Mantis
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So you're a giant
mantis
and you've been hanging out in the arctic for a while, and you're tired of Eskimos hitting you with snowballs.
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Consider the
mantis
shrimp.
In its softened condition, a
mantis
shrimp couldn’t withstand a fight– which is why we can be confident that its behavior is a bluff.
Biologists have even noticed that its bluffs are tactical: newly molted
mantis
shrimp are more likely to bluff against smaller rivals, who are especially likely to be driven away.
It would seem that instead of just threatening reflexively, the
mantis
shrimp is swiftly gauging the situation and predicting others’ behavior, to get the best result.
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