bubba the lobster dies after trip to the zoo

Bubba, left, a 22-pound lobster pulled from the waters off Nantucket, Mass., is shown in a tank next to an average 1.5 pound lobster at Wholey's fish market in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, a day before he died at the Pittsburgh Zoo.

Yesterday, Kevin told me about Bubba, a 22-pound lobster estimated to be 50 years old. (Most lobsters weigh 1.5 pounds. ) PETA had even gotten involved, advocating that Bubba should be released back into the wild.

But here is today's sad ending:

Bubba the lobster dies after trip to the zoo
After years of dodging the boiling pot, 22-pounder done in by move

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - He spent decades dodging lobster pots, but in the end, Bubba was done in by a trip to the zoo.

The 22-pound lobster died yesterday at the Pittsburgh Zoo, about a day after he was moved there from a fish market. Bubba died in a quarantine area of the zoo’s aquarium, where he was being checked out to see if he was healthy enough to travel to a Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum.

Experts will examine Bubba to try to figure out why he died, but the owner of the fish market thinks it had to do with the stress of the move. Bob Wholey says lobsters are “very finicky.”

Bubba had spent about a week at Wholey’s Market after being caught off the coast of Massachusetts.

I wonder how they're disposing of the remains ...