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To: stacytec

Again, no, they don't have a brain. The central ganglion has a bulb behind the lobster's eyes that principally houses the nerve bundles that handle vision. The processes that make up this section of the central ganglion account for 60% of the weight of the central ganglion. In other words, what gets mistaken for a 'brain" is the optic nerves! Incidentally, there are no receptors that can handle much beyond vision cues. I know. I looked for them. For 2 years.

Also, the Lobster Institute is made up of scientists, not marketing people or lobstermen.


98 posted on 06/18/2006 5:24:20 PM PDT by capt.P (Hold Fast! Strong Hand Uppermost!)
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To: capt.P

I stand corrected, my original statement was based on knowledge collected from a biology class 15 years ago. I just did some googling and learned about how autonomous the ganglion are in lobsters. What surprises me is that there is a lot of literature and diagrams on the net that still refer to the central ganglion as a brain. The anatomists, biologists and zoologists need to get together and get the definitions straight on what a brain really is.


100 posted on 06/20/2006 10:44:05 AM PDT by stacytec (Nihilism, its whats for dinner)
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