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Mantis shrimps: is there anything they can’t do?

Posted by John S. Wilkins on March 21, 2008
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They see in 12 colours and using polarised light, they move at the speed of a bullet. Go read about them at Not Exactly Rocket Science. Yes, they are the coolest inverts…

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  1. #1 dorid
    March 22, 2008

    yeah, but I bet they can’t really DO THIS…

  2. #2 John S. Wilkins
    March 22, 2008

    Only because nobody’s ever given them one to try.

  3. #3 kevin z
    March 22, 2008

    I see you’ve chosen your side on this battle. I’m only sorry you couldn’t have chosen more wisely. ;p

  4. #4 Ian H Spedding FCD
    March 22, 2008

    Now, if we could just crossbreed them with cuttlefish to give them the latter’s amazing powers of camouflage, we’d have the perfect nautical ninja. They’d be a sort of submarine version of the alien from Predator

  5. #5 Brian English
    March 23, 2008

    I gotta get me a bullet proof aquarium and some of those buggers. Then I can drop in lots of Cephalopods and sent PZ pictures of the ensuing carnage.