Cannibal lobsters caught on camera in US

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The face of a young lobster.

Big, hungry lobsters have been recorded eating other lobsters in the wild for the first time.

Cannibalism
  • Eating an animal of the same species is called cannibalism

  • In some species of spider and scorpion it is quite common

It's already known that lobsters attack and eat each other if kept in a confined space.

But nobody thought it really happened out in the wild until researchers in the USA caught it on camera.

Small lobsters were seen on a special infrared camera being eaten by bigger lobsters in the night.

One of the reasons could be due to a rise in the number of lobsters in the Gulf of Maine.

Image caption,

The unlucky lobster shown by the arrow was eaten by the bigger one