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]]>Sheila Patek, a researcher at UC Berkley, was trying to study these odd creatures when she encountered a problem. “None of our high-speed video systems were fast enough to capture the movement accurately,” she says. “Luckily, a BBC crew offered to rent us a super high-speed camera as part of their series Animal Camera.”
Patek needed to slow down the video 800 times to see just how fast these shrimps can hit. The speeds are staggering – they go up to 50 mph!
Learn more in the video by BBC Earth Unplugged below.
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]]>The post The Mantis Shrimp Has the Fastest Punch in the World appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Sheila Patek, a researcher at UC Berkley, was trying to study these odd creatures when she encountered a problem. “None of our high-speed video systems were fast enough to capture the movement accurately,” she says. “Luckily, a BBC crew offered to rent us a super high-speed camera as part of their series Animal Camera.”
Patek needed to slow down the video 800 times to see just how fast these shrimps can hit. The speeds are staggering – they go up to 50 mph!
Learn more in the video by BBC Earth Unplugged below.
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