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enThe Pistol Shrimp - Sonic Weaponry
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<span>The Pistol Shrimp - Sonic Weaponry</span>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Alpheid shrimp are a type of snapping shrimp, which have a specialized claw to create a blast of pressure to stun or kill their prey. This motion can also create <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminescence">sonoluminescence</a>, a burst of light from a collapsing cavitation bubble. While the light is not visibile to the naked eye, the pistol shrimp is the only known organism to create light in this way. They are also among the loudest critters in the ocean, competing with whales for the amount of noise they create. Enjoy this unneccessarily melodramatic, but still very cool, video:</p>
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<p>* Some other notable features of snapping shrimp. Some have been known to share burrows with gobies in a symbiotic relationship. The crustacean does the digging and the gobey serves as an early warning sign for danger.</p>
<p>* Some species of the genus <em>Synalpheus</em> exhibit large scale social behavior much like insects, with a queen, workers and soldiers living in colonies of hundreds.</p>
<p>* Mr. Snappy and friends are known to transform their puny claw into their "<a href="http://www.it-france.info/newss/upload/uploads/street_fighter_II_snes_hadoken.jpg">hadoken</a>" claw when the original is removed. </p>
<p>* Alpheid shrimp are the most delicious of all sonoluminescent animals!</p>
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<p>You had me at 'sonoluminescense!' </p>
<p>This reminds me of that Japanese movie where the guy swings down his sword and the entire earth is sliced in front of him. VERY DragonballZ!</p>
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<div class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Mantis Shrimp apparently create somnoluminescence as well. There's stunning footage <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/77">here</a>.</p>
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<div class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>This ALSO reminds me of the Muppet Show skit where pistol-wielding lobsters show up to rescue their friend from the Swedish Chef.</p>
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<div class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Mantis shrimp are way cooler.</p>
<p><a href="http://mike16b.homestead.com/files/mantisowned.jpg">http://mike16b.homestead.com/files/mantisowned.jpg</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7iUmdUhGU8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7iUmdUhGU8</a></p>
<p>I'm probably a little biased, but so what?!</p>
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<div class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>So i gotta ask where was that filmed? Because it looked like that that ROV was wandering through a victorian house dumped mostly intact in a body of water. </p>
<p>And personally i'm a big fan of the Pistol Prawn, or is that the same thing as this guy?</p>
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<div class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Correction, that is the same as this snapping hadoken claw guy. Hmm it seems i need to update my biological knowledge since i'm still kinda running off my old David Attenborough : the Living Planet series and it's ilk.</p>
<p>Well that's why i read this blog.</p>
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<div class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>oh yes the temperature of the SUN, no doubt.</p>
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<div class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p><i>oh yes the temperature of the SUN, no doubt.</i></p>
<p>Well, actually the temperature due to the cavitation is given in the <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6855/full/413477a0.html">Nature article on pistol shrimp</a> is given as "at least 5,000 K" and a few checks seems to give sun surface temperatures about 5,700 K, so it seems in the ballpark if you mean the surface of the sun only.</p>
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