Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Great Mucus Wars between immortal lobsters and immortal jellyfish.
The young lobsters eat their unwilling chauffeurs from bottom to top, which must be something of a bummer for the jellyfish, because they have been shown to be capable of the same reverse aging process as another jelly species, making them seemingly ageless. After the smooth fan lobsters are done with their once-immortal meal, they are presumably forced to either walk for themselves or find another moveable feast.
To fight back, jellyfish fling copious quantities of mucus at the phyllosoma — fire enough mucus, and the lobsters will develop potentially fatal bacterial infections. But in an evolutionary tit-for-tat, these lobsters have a means of counteracting the snotty assault: they use one of their five pairs of legs like windshield wipers to constantly clear the mucus from their bodies.
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