{"id":63415,"date":"2010-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/stress-attention-prove-fatal-for-rare-yellow-lobster\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T00:00:00","slug":"stress-attention-prove-fatal-for-rare-yellow-lobster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/08\/stress-attention-prove-fatal-for-rare-yellow-lobster\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress, attention prove fatal for rare yellow lobster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON &#8212; August 13, 2010 &#8212; Efforts to sustain the life of a rare yellow lobster caught in local waters last month ended Tuesday when the crustacean died in a secluded protective tank at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Narragansett Bay campus, where it had been kept since Aug. 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe young male, which weighed one-and-a-quarter pounds and was taken from a trap about three weeks ago by lobsterman Denny Ingram, had been on display at the fishermen\u2019s coop at the state pier in Newport, where visitors flocked to see the rare find.  Scientists estimate it\u2019s coloring as a one in 30-million occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n溏心vlog免费B站 marine research specialist Edward Baker said Ingram\u2019s \u201cintuition was spot-on\u201d that all the attention was dangerous and could lead to the lobster \u201cbeing loved to death.\u201d Ingram requested assistance from 溏心vlog免费B站, and Baker transferred the lobster to a safer site. He cited stress from repeated changes in air temperature and handling as a cumulative problem over several days.<\/p>\n<p><!-- The lobster, Baker said, &ldquo;was stressed to death and past the point of no return before he arrived at the Bay campus to recuperate.&rdquo;\nThe lobster had apparently not eaten for the last several days it was at the coop, Baker said, and appeared droopy and fatigued. --> \u201cWe put him in cooler water, in a tank with an airstone in a dark quiet corner, and gave him some squid and mussel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBut the lobster still did not eat, and was found lifeless in the same spot in which he had initially been placed.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe remains have been placed in a walk-in freezer where other rare marine specimens are kept, and will be preserved. Scientists may examine it in the future.&#13;<br \/>\n<!--8\/16 changed copy to reflect input from one of our researchers that we really don't know how\/why the lobster died to be more -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON &#8212; August 13, 2010 &#8212; Efforts to sustain the life of a rare yellow lobster caught in local waters last month ended Tuesday when the crustacean died in a secluded protective tank at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Narragansett Bay campus, where it had been kept since Aug. 5. &#13; The young male, which weighed one-and-a-quarter pounds and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}