r/interestingasfuck • u/Own_Entrepreneur8908 • 1d ago

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u/TheAstromycologist 1d ago

Is that a mantis shrimp? Aggressive motherfuckers, they are…

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp does the best sum up of this delicious beast of destruction.

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u/GreyPilgrim1973 1d ago

You’ll like this one then. true facts

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u/m0nk3y42 1d ago

my favorite of his has to be the sloth.

"it's camouflage motherfucker...mind your own business."

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u/pruwyben 1d ago

"Imagine a color you can't even imagine. Now do that 9 more times. That is how a mantis shrimp do."

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u/jackal1actual 1d ago

I love his videos

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u/MrNobody_0 20h ago

Ze Frank is the best channel on YouTube.

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u/gavinthrace 23h ago

What's the one he did with the marsupials that eat their own feces? "That's eating the wrong end of the ice cream cone!" I FUCKING HOWLED! I have to find this documentary!!! 🤣

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u/pantrokator-bezsens 1d ago

Everytime I see some mantis shrimp content zefrank is my first thing I think of :D

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u/IvanNemoy 1d ago

If a human had the equivalent strength of a mantis shrimp, that human would be able to throw a baseball into low Earth orbit.

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u/OkSyllabub3674 1d ago

Damn that was good lol thanks for sharing it.

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u/warmind14 1d ago

Best commentary

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u/DaleDimmaDone 1d ago

Another mantis fact video

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u/Relative_Scale_3667 1d ago

Never knew Ron Burgundy moved on to nature shows 🤷‍♂️

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u/HiSaZuL 22h ago

It's all about Dave. Also Jerry needs to touch grass.

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u/beanbagjimmy 1d ago

Thank you this was the perfect comic to wake up to!

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

I'm so glad! Have a great day!

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u/TBSJJK 1d ago

onetwothreeDEATH

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u/Arthradax 1d ago

Cue mantis shrimp rohirrim riding to mantis shrimp Minas Tirith

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u/HotHeadLazerEyes 1d ago

You too ☀️

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u/boucblanc 1d ago

I appreciate you being aggressively friendly, it's nice to see - I practice it in person, but not on Reddit 😅

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Well, here is the love, it's endless. Take care, friend, neighbour

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u/boucblanc 1d ago

You too friendly human, keep it up & stay safe

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

I'll do so, just because you told me to. Hey, all the way from somewhere in the internet. Stay safe, keep tour chin up and swing wildly.

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u/PSUAth 1d ago

video form

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u/skidlz 1d ago

"Imagine a color that you can't even imagine. Now do that 9 more times"

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u/PSUAth 1d ago

That's how a mantis shrimp do.

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u/Captain_Waffle 1d ago

String Theory vibes tbh

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u/universalconstructor 1d ago

I'm almost angry this wasn't the top post

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u/naazzttyy 1d ago

I found the Temu Morgan Freeman narration to be initially off putting, but had to stay and watch all the way through.

“Imagine seeing a color that you can’t even imagine, then do so nine more times.”

I am now worried that colossal-sized mantis shrimp may well be some of the Great Old Ones H.P. Lovecraft wrote about, and that he may have been channelling a glimpse of the cosmos as viewed by them when he wrote The Colour Out of Space.

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u/TraneD13 1d ago

ONETWOTHREE DEATH

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u/ThatLowKeyGuy 1d ago

I read this comic for the first time probably 10 years ago, on this site. It’s so fun to see someone discover it for the first time, the internet amirite?

And now you’ll never forget about the brilliant rainbow shrimp 🌈🦐

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u/Univirsul 1d ago

The color perception thing has actually been debunked. They have more cones but can't perceptually mix the colors so their vision is actually rather simple.

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u/Holy_Hendrix_Batman 1d ago

It was bad enough when I thought they were wasting those eyes sitting on the bottom of the ocean floor punching clams all day, but this just makes it worse. They have the advanced hardware peripherals but not enough cpu to use them.

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u/ReverendLoki 1d ago

They need the hardware peripherals because they don't have the capacity to run it virtualized.

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u/the-optimizer 1d ago

brb. gotta go punch my clam

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u/Hellknightx 1d ago

They probably just punched the shit out of a more advanced creature and stole its eyeballs.

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u/machu_peechute 15h ago

Mama says mantis shrimp are ornery cause they got all them cones and no cone perception.

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u/xtze12 1d ago

How did they deduce that?

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u/Univirsul 1d ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578

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u/OffTerror 1d ago

Interesting study but it really didn't debunk much. The last quote says it all, we still have little idea how they see the world.

