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xoxoxoBruce 10-01-2010 12:53 AM
Oct 1, 2010: Shrimp DeJour
 
Behold the Peacock Mantis Shrimp, like something Disney animators would dream up... on acid.
He looks like a Harlequin clown of the sea, but he's really a killer clown from the deep.

http://cellar.org/2010/mantis.jpg

He esentially bludgeons his prey to pieces, to eat their bloody pulp.

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Looks sure are deceiving here because this guy is what's known as a smasher, with club shaped raptorial appendages that it uses to repeatedly smash its prey until it can gain access to the soft tissue for consumption.
It is reported to have a "punch" of over 50mph. The fastest punch of any living animal.
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casimendocina 10-01-2010 07:33 AM
It looks like two creatures (sort of like when one person sits on another person's shoulders so you see the legs of one and the head of the other).

jinx 10-01-2010 08:03 AM
Aside form smashing things, they can see circular polarized light and 100,000 colors. Lots of articles about their eyes/vision in Wired...

monster 10-01-2010 08:12 AM
I don't eat shellfish :( But he sure is purdy. I'd keep one as a pet and give him creatures to smash. I'd call him Archibald.

xoxoxoBruce 10-01-2010 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by jinx (Post 685953)
Aside form smashing things, they can see circular polarized light and 100,000 colors. Lots of articles about their eyes/vision in Wired...
Like Mike Tyson with X-ray vision glasses. :haha:

classicman 10-01-2010 10:08 AM
He's purty ...

BigV 10-01-2010 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by xoB
Behold the Peacock Mantis Shrimp, like something Disney animators would dream up... on acid. He looks like a Harlequin clown of the sea, but he's really a killer clown from the deep.
Gaudy displays like this are Mother Nature's way of saying "Bring it, motherfucker!"

Flint 10-01-2010 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by BigV (Post 685987)
Gaudy displays like this are Mother Nature's way of saying "Bring it, motherfucker!"
lol ... oooooo what are these pretty colors over here? BAM! ::: dead :::

Gravdigr 10-01-2010 01:17 PM
He looks like a pimp.

A shrimp pimp?



ETA: lmao @ "Bring it, motherfucker!"

Trilby 10-01-2010 02:28 PM
I wouldn't have allowed in on the ark.

Happy Monkey 10-01-2010 03:12 PM
It would have punched you at 50mph, and then laughed, and went back to the bottom of the sea anyway.

Flint 10-01-2010 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey (Post 686053)
It would have punched you at 50mph, and then laughed, and went back to the bottom of the sea anyway.
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? ... Spongebob! Squarepants!
Who punches you in the face at 50 mph? ... Uhhh, I don't even ???





























This guy! BAM! ::: dead :::

BigV 10-01-2010 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 686014)
He looks like a pimp.

A shrimp pimp?



ETA: lmao @ "Bring it, motherfucker!"
"I am not a shrimp! I am a King Prawn!"

spudcon 10-01-2010 07:05 PM
BigV, I think you nailed it. I'm alergic to shrimp, so I say, step on it.

SPUCK 10-02-2010 05:49 AM
Looks like a trailer trash couch.


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