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.



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

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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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).

Aside form smashing things, they can see circular polarized light and 100,000 colors. Lots of articles about their eyes/vision in Wired...

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.

jinx;685953 wrote:

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:

He's purty ...

xoB wrote:

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!"

BigV;685987 wrote:

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 :::

He looks like a pimp.

A shrimp pimp?



ETA: lmao @ "Bring it, motherfucker!"

I wouldn't have allowed in on the ark.

It would have punched you at 50mph, and then laughed, and went back to the bottom of the sea anyway.

Happy Monkey;686053 wrote:

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 :::

Gravdigr;686014 wrote:

He looks like a pimp.

A shrimp pimp?



ETA: lmao @ "Bring it, motherfucker!"

"I am not a shrimp! I am a King Prawn!"

BigV, I think you nailed it. I'm alergic to shrimp, so I say, step on it.

Looks like a trailer trash couch.

OK, now Spuck is the winner.

oh, god. The "king prawn" makes me lmao every time!

I love, love, love that movie! (Muppets from Outer Space)

This little guy missed his part in Finding Nemo. He would have been great in that movie. Bummer.:cool:

No reason why he can't be in the sequel.

There is a reason, he'd punch and eat the whole cast and crew.:eek:

Put him in a contained area, chuck 'dispensables' in with him, get it on film and it would be the perfect action movie.