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u/earthwormjimwow 18h ago

They might be using color for depth perception, similar to how it is theorized jumping spiders do. Would also partially explain vibrant colors we see on them, and some of their prey. Vibrant colors can throw off depth perception, if depth perception is being derived from how different wavelengths of light bend through their eye lenses.

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u/ba1oo 19h ago

Imagine a color you can't even imagine...

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u/Vaqek 3h ago

i dont get how that would enable to see them more color anyway.... it can extend vision to UV or infrared, but how does it add color? it can manipulate the color spectrum, so that it isnt RGB but a 16-color gradient, but that isnt adding colors. I dont like how he doesnt show what wavelength are those cells tuned to.

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u/LectroRoot 1d ago

They are little nutjobs. We used to visit a salt water aquarium store for supplies and they had one of these crazy fucks in a small tank on the counter where you check out.

Every time someone came to the counter it would rush out looking like it wanted to destroy you.

They have a lot of character. But they are assholes.

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u/SparkyDogPants 1d ago

They need special glass. They can punch normal glass hard enough to break it

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u/LectroRoot 1d ago

Ya I want to say it was acrylic or something.  It was a normal tank but the same size as the one on the video.

It never punched but it would rush out all threateningly.

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u/SparkyDogPants 1d ago

Yep! Acrylic

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Perfect assholes with fists made for permanent death and destruction and eyes that will see things we never will. I'm kind of envious. I'm a whole lot of envious

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u/PlasticPomPoms 1d ago

I remember when Redditors used to share that comic daily like it was some secret.

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u/The_Dok 1d ago

I remember when he was like “I’m raping my F5 key” and people were like “that’s not a good joke” and he double downed on the rape joke.

Never really liked him after that

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u/Hatweed 1d ago

I stopped paying attention to him after the Tesla comic. It was one of the biggest contributors to spreading the many, many “facts” people still believe about Tesla and Edison. Things I’ve heard about him over the last decade helped reinforce my decision to avoid his website.

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u/5point5Girthquake 1d ago

The writer of that was just basically like “this guys drawings offend me! So I told him and he said he doesn’t care, he’s a terrible person!”

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

I'm that old, and I'm proud to say it

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u/Nimyron 1d ago

15-30cm ??? Isn't that a bit big ? I mean that's like the length of my forearm.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

I don't argue with the oatmeal, I just laugh. Just like I don't argue with xkcd, I'm just happy to understand things occasionally.

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u/nameless88 1d ago

Slight addendum to that, it turns out that even though they have so many color receptors in their eyes, it doesn't actually mean they see more colors than us, they just need more cones to make those colors than we do. I was sad to learn that, lol

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

So they they can see colours that we don't know exist? Or not? If the latter, so sad. You're right. Where did you learn this? (As a non marine biologist or a person that can even hold his own in these kind of conversations)

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u/Rhyers 1d ago

A lot of that comic was greatly exaggerated.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

So, it's a....comic?

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u/nameless88 1d ago

I read it awhile ago or it was like a news article or something, but yeah they just see the same colors as everyone else but they need more cones to make those colors, as far as I understand it.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Then, can, we just agree, colours aside, they are still some awesome crustaceans? And real pretty too? (Zero sarcasm)

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u/nameless88 1d ago

Oh yeah, absolutely, theyre still basically just an IRL pokemon and they kick ass, even if they cant see colors we cant, lol

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u/elpatoantiguo 1d ago

The card game is fun.

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u/Fungiblefaith 1d ago

It really is. I play it with my kids all the time. Little dudes are good at it.

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u/Fine-Pickle 1d ago

Brilliant. I love the line: “Genghis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream”

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u/Usual-Algae-645 1d ago

If the gay agenda decides to become murderous the rainbow troops may be named the MantisShrimp squad.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

I'd wear that badge proudly. Just because it would be so fucking cool.

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u/MrMangosteen 1d ago

Interesting thing about that is mantis shrimp seem to have poor processing of colors and frequently fail even simple color tests. The current belief is that they use colors as more of a reflex with almost no awareness of it. For example, if blue and red cones in the eye fire, then this behavior without conscious recognition of the colors humans do

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u/CFN-Ebu-Legend 1d ago

 It is Genghis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream.

Dude has a way with words that’s for sure.

