What are the odds?
A pair of “1-in-30 million” orange lobsters were saved Monday from two supermarkets on Long Island — a week after another uber-rare crustacean was rescued from a Hamptons Stop & Shop.
The two female lobsters, dubbed Tangerine and Navel, were sent back into the Long Island Sound for a second chance of life after being stranded in water tanks where they were treated like royalty compared to the rest of the pod, Humane Long Island said Tuesday.
After media coverage highlighting the first orange lobster’s release into the wild last week, calls came in from customers about another two similar-colored crustaceans on Long Island.
“It was delightful to rescue so many back-to-back,” Humane Long Island John Di Leonardo told The Post Tuesday.
One lobster was at a Stop & Shop in East Setauket and another was at Northport Fish & Lobster before the pair were saved, Humane Long Island said.
The lobsters were both fed during their stays in the tanks – unlike their non-orange peers – and the Stop & Shop store even cut its lobster’s bands off her claws, Di Leonardo said.
Human Long Island indicated a hereditary mutation caused the “1-in-30-million orange coloring” of the trio of supermarket lobsters.
“I checked with the stores, all the stores said none of them ever had an orange one before so according to them the rarity holds up,” Di Leonardo said.
Di Leonardo believes the trio of lobsters could have come from the same family because they all were shipped to the different locations around the same time in early July.
Video posted online shows Di Leonardo with the help of his nephew wade into the water to release both back into the sea.
“It always makes me feel good to do this rescue work, but we know it’s just a drop in the bucket,” he said.
“These lobsters are three in a trillion so that’s why we’re trying to drive home the message no one should eat any lobster no matter their coloring.”
