一只死于壓力的龍蝦
A giant lobster, saved from the cooking pot by a fishmonger, has died of stress after being exhibited at an aquarium.
Lucky, estimated to be aged around 40, was caught off the Gower Peninsula coastline by a fisherman earlier this week. He was put in the Silent Night Aquarium, in Tenby, instead of the cooking pot but was discovered dead in his new tank. Crowds had gathered at Swansea Market, in south Wales, when Lucky the lobster, who was two feet long and weighed in at 7lbs, appeared on a fish stall.
But fishmonger Christopher Thomas, 20, was so taken with the colossal crustacean he refused to sell and had it transferred to an aquarium instead. Aquarium assistant Mike Batt said: "I could see he was dead the moment he arrived because the water was murky. "To be honest I did not hold out much hope it would survive because it appeared to be ill when it arrived. "We pumped in oxygen to the area around its gills but I think the stress of the last few days was simply too much and it died."
一只年齡大約在40歲左右的大龍蝦在英國高爾半島海岸被一名漁夫捕獲，幸運的是，它的新主人并沒有把它直接放進蒸煮罐里享受美味，而是把它放在一個水桶里，并在幾天后送往水族館。可是，不幸的是，當(dāng)這只兩英尺長、7磅重的巨型龍蝦剛剛被送到水族館后，它就死了。“老實說，我對它能活下去不抱任何希望，因為它看上去生病了。我們在它的腮部周圍區(qū)域用壓力泵為它輸氧，但我想，它在前兩天所受的壓力實在是太大了，它支持不住，所以死了。”龍蝦被捉后，許多人都前往魚市場觀看這只異物，可能正是因為沒見過這么多人，龍蝦一下子被嚇著了。
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