wonders. The giant tortoises can weigh up to 250 kilograms. The giant tortoises are also herbivores. When they poop on the ground, a certain grass called “turtle turf” grows. The coconut crabs are another animal. Their claws are so strong, that they can crack coconuts. They can also be as long as a meter as well. They are usually out in the early morning and the evening because it isn’t as hot, which could make them cook in their shells. Fish and octopi live in the coral reefs. The fish can range from ferocious to snappers to butterfly fish. The giant groupers and the octopi lurk in every crack and crevice. The animals complete the island. From tortoises to crabs to birds. The turtles weigh 250 kilograms, and the crabs can crack coconuts. The animals are unique, beautiful, and interesting. If these animals don’t go extinct, Aldabra will be full of

During the Cambrian Period there was an explosion of life forms. Most of these were in the water. Many animals with no backbones lived in the shallow seas. These animals were invertebrates.

Lobsters are crustaceans that have been on earth for more that 480 million years and their average lifespan is 70 years. Their scientific name is Homarus americanus. The word lobster is an old english word that means spider. Lobsters are benthic creatures that are found in all of the world’s oceans, brackish water, and freshwater. A lobsters brain is located in its throat and its teeth are in its stomach. They have poor eyesight but an amazing sense of taste and smell. They mainly feed on fish, clams, sea stars, sea urchins, mussels and sometimes even other lobsters. Scientists have two theories on lobster cannibalism. The first theory is that rising water temperatures are causing lobsters to be more aggressive. The second theory is that lobsters

Imagine that a huge wave crashes down on you. Then it drags you back into the ocean. On your way you pass by an animal that is clinging on for dear life. In order to survive in these harsh conditions, animals need adaptations. An ecosystem is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. The California Spiny Lobster lives in the neritic e zone which is in between 200 meters and 0 meters. It is located on the continental shelf. They like living in coral reefs and the ocean ground. In order to survive in the neritic zone with predators, sea floor hiders, and other environmental threats, animals need adaptations.

Another article about the higher temperature on the oceans. According to this article, New England’s lobsters is increasing above the normal average. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission reports that this phenomenon is a result from the higher temperature under the oceans. They inform that higher temperature lead to speeding up their metabolism. When the water may get too warm, it is put the animals under stress. The writer is Carl Zimmer, and explained about the reason of the un-normal increasing of the lobsters in New England. That can prove that climate change has a big impact on the marine life. The article is support my research that climate change cause an extinct of the marine creatures, by using the Atlantic States Marine

In “Where Have All the Exploiters Gone? Co-Management of the Maine Lobster Industry”, author James M. Acheson validates Garret Hardin’s logic in “Tragedy of the Commons” that property rights do in fact help conserve resources. Acheson also refutes basic principles set forth by Hardin that users of open access resources have no vested interest in preserving resources over the long term and are unable to generate regulating mechanisms.

Lobsters are the freshest food source that there is and this is why they have such a high appeal. They are taken straight from the water and they are kept alive even as they are put into the boiling hot water. This treatment of animals is just wrong. It is absolutely wrong. David Foster Wallace, the author of “Consider the Lobster”, states, “the lobster…behaves very much as you or I would behave if we were plunged into boiling water” (506). We would not place a human into boiling hot water, alive or at all, so why must we do that to animals? It is a wrong and inhumane thing for us to do to other living creatures that share this world with us.

To begin, I par-boiled my lobster on high for the allotted amount of time before removing them from the heat, and then shocking them in ice cold water. Following this step, I put them in the refrigerator in order for me to make them the following day. The next day I began by removing the lobster meat

Cnidarians (or coelenterates), including sea anemones, jellyfish, and corals, are built mostly of sheets of cells, and they exploit the large surface area of the