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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by TeeMassive on Sunday November 21, 2021 @08:54PM (#29301860)
It's more about how much they look like human babies.

Species with more neotenic traits get more protections: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/janimalethics.2.1.0006

Sure lobsters do not look like human babies, but more than ants.

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by Rastonbury on Sunday November 21, 2021 @09:11PM (#29301958)
You are saying lobsters look more like babies than ants? Do you mean in terms of size, because neither have any similarities to a baby...
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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by TeeMassive on Sunday November 21, 2021 @09:23PM (#29302022)
Yes and no. Yes they are more of the same size. Visually ants are little dots on the ground. Lobsters also have something that looks more like hands than ants do.
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