Boy, I'm hungry!!
From "The Secret Life of Lobsters" by Trevor Corson
Given the lobster's ability to project a plume of water forward, or to suck another lobster's plume towards its own nose, Jelle suspected that a peculiar quirk he'd noticed in the lobster's anatomy was more than an evolutionary mishap. The American Lobster urinates not from some posterior region of it's body, but directly out the front of its face. Two bladders inside the head hold copious amounts of urine, which the lobster squirts through and pair of muscular nozzles below its antennae. These powerful streams mix with the gill outflow and are carried some five feet ahead of the lobster in its plume. Quite possibly, lobsters were sensing each other and sending signals - "I beat you up last night, remember?" or "Would you like to mate with me, I'm about to get undressed? - by pissing in each other's faces. {...} lobsters accompanied their most punishing blows during combat by intense squirts of piss at the opponent's face. Perhaps what lobsters were doing when they squirted urine during fights was simply the equivalent of the angry man on the street corner shouting his own name every time he punched his opponent. "This pain goes with this name", the lobsters seemed to be saying, "so remember it well".
We have so much to learn about combat from these tasty tasty beasts.
Given the lobster's ability to project a plume of water forward, or to suck another lobster's plume towards its own nose, Jelle suspected that a peculiar quirk he'd noticed in the lobster's anatomy was more than an evolutionary mishap. The American Lobster urinates not from some posterior region of it's body, but directly out the front of its face. Two bladders inside the head hold copious amounts of urine, which the lobster squirts through and pair of muscular nozzles below its antennae. These powerful streams mix with the gill outflow and are carried some five feet ahead of the lobster in its plume. Quite possibly, lobsters were sensing each other and sending signals - "I beat you up last night, remember?" or "Would you like to mate with me, I'm about to get undressed? - by pissing in each other's faces. {...} lobsters accompanied their most punishing blows during combat by intense squirts of piss at the opponent's face. Perhaps what lobsters were doing when they squirted urine during fights was simply the equivalent of the angry man on the street corner shouting his own name every time he punched his opponent. "This pain goes with this name", the lobsters seemed to be saying, "so remember it well".
We have so much to learn about combat from these tasty tasty beasts.