What is half blue, half male, half female and tastes good with clarified butter? That would be TikTok’s newest crustacean sensation.
Jacob Knowles, a Maine lobster fisherman with 2.6 million followers on TikTok, showed off the puzzling creature in a video he posted Tuesday, which had been viewed more than 6.3 million times by Monday afternoon.
“This is the coolest lobster I’ve ever seen,” a visibly excited Knowles says in the clip as she displays the multi-colored hermaphrodite lobster.
“Not only is it split 50-50 down its back and it’s blue and normal, but if you look underneath, it’s actually half male, half female,” Knowles explained, manipulating the aquatic animal to reveal both reproductive organs.
The lobsterman added that the blue part of the lobster is male and the brown – or “normal” part – is female.
Fishmonger and owner of Collingwood Seafood in Northshields fish wharf Tony Mc Lean, 38, shows off a rare blue lobster on the Northumberland coast at Seahouses.PA Images via Getty Images
Knowles said that a friend of his had caught the rare creature and gave it to him to show off on TikTok.
“[It’s] very unique lobster. Never seen one like it, never heard of one like it,” Knowles gushed, adding that it might be “one of the rarest lobsters in the Gulf of Maine.”
The chance of finding a bicolor lobster is 1 in 50 million, according to the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute.
Jacob Knowles, a Maine lobster fisherman with 2.6 million followers on TikTok, showed off the puzzling creature in a video he posted last Tuesday. -colored — one side is female.TikTok/@jacob__knowles
Knowles asked her fans to decide whether she should release the lobster or keep it in a vast underwater cage as a “pet” over the winter to see if it can reproduce on its own.
In a follow-up video, which has 4.5 million views, Knowles said that her followers unanimously decided that she should hold the crustacean and see if it can lay eggs.
A naming contest followed, and TikTok users overwhelmingly voted to christen the 1-in-50 million lobster “Bowie,” after the late music icon David Bowie, whose eyes were famously two different colors, and who created the androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
A selection of lobsters at the New England Aquarium (clockwise) blue lobsters, orange lobsters, Halloween lobsters, common lobsters and yellow lobsters. MediaNews Group via Getty Images rare blue lobsters are seen unloading the Dartmouth Crab Company fishing vessel MFV William Henry II on January 22, 2021 in Weymouth, England. Getty Images
Knowles’ next video documents building a large metal enclosure, similar to an oversized lobster trap, for his new pet, and inspecting it.
The fisherman warned that “there’s a small chance” that Bowie won’t make it, but he promised that the unique lobster would be safer from predators in a cage.
Knowles also called on aquariums or science centers that might be interested in adopting Bowie to contact him.
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