Journey into the hole crawfish

• Journey into the hole lobster

Diving into the clear water in the hot Asian sun, I was suddenly in a moment was in the mysterious kingdom. Sink usually without the tube, so that the first and second intuitively recoiling, I said a couple of gentle water.

The sun makes the way hundreds of whiskers bristled at me out of their holes, just in the place where I reached out, grabbed her by the thinking reef.

Lobsters. Very similar to lobster, but without claws. They call them surly and not sociable.

Despite a strong chitinous shell, prickly growths on the head and chest, 10 spiny legs, these guys are practically defenseless and forced to live in isolation, hiding among rocks, under stones, among the coral reefs and underwater plants.

In our neighborhood there are semi-pools. Their owner fenced off part of the retaining wall of the reef.

The wall with the technical holes, so that the water running in the creeks.

hundreds of lobsters, sponges, fish, shells, corals, crabs live in the basin. Such own ecosystem.

Pop-feed in the morning. Usually, it's just chopped fine rybeha, bought up from the fishermen.

All sell in their own cafe, well, themselves eat. Hungry - poshel- dove ...

So the owner

And this is - is another master of the reef. Such a huge two - they do not catch.

Incidentally, the lobster can grow up to 50 centimeters. And until now, science is not known exactly how much they can spend. Maybe we can learn in this handsome. Here he lived for 5 years. By the way, this is the age when they can begin to multiply.

And by the hands of his mustache and pulled. But it is impossible to catch them so. Vc can escape and pagurian if not managed to escape, then he rested all ten feet in the hole so that it is not pulled out.

To be honest, I took a mustache. Impact force is such that you can think in the underwater kingdom of how to harness horses, one problem. They go okay, but they swim tail first;)

When reading about the lobster, I came across an interesting way agile in their natural environment.

Reminds hunting burrowing animals with a taxi, only dogs played by octopus that - a natural enemy of shellfish, lobster and so by all means to avoid contact with him. Training octopus can not be, so it is quite enough for a successful hunt to catch octopus and lobsters display it, or, trailers octopus with a hook on the rope, put it in the shelter of cancer. As a rule, lobster immediately pops out and falls into the hands of the hunter, of course, if the latter is able, as the lobster flight always swift.

Reading this, I never imagined you first need to catch and do not mutilate octopus.

Here this example, we met in the Dominican Republic.

Then he will start to attack you himself, wrapped around the hand and choke you ... And it at this point in the play off lobster ... And it's all under water. I think on such hunting is obviously not affected lobster and octopus;)

But we do not hunt, consider ... Chasing big hit in shells kingdom. Incidentally edible.

A lobster all sit in their burrows. I climbed on top of the fence and watch as they grew bolder. Sometimes gently run across the stones. If the hiding place is already occupied, then the case of clashes. Next time going to go into an ambush, shoot. Their fights are more like dancing. By the way, lobster dance another mystery of nature

In winter, in a natural environment, day by day they are becoming the coast, more and more. Where there are lobsters, they are in the vast expanses of the ocean, why going to an incredible amount in a limited space? And the excitement reached its limit of lobsters and lobster most impatient suddenly puts his long whiskers on his back and the other leaning on his front pair of legs, he begins to follow the leader overall. In turn, for it clings to the third lobster. The journey begins. To join the procession of all the individuals from nearby shelters.

With shallow waters, chains are sent into the open ocean, gradually going deeper, deeper and deeper, until you disappear in the darkness of the abyss. On the day, occasionally making short pauses for rest, lobsters are on the seabed about 12 kilometers. It lasts several days continuous march until the last langustovaya chain is hidden deep in the ocean. Why do lobsters go, what they do in the depths of the ocean and the end of the campaign - still remains a mystery.