I love news about odd lobster stuff!
Approx 1% of humans are born intersex - similar to the rate of celiac disease in many countries (just as a benchmark). Penises are usually secretly cut off. This is something the medical profession/industry does not talk about. But it helps put the rarity of intersex non-human animals into perspective (I can’t comment on the two colours in this case)
The study referring to that 1-2% figure (Fausto-Sterling et al.) misrepresents the definition of intersex and is off by at least an order of magnitude. Real figures are closer to 1 in 8000.
Edit for source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3813612
Thanks for the feedback. I’m going to delete my comment because I don’t have time to read around this and don’t want to spread false info
So would this lobster be infertile, able to produce eggs, able to inseminate, or both of the latter two?
