THE AMAZING MANTIS SHRIMP

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 We all consider the ant to be a true heavy hitter, lifting weights 20 times its own body weight, hurrying around  building nests and tunnels without sleep but, if you consider that amazing just wait till you see this critter, The mantis shrimp.

 

The mantis shrimp unlike other shrimp in it’s family takes a much fearsome role as a predator


This one is about to devour the snail, but she’s gotta crack open it first right??. She carefully positions her legs and punches the snail with its legs with the force of a .22 caliber bullet, yup you heard me right an aquatic organism that can punch and crack open a snail’s shell with the force of a .22 caliber bullet!!, it’s the fastest attack in the entire animal kingdom!!.  This shrimp is called a smasher. The other is called a spearer buried under sand ambushes and impales its prey using a blade at blinding speed and drags it into the sand!!



What makes mantis shrimp amazing isn't only it’s blinding speed but also its eyes unlike humans who have one pupil in each eye to send an image to the brain for depth perception, the mantis shrimp has six of them in total, ie our vision is binocular while the mantis shrimp is hex-ocular!!



This special adaptation is for situations where accuracy really counts like ambushing a prey. The mantis shrimp has also beat us in the color receptors department while our eye has three receptors, red, green and blue. The mantis shrimp has 12.

The mantis shrimp also has another advantage when it comes to vision, see sunlight is messy but some objects like a fishes the scale has the capacity to polarize the sunlight on a particular plane. The mantis shrimp can see where in the ocean light is polarized to highlight it’s prey in the messy coral reef, hence enabling it to distinguish between prey and predator.



Some varieties of mantis shrimp take this polarization one step further to introduce its own special kind of polarization, mantis shrimp are incredibly territorial to the extent of defending its burrow to the depth hence mantis shrimp avoid this territorial fight by signals using its own polarization.



These surfaces on the mantis shrimp have the ability to polarize light in a circular helix-like this!!



Which can be interpreted only by another mantis shrimp.

The ability of a mantis shrimp to see polarized light has groundbreaking medical benefits, scientists reverse engineered the eye of a mantis shrimp to develop a low-cost scanner to x-rays to identify cancerous cells hiding in plain sight!!



This mantis shrimp is a true example of David and goliath in nature or as we like to call them pulling an epic move to the boss villain in a fight.

These special adaptations enable it to take on much larger prey and even defend itself against predators like octopus!!


CREDITS:


CONTENT WRITTEN BY:    christy samuel


RESEARCH DONE BY:   VAAGESH RAM


FINAL TOUCH BY:   uday


SOFTWARE DEVELOPER:   WAR  MUDASIR.


SOFTWARE DEVELOPER:   HIRDIYANSH  SHARMA.

Comments

  1. AnonymousJune 20, 2021 at 7:50 PM

    Very nice.

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  2. UnknownJune 22, 2021 at 9:37 PM

    Absolutely stunning. Once again a proof that engineers and scientists do not find anything new, but copy nature and apply it.

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