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Category: Organisms • Science
Posted on: October 23, 2006 9:33 AM, by PZ Myers
Physiologists have been studying the activity of shrimp on a treadmill—the movie is charming, especially if you like an excess of whirling limbs.
You can tell it's not a Bally's ad by the absence of lycra and proudly outthrust breasts.
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Comments
I eagerly await the followup study with crawfish.
Posted by: MJ Memphis | October 23, 2006 9:41 AM
After a few seconds I started drooling. I guess I am hungry. Better go eat. Perhaps some shrimp.
Posted by: coturnix | October 23, 2006 9:48 AM
That's not a shrimp: it's someone trying to keep up with a comment thread here.
Posted by: Andrew Brown | October 23, 2006 10:35 AM
Cute, especially with the William Tell Overture playing in my head as soundtrack.
Posted by: Buffalo Gal | October 23, 2006 11:01 AM
Cute, especially with the William Tell Overture playing in my head as soundtrack.
Posted by: Buffalo Gal | October 23, 2006 11:03 AM
Looks more like swimming than running, if you ask me. It hardly moved its legs at all.
Posted by: Viscous Wizard | October 23, 2006 11:41 AM
` Shrimps are crunchy.
Posted by: Spoony Quine | October 23, 2006 2:46 PM
But are they are happy as hamsters?
Posted by: Joel Sax | October 23, 2006 3:13 PM
Nah, if you want breasts, you've gotta put a chicken on a treadmill.
Ok, that was only funny in my head. *sigh*
Posted by: Swintah | October 23, 2006 5:11 PM
I just had to watch it while playing OK GO's Here it goes again.
Posted by: The Science Pundit | October 23, 2006 6:02 PM
PETA is going to get on their case for mistreating shrimp. It may be their next poster guy.
Posted by: bernarda | October 24, 2006 3:55 AM
Erm - how do you get the thing to play (without paying) - or even at all?
Posted by: G. Tingey | October 24, 2006 5:39 AM
Erm - how do you get the thing to play (without paying) - or even at all?
By visiting youtube.
Here
Posted by: Graculus | October 24, 2006 8:27 AM
Sheesh. Here I am on the gulf coast, a shrimp lover, and I haven't been buying shrimp from the flea market dealers who sell it for about a dollar a bucket. What's wrong with me?
Of course, I don't actually know how to cook any of the non-breaded species of shrimp.
Posted by: craig | October 24, 2006 8:42 AM
And it shows up in bunny only a day later:
http://bunny.frozenreality.co.uk/index.php?id=750
Posted by: Evan Murdock | October 24, 2006 9:11 AM
The shrimp is cool, but November is cuter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peLD2vlxRM0
Posted by: Mary | October 24, 2006 12:33 PM