Reproduction
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Before a male lobster can mate, he must first fight the other competing males to prove that he is dominant. When this happens, the female will begin to follow him around and eventually molt. While her skin is still soft, the male will deposit packets of sperm on the underside of the female which will later be used the to externally fertilize her eggs as they are laid. She keeps her eggs in spinnerets. The larvae will grow and the hatch after about ten months as baby lobsters.