A lobster has been observed catching a crab, dragging it back to its home, and burying it like a dog buries a bone. For the next few nights the lobster snacks on the crab instead of going hunting. An opportunist, a lobster will also eat another lobster if given the chance. Captive lobsters become especially cannibalistic, which is why they must be banded in a lobster pound or separated in individual compartments in a lobster hatchery. However, cannibalism has not been obbserved in the wild.
Predators M any animals, especially humans, eat lobsters.
After humans, cod are probably the lobster's principal enemy, followed by other bottom dwelling fishes, such as flounder, sculpins, wolffish, eels, rock gunnels, crabs, and seals. Even raccoons have been known to raid coastal lobster pounds at low tide. A Lobster's Neighbors A fter their first month or so of life, lobsters settle down on the ocean floor and become bottom dwellers. Crevices in rocks, cobble bottoms, and kelp provide good hiding places for lobsters which like to hunker down during the day. As a result of being harvested for their roe, as uni for the Japanese market, sea urchin populations have decreased, and fields of kelp have once again flourished.