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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I eagerly await the followup study with crawfish.
After a few seconds I started drooling. I guess I am hungry. Better go eat. Perhaps some shrimp.
That's not a shrimp: it's someone trying to keep up with a comment thread here.
Cute, especially with the William Tell Overture playing in my head as soundtrack.
Cute, especially with the William Tell Overture playing in my head as soundtrack.
Looks more like swimming than running, if you ask me. It hardly moved its legs at all.
` Shrimps are crunchy.
But are they are happy as hamsters?
Nah, if you want breasts, you've gotta put a chicken on a treadmill.
Ok, that was only funny in my head. *sigh*
I just had to watch it while playing OK GO's Here it goes again.
PETA is going to get on their case for mistreating shrimp. It may be their next poster guy.
Erm - how do you get the thing to play (without paying) - or even at all?
Erm - how do you get the thing to play (without paying) - or even at all?
By visiting youtube.
Here
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.
And it shows up in bunny only a day later:
http://bunny.frozenreality.co.uk/index.php?id=750
The shrimp is cool, but November is cuter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peLD2vlxRM0