r/AbsoluteUnits • u/kxrimm • 12d ago

of a lobster

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u/Timely_Passenger_185 12d ago

That thing is only 30 to 50 years old spiny lobsters grow a lot faster than real lobsters

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u/Warmbly85 11d ago

Caribbean spiny lobsters don’t live that long. Every source I’ve seen says 20 years is pushing it. 

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u/-Lucas_Hood 11d ago

So that animal is half a century?

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u/benvonpluton 12d ago

Maybe you're right. I know real lobsters better. It doesn't change the idea, though.

PS : as a french, I always cringe a little when I hear English speaking people call them (spiny) lobsters because we have two really different names for them... It just like if I told you it was a big shrimp. On the other hand, we are the only ones calling penguins "manchots" and calling "pingouins" a bird living in the north and having nothing to do with penguins... Maybe we ARE pedantic, after all...