...That is how the mantis shrimp do.
So... I got caught up watching True Facts videos on YouTube, which are pretty amusing- sometimes disturbing and occasionally make my brain turn inside out.
I came upon the one on the mantis shrimp [seen above]. It already had me hooked with the eyesight thing.
There was more though:
Immediately after the bit regarding the speed and force of their punch attack and how it can create 1500 Newtons of force, I was all "It's true! MANTIS SHRIMP ARE TRULY PSYCHOTIC MASTERS OF TIME AND SPACE" and went to look up more about them.
"Their punch is so fast and powerful (1,500 Newtons of force are created) that it creates a bubble that sends a shock wave through the prey when it pops. If the punch didn't kill the prey, then the shock wave will be enough to stun it. The shock wave of the popping bubble is also enough to produce a small amount of light (called sonoluminescence; sono= sound; luminescence= light; light created by sound) and extremely high temperatures. "
-That is text from some random person writing random stuff about mantis shrimp here.
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-I recommend True Facts About the Cuttlefish. Also mildly inappropriate and quite amusing.
-Also, if the thing on mantis shrimp seeing all these wavelengths we can seemed interesting, a thing on fish and how they see lures under the water [as opposed to how me might see them from above the water]: Fish Eye.
ETA:
Also, also- I want to use the word "hyperspectral" now.
So... I got caught up watching True Facts videos on YouTube, which are pretty amusing- sometimes disturbing and occasionally make my brain turn inside out.
I came upon the one on the mantis shrimp [seen above]. It already had me hooked with the eyesight thing.
There was more though:
Immediately after the bit regarding the speed and force of their punch attack and how it can create 1500 Newtons of force, I was all "It's true! MANTIS SHRIMP ARE TRULY PSYCHOTIC MASTERS OF TIME AND SPACE" and went to look up more about them.
"Their punch is so fast and powerful (1,500 Newtons of force are created) that it creates a bubble that sends a shock wave through the prey when it pops. If the punch didn't kill the prey, then the shock wave will be enough to stun it. The shock wave of the popping bubble is also enough to produce a small amount of light (called sonoluminescence; sono= sound; luminescence= light; light created by sound) and extremely high temperatures. "
-That is text from some random person writing random stuff about mantis shrimp here.
---
-I recommend True Facts About the Cuttlefish. Also mildly inappropriate and quite amusing.
-Also, if the thing on mantis shrimp seeing all these wavelengths we can seemed interesting, a thing on fish and how they see lures under the water [as opposed to how me might see them from above the water]: Fish Eye.
ETA:
Also, also- I want to use the word "hyperspectral" now.