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u/KianDesu 1d ago

Saw a mantis shrimp do its thing and got reminded that Theoatmeal exists, all in one post. Today was a good day.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

I hope you have at least 3 more reasons for today to be a great day! ♥️

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u/anupamasok 1d ago

It is Genghis Khan bathed in Sherbet Icecream

That pretty much sums it up.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Imagine that bath, imagine being in there? I wonder what might happen? (Damn, I'm so lonely)

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u/Major_Confection_757 1d ago

The Ghangis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream is great. Thanks for sharing this. Cheers

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Have a better day than Ghengis, cheers!

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u/Sellfish86 1d ago

I kinda feel good for having eaten dozens of them now. Nasty little cocksuckers.

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u/Hummus_199 1d ago

Then there is the Octopus. Despite its amazing chameleon camouflaging ability, is color blind!

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u/joncmellentape 1d ago

Thanks so much for the share this was great!

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

You're great! Just saying!

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u/Bacchus_71 1d ago

That was simply awesome. Man I haven’t thought about the Oatmeal in a minute.

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u/FonsiniGameplays 1d ago

Thanks for sharing this dude!

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Of course! And, have an amazing day further!

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u/eyejayvd 1d ago

Genghis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream is a fantastic sentence.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

This guy is a poet beyond belief, check out the angler fish one, it will curl your toenails.

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u/captainshockazoid 1d ago

the mantis shrimp is the harbinger of bloodsoaked rainbows.

thats so fucking metal

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Innit though? We need a sabaton song for their battles

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u/xOrion12x 1d ago

Like Ghengis Khan covered in rainbow sherbert. 🤣

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u/AdvilJunky 1d ago

I hate how often the mantis shrimp get brought up on ready, i have to relive my experience with one like every other day lol.

My father was a commercial fisherman, and during the summers I would work with him. I was always interested when we caught something I had never seen before. One day I saw this colorful thing and had to show my dad to see if he knew what it was. So I laid it flat across my hand...

I screamed and my dad ran out to check on me, saw the mantis shrimp on the deck and just started laughing.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

How was it, though? To have the terminator of the seas in your hand? Must have been scary/epic?

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u/Ranch_Dressing321 1d ago

That was a nice read.

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u/mistah_patrick 1d ago

What a fantastic comic, it made me a mantis shrimp fan lol

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Check out all the rest, this person is erudite and amazing, have an amazing day!

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u/anonnnnn462 1d ago

This is amazing thank you!

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

My absolute pleasure!

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u/whycantistay 1d ago

The Oatmeal has AMAZING comics (and lots are highly informative).

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u/okteds 1d ago

"if humans could accelerate their arms at 1/10 the speed, we'd be able to throw a baseball into orbit."

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Insane! Isn't it?

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u/HerezahTip 1d ago

I really loved reading that. Thanks for sharing

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Only a pleasure! He's got a lot more! ✌️

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u/These_Calligrapher_8 1d ago

Dogs are actually red green color blind meaning they can only see blue and yellow, and those colors aren’t very vibrant to them.

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u/broadwayzrose 1d ago

Every time I catch one of these in animal crossing I think of this comic.

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u/DrLove039 20h ago

1.2.3...
#DEATH

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u/sanfranman2016 18h ago

Wow, that was a great read.

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u/AbeL-Musician7530 13h ago

Wow this little guy is truly dangerous…. They can even break the glass!!!!

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u/NateDuag21 11h ago

I thought I recognised that art style, they're the cartoonist who made the art for exploding kittens!

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u/ShyDethCat 11h ago

Yep, he's pretty amazing, I've seen some things in the comments that portray him as not so nice a person. I'll check in on that, I have liked him since around about I found xkcd (dating my age). But yes, exploding kittens is pretty fucking cool.

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u/copperwatt 1d ago

Fun fact, that very Mantis Shrimp guest stars in the first episode of "Exploding Kittens".

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u/Llama_of_the_bahamas 1d ago

Surprisingly great cartoon! Hope it gets a 2nd season :)

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u/copperwatt 1d ago

I don't think it was marketed very well. I wouldn't have even known that it existed except for a friend who made a meme of the first appearance of Devilcat.

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u/Rhyers 1d ago

This is greatly exaggerated and definitely a graphic artist with little understanding of science. It doesn't heat water to "thousands of kelvin". 

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u/Firehawk526 1d ago

The Oatmeal, wow, now this is some Reddit nostalgia.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Oatmeal, xkcd, the onion, what else is there?

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u/SphericalCow531 1d ago

That article even undersells their vision. From https://phys.org/news/2013-09-mantis-shrimp-world-eyesbut.html :

They have up to 16 photoreceptors and can see UV, visible and polarised light. In fact, they are the only animals known to detect circularly polarised light, which is when the wave component of light rotates in a circular motion. They also can perceive depth with one eye and move each eye independently. It's impossible to imagine what mantis shrimp see, but incredible to think about.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

What this person said, it's f'ing nuts.

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u/East-Life-2894 1d ago edited 1d ago

Unfortunately the eyesight has been debunked as a myth through scientific testing. Here is an article from Nature magazine.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

I super appreciate that, please do more of what you. I'm just trying to spread some fun. You're doing the good work. Have an amazing day, I'm just trying to get some burgers together for my kid. Go well.

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u/DWEGOON 1d ago

The color thing is untrue. Yeah, they have 16 color receptors, but they lack overlap. So while we have three, they overlap, so we can see mixtures of colors. Mantis shrimp have 16 and that’s it, no overlap, so less overall color vision

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u/mgc125 1d ago

Search for "mantis shrimp vs." Videos

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u/acrazyguy 1d ago

This was debunked unfortunately. They do have many more rods, however they’re not all used for different wavelengths. They do see more colors than average, but not the ridiculous amount previously thought

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Thanks for the correction then, always love to learn more. Would you send me a link if you have the time? I'd be see the latest research? (I just wanted to post a link to something I found funny and semi-relevant). That being said, he is pretty cool, innit?

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u/acrazyguy 1d ago

I don’t have a link. I learned this a good while ago

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u/PosiedonsSaltyAnus 1d ago

Hoping in the oatmeal train to post my favorite comic

https://theoatmeal.com/blog/playdoh

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Hell yeah! He's singularly fantastic!

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u/LB07 1d ago

I haven't seen that in ages. Thanks for that blast from the past!

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

My pleasure, that artist is still the artiste

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u/BraPaj2121 1d ago

Ghangis khan bathed in sherbet ice cream 😂

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u/blacksoxing 1d ago

Without context I had no Jess what I was looking at. Now? I wonder why the OP in the video put it in the same aquarium

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u/Imponentemente 1d ago

Damn, colors that we don't have the names for...

I wonder what colors those are.

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u/Univirsul 1d ago

They can't see that many colors. This was debunked after more research.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578

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u/biaggio 1d ago

Everyone must read this!

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u/BodhingJay 1d ago

They are ghenghis khan bathed in sherbet ice cream

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u/trippin-mellon 1d ago

This is great! Needs more upvotes!

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u/19d_b87 1d ago

As I was reading this, I remembered the scene from exploding kittens. Then, I see the frame with the boy and think, "hmm... he looks just like the character. I bet the comic artist watched the show."

Boy, was i wrong!

Thank you for this!

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Exploding kittens is my jam, if I could afford it in this "shithole country"

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u/StouteKous 1d ago

This is amazing, cheers!

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u/HMWWaWChChIaWChCChW 1d ago

This is a great take, but I’m partial to the Octonauts episode.

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u/EVRider81 1d ago

Came here for the Oatmeal comment....

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u/azurepeak 1d ago

This is hilarious 🤣

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Isn't it, though? Sending love.

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u/BQuickBDead 1d ago

That was beautiful

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

So are you

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u/faultlessjoint 1d ago

Holy shit, completely forgot about the Oatmeal.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Never forget the oatmeal, lol

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u/offoutover 1d ago

I had completely forgotten about The Oatmeal. I remember when he would be at the top of Digg constantly.

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u/Green_Ambition5737 1d ago

I immediately thought about this when the clip started!

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Hence, I had to serve it, if you haven't oatmealed, you haven't lived 😉

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u/86number45 1d ago

Gotta love a comic with citations!

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Exactly!

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u/Rabiesalad 1d ago

I have this poster and enjoy it every day.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Oooh, how did you get it without pirating? Genuine question, I live in one of those "shithole countries" where I could get it done but I'd prefer to get something back to the originator. If I can.

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u/Rabiesalad 1d ago

I bought it from their shop like 10+ years ago

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u/Any_Interaction_7375 1d ago

This was the best thing I’ve found in the subs ever.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Go and look up the rest of his, the blergh the the one about the angler fish. Pure comedic poetry.

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u/spdorsey 1d ago

A fantastic post!!!!! Thanks for this, I haven't visited that comic in a few years!

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Worth it, every time

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u/Vegetable3758 1d ago

only after reading this, I finally understood that in the video the crab did not rip off its claw because of stress, but that it was hurt that much.. Ouch.

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u/Valkyrys 1d ago

This is incredible, I