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Discovery of Yellow Lobster in Canada Is a Black Swan Event
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by Jon Azpiri | June 11, 2009 at 02:03 pm
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Forget about black swans. If you want to see a true rarity, check out the yellow lobster at Arnold's Lobster and Clam Bar in Eastham, MA.
The seven-and-a-half pound lobster named Fiona was originally caught off the coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her yellow shell makes her something of a rarity. Some say that she is about one in 30 million.
Fiona suffers from a rare genetic mutation that turned her shell yellow. The bright color of her shell also makes it hard for her to hide from predators.
"The odds of catching them [yellows] as they move around the bottom are like the odds of going out into a football field and finding a dime that someone lost 80 years ago," he said. "The blue lobster is still rare, but we get them more often."
Even though she lives in a restaurant, don't expect her to end up on anyone's dinner plate.
"Gosh no!" Nickerson said. "That would be like steaming a Rembrandt."
Yellow lobsters are far more rare than blue lobsters. Around one in two million lobsters are blue due to a genetic defect that produces an excessive amount of protein.
Such rarities exist throughout the animal kingdom. The black swan has been made famous as of late thanks to economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His best-selling book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable talks about how rare events, such as the discovery of a black swan, are impossible to predict. Thanks to the popularity of Taleb's book, hard-to-predict events, like last year's economic crisis, are often referred to as black swans.
In honor of Fiona, perhaps Taleb should refer to such rare events as yellow lobsters.
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at 10:22 on June 12th, 2009
Black Swans and Yellow Lobsters! Coniunctio. A lot of symbolism in both .Put these two symbols together you have what jungians call "in a syzygy" a yoked together pair and then you have the combination, CONIUNCTIO...THE TWO FACES OF THE GOD - IMAGE..In Jungian work a coniunctio . The coniunctio is a long story of great interest in depth psychology. It
concerns Individuation.
For primitives cold-blooded creatures often symbolize immortality and are worshipped as gods.
The Egyptian scarab is an example. The golden lobster amulet from Costa Rica is charged with the same numinous intensity evoked by the Tarot Crawfish.
The crawfish, far from barring the Hero's way, seems now a stable rock to support his faith, a stepping stone to help him make the dangerous crossing.--
Perhaps you may be at this stage on your journey for creating and finding this interesting imagery...or someone reading this. : )
One more lobster story . I read years ago a wonderful inspirational article that I could not find. The point of the story is in order for the lobster to grow larger it must shed it's shell .This period of time makes it vulnerable so it must lay very low from danger. Similar to as when we grow we must sometimes separate ...create boundaries when we are in this space.I can't tell it as well as she did.. I saved the article for years. I found it when I was counseling in a magazine but a search I could not find.