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Actually lobsters skeletons are do on the outside in order to fight off natural predators such as the hippopotamus (latin name unknown) whose mouths can open to 150 degree angles. The lobster has a very small mouth only opening to about three millimeters for to use their armored bodies to defend against such voracious attacks.

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