How To Use Mantis shrimp In A Sentence
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Photo Gallery : Marine Marvels A male peacock mantis shrimp plies the seafloor off Papua New Guinea.
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The waters of Bali, Indonesia, are home to this otherworldly creature peacock mantis shrimp ( Odontodactylus scyllarus ) .
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In insects the Orthoptera (especially grasshoppers), and in crustaceans the Decapoda (especially caridean shrimps), Stomatopoda (mantis shrimps) and calanoid Copepoda, are the only groups to far exceed a typically small range.
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Special light-sensitive cells in mantis shrimp eyes perform similar functions to electronic sensors found in the mechanism of a DVD and CD player, the study said.
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Much more on mantis shrimps at The Lurker's Guide to Stomatopods, which describes its other special features such as rolling like a wheel and having sophisticated trinocular vision with 10 types of receptor for detecting colour and polarisation.
Smashing shrimps
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Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 29 weeks 6 days ago beer can in mako stomach mantis shrimp in striper stomach
I caught a channel catfish, about 12lbs, that had a partially digested muskrat in its stomach.
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A lightning-fast predator, the mantis shrimp uses its powerful limbs to smash or spear its prey with a force equivalent to a .22 bullet.
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Mantis shrimps also have an extraordinarily intricate colour vision system - humans have three-colour vision, they have 12-colour.
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More than one unwary diver who has extended the hand of curiosity a little too far has lost a finger to the mantis shrimp's lightning stab - one of the fastest animal movements known.
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Special light-sensitive cells in mantis shrimp eyes perform similar functions to electronic sensors found in the mechanism of a DVD and CD player, the study said.
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The mantis shrimp's elongate, jointed carapace sports stalked eyes, the most complex in the animal kingdom.
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Each eye can move independently and can focus on object with three different areas, giving the mantis shrimp "trinocular vision".
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Few crustaceans hunt prey as a lion or a tiger does, but the mantis shrimp visually selects and stalks its victim.
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Each mantis shrimp eye has trinocular vision allowing them to operate independently.
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Hemisquilla californiensis by Mike Bok — magnified view of a uropod, or tail feather, of mantis shrimp.
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Mantis shrimp skulked liked cats under the jetty, one feasting on a juvenile pufferfish that had strayed too close to its spearing claws.
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Hemisquilla californiensis – magnified view of a uropod, or tail feather, of mantis shrimp.
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Juvenile rockmover wrasse and dwarf scorpionfish, ghost pipefish, razorfish, stonefish, mantis shrimps, snake eels, and the flamboyant anemone hermit crab are frequently seen in this area.
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When mimicking a mantis shrimp, for example, the octopus sits in a burrow with only the eyes and part of the head exposed, and wraps one tentacle around its head to resemble the folded raptorial appendages of the mantis shrimp.
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And mantis shrimp are called mantis shrimp after the praying mantises, which also have a fast feeding appendage.
Sheila Patek clocks the fastest animals
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So, actually, I started working on what's called the mantis shrimp a few years ago because they make sound.
Sheila Patek clocks the fastest animals