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Mantis in sentence

19 examples of Mantis in a sentence

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.
And if folding a single praying mantis from a single uncut square wasn't interesting enough, then you could do two praying mantises from a single uncut square.
So, actually, I started working on what's called the mantis shrimp a few years ago because they make sound.
This is a recording I made of a mantis shrimp that's found off the coast of California.
And this is a spearing mantis shrimp, or stomatopod.
Now, the other type of mantis shrimp is the smasher stomatopod, and these guys open up snails for a living.
So this is a mantis shrimp.
And what he showed in mantis shrimp is that they use what's called a "catch mechanism," or "click mechanism."
So the next and final question was, well, how much force does a mantis shrimp produce if they're able to break open snails?
So this is a potent force in fluid systems, and just to sort of take it one step further, I'm going to show you the mantis shrimp approaching the snail.
A giant praying mantis is awakened from its sleep in the artic region and heads south causing havoc.
Before unleashing its full wrath on NYC, the mantis meets its doom at the hands of the armed forces in a New York tunnel.
This movie starts by showing you a map and then explaining radar and it is quite awhile before you ever see the deadly mantis.
You see plenty of fighter plane stock footage and other things, but you won't see much at all of the deadly mantis.
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.
The talented cast are really slumming it here but it does have one funny scene (Hugh Grant and the praying mantis) - pity it's only 30 seconds long.