Spiny Lobster

Photo: Alessandra Boccabianca · © all rights reserved

Spiny lobsters shelter in the cave's deepest recesses and under overhangs throughout the day, emerging at dusk to forage across the rocky reef outside. They communicate with a stridulating rasp produced by rubbing antennae against the rostrum, an acoustic warning signal used when threatened. Montenegro's cave systems represent important refugia for this commercially exploited species, and populations inside marine protected waters are visibly more abundant than on exposed reefs.