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A careful cook prevented an extremely rare lobster from becoming someone’s dinner and donated it to an aquarium.
A cook at the Nordic Lodge restaurant in Rhode Island, USA, prevented an extremely rare lobster from being cooked, and the unusual story has charmed the internet.
The crustacean in question has a genetic mutation that occurs in only one in every 30 million lobsters, affecting its color, which is more orange and classified as golden.
In an interview with The Guardian, Jake Dolbey, the restaurant manager, said the lobster was already in a basket ready to be prepared when one of the cooks separated it after noticing it was different from the others.
The little creature was named Calvin, and later Joel Humphries, the restaurant’s bartender, took it to the Biomes Marine Biology Center, an interactive aquarium that displays marine animals for educational purposes.
Mark Hall, director of the Biomes center, said it took a keen eye to identify Calvin as unique. Golden lobsters are often confused with others that are a slightly darker shade of orange and more common.
Calvin is now living happily and far from the danger of being caught again; the lobster that almost became dinner now impresses aquarium visitors.
On the internet, users praised the restaurant’s attention to the animal and the aquarium for its conservation work and for welcoming the crustacean.
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