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All credit to TheOatmeal
my wife has this as a tshirt
MyUsernameIsntAvailable
Thank you for these true facts about the mantis shrimp.
CaptainPirate8
What a beautifully evil little fucker
pandimanafro
One punch shrimp. Would be a great Monster foe for Saitama
slyphen
they are also tasty as fuck.
satanscott
I had one as a pet for years. It eventually actually broke the glass of the tank it was in.
FiatLuxIam
"That's some Mortal Combat finishing move sh*t right there"
GuyMcgoo
ONETWOTHREE DEATH!
Asciiman
Yeah.... But what's it taste like?
manbastard
In the future. Interior designers and fashion designers will be Gene spliced with these for colour co-ordination. Shotgun hands too.
Dreese
Do they taste the same as normal shrimp?
Kramer321
I was like it's like it's Leo off that 70s show then it turn into Red shoving his foot into the asses of his Korean prey till they die
KeiCarsAreMyJam
But how do they taste?
bloodninja0
They are also fucking delicious.
Nolfelix115
You will thank me https://youtu.be/F5FEj9U-CJM
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
Do they taste good?
houseofnifty
Accelerates at velocity....
ovelanimimerkki
It's like a perfect psychopath of animal world. Appears to be nice and cool but is just absolutely barbaric.
SunBrolem
its literally a killer clown
crazy8bonkers42
I think you will find we're all perfect psychopaths it's jst been trained out of some us
ovelanimimerkki
Or we're just oscar worthy actors and actresses.
Stuebydoo
TIL My ex was a mantis shrimp
ovelanimimerkki
Congrats on getting out from that.
NougatFromOrbit
Oh shit what if two shades of white that look exactly the same to us are super different to a mantis shrimp D:
TinyKobold
Why does this get posted so much?
TheStaffmaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM
LasseReinbong
Thanks. I laughed for an hour straight. Especially at this: https://youtu.be/_y4DbZivHCY?t=93
errdayimshuffln
Got to it before me. Gotta love the True Facts series
FiatLuxIam
"That's some Mortal Combat finishing move sh*t right there" xD
YeOldNerd
Maybe it's like the TF2 pyro. All the colors it sees probably makes blood look like a liquid rainbow and he's just trying to hug it all.
faroutfelix
And that is how the mantis shrimp do.
GrammarAndPunctuationNazi
Mr. Handsome ape pig thing... I will steal this for future use OP. Thank you.
fives
theoatmeal getting rubbish at sauce
KaneVel
That's one long ass t-shirt.
NoIntent
Dw, Op. it says it at the top. Also, you can edit ur post.
fives
cheers
Teeker
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
Paasimus
The thing is, that while they have the capacity to see all those colours, they don't have the brain capacity to process all the visual data.
Paasimus
This leaves them with a vision that is quite probably just black and white or motion dependent.
jebowlin
Mantis Shrimp Dohvakin LOL
Cheomesh
That they are; it's quite inaccurate.
INDIG0M0NKEY
If you can't shoot a gun into orbit how could you throw a baseball into orbit won 1/10th the strength of the shrimp?
bugeyetex
You forgot to carry the 1... But seriously, the gun analogy was without a size ratio unlike the throwing analogy. Our arms are 300x as long
Corona688
You can't throw *anything* into orbit. The periapsis will never be higher than where you threw it from.
DAMIEN17
"Onetwothree death!" is forever my catch phrase
FartHands
Suuuure...
TheQuestionFewpeopledoFeweventhinktoaskthequestion
what does it mean
SmorezOverlord
one two three death, just a countdown.
TheQuestionFewpeopledoFeweventhinktoaskthequestion
but why the spelling
SmorezOverlord
it's supposed to being saying it super fast so the guy can't react before it attacks him.
WalterSobchaksWorldOfPain
Fucking fog crawlers
thisisnottheusernameyouwerelooking4
This is beautiful
WallaWallaWashington
Haven't seen this in a while
fives
thought it needed rolling out again
payamsaid13
Actually the mantis shrimp only has 12 colour-eeceptive cones, not 16. You are fake news
Jagiboo
Seeing his source and your lack of a source I'll believe him...
jezorko
WRONG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp#Eyes
detour512
So like is there anyway to visualize what they see that would be awesome...
Irreal
If i remeber correctly they are actually worse at differentiating colors than we are
therearenotenoughusernames
I wonder if it's our brains that cant perceive the colors or our eyes. If it's just our eyes it shouldn't be all that hard to replicate
Irreal
Just our eyes
BANANAFLAKE
Here's the thing. We can see orange and yellow. We don't have receptors specific to those colors. They probably have them and simply see>>
DrSparken
Experiments suggest the shrimps have no ability to distinguish colours they don't have receptors for at all - it's either that colour or 1/
DrSparken
not. The 16 types of cell are likely just to replace need for neurons that compare for better colour, getting just the 16 they need, 2/
DrSparken
while humans can use only 3 to get between 16 million and 1 trillion colours. 3/3
BANANAFLAKE
Those colors better. But the combinations might look different too. However, when humans have green and red receptors that pick up >>
BANANAFLAKE
Wavelengths that are too close to each other, they have a hard time telling the difference between them.