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Pribnow · 3559 days ago · link · · parent · post: Cheap at sea, pricey on the plate: The voodoo of lobster economics
Arthropods are great at going into a kind of metabolic stasis for long periods of time. They don't have a constantly high-revving metabolism like us and can survive seemingly (to humans) impossible lengths of time without food. It doesn't do them physiological harm in most cases. I'd also take Darrin's comment with a huge grain of salt, it's not a behavior I can find evidence for anywhere other than this article.