Mid-Week Mini: Lobsters Taste With Their Feet
In this week’s Mid-Week Mini Episode, we talk how lobsters taste with their feet.
So here’s the deal. If you’ve ever watched a lobster scuttling around the ocean floor, you’ll notice they’re always kind of tapping and feeling their way along with those little legs. Those legs aren’t just for walking — they’re covered in tiny hair-like bristles called chemosensory setae. Basically, each bristle is like a little taste bud. Every time they step on something, they’re getting chemical signals about whether it’s food, danger, or just a boring old rock.
Imagine if you could step on a sandwich and instantly know whether it was peanut butter or ham. That’s a lobster’s life. They don’t taste in the way we do, where flavor is a mix of taste and smell working together. For lobsters, it’s all about detecting chemical cues in the water and on the ocean floor.
And it’s not just their feet — they’ve also got taste sensors on their antennae and their mouths. So lobsters are basically walking around like giant sensory machines, sampling the world with every step. It’s weird, but it makes perfect sense when you live underwater and need to find food quickly.
So yes, the internet says it’s true — lobsters really do taste with their feet. Which kind of makes you wonder what they think of the taste of sand.
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