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Invertebrates like snapping shrimp, fish and marine mammals all use sound.
Consider the mantis shrimp.
Despite being fragile, a newly molted shrimp is actually more likely to threaten intruders, spreading the large limbs it usually uses to strike or stab its opponents.
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.
You can see this shrimp is harassing this poor little guy here, and he'll bat it away with his claw.
And what these shrimp are trying to do is actually harvest the bacteria from the backs of these animals.
Those are all shrimp.
BL: You see this white V-shaped mark on the back of the shrimp?
Like many endangered species, fishing cats are threatened by habitat loss, mainly because of our international demand for farmed fish and shrimp, and the deforestation of nearly half the historic mangrove cover in South and Southeast Asia.
In less than a decade, with international support, the state forest departments and the local communities worked together to restore over 20,000 acres of unproductive fish and shrimp farms back into mangroves.
Fish and shrimp farmers, like Venkat, are now willing to work with us conservationists to test the sustainable harvest of ecosystem services like crabs, and possibly even honey, from mangroves.
And all of it was coming from this: shrimp farms.
And talking about babies, when you were starting to develop in your mother's womb, the first sensation that you had coming from the outside world, at only three weeks old, when you were about the size of a shrimp, were through the tactile sensation coming from the vibrations of your mother's voice.
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 while I was struggling to figure out how and why mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, make sound, I started to think about their appendages.
And mantis shrimp are called "mantis shrimp" after the praying mantises, which also have a fast feeding appendage.
So, mantis shrimp come in two varieties: there are spearers and smashers.
And this is a spearing mantis shrimp, or stomatopod.
And you can see it's just a really spectacular extension of the limbs, exploding upward to actually just catch a dead piece of shrimp that I had offered it.
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 mantis shrimp are officially the fastest measured feeding strike of any animal system.
And what he showed in mantis shrimp is that they use what's called a "catch mechanism," or "click mechanism."
And if any of you ever have a chance, backstage of the National Museum of Natural History is one of the world's best collections of preserved mantis shrimp.
And then we did a series of calculations, and what we were able to show is that these mantis shrimp have to have a spring.
So the next and final question was, well, how much force does a mantis shrimp produce if they're able to break open snails?
And so all I had to do was actually put a little shrimp paste on the front of the load cell, and they'd smash away at it.
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