(CNN) — A rare blue lobster was saved after being sent to an Ohio zoo for preservation rather than cooked by a restaurant that recognized its uniqueness.
A publication from the Akron Zoo made in Facebook On Sunday, he says, the Red Lobster employee who found a blue lobster in a delivery to the Cuyahoga Falls restaurant acknowledged how rare these creatures are.
About 1 in 2 million lobsters is blue, according to the zoo. The blue shell is due to a genetic abnormality.
An employee of the Akron Zoo collects lobster from the Red Lobster restaurant.
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Red Lobster staff named the blue lobster Clawde as the restaurant’s mascot, and contacted the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which then approached the zoo.
“Our animal care personnel were able to quickly take action and prepare a new home for him,” the zoo said in Facebook.
Clawde has her new home in Akron Zoo.
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“Clawde is acclimatizing to his new home here at the Akron Zoo, in a special tank that his care team has named ‘Clawde’s Man Cave,'” he explained.
The zoo said Clawde is housed in her Komodo Kingdom building, which is currently closed to the public due to the coronvirus pandemic.
And although the discovery is very rare, it is far from the first time that a colored lobster has been found.
In May 2019, a Massachusetts restaurant found a blue lobster in a shipment and took it to the local aquarium. A few months later, a fisherman in Maine caught a rare cotton candy colored lobster not once, but twice. And just a month later, another fisherman in the area caught a red and black lobster, a find of one in 50 million.
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