Lobster Hygiene: Healthy animals quick to spot another’s ills

Caribbean spiny lobsters somehow detect and shun potential roommates carrying a virus, even before the infected lobster can pass along the disease, a research team reports.

CRUSTACEAN QUARANTINE. Caribbean spiny lobsters’ detection of diseased individuals like this one may explain the low prevalence of a fatal virus. Behringer

These lobsters, Panulirus argus, often share hiding places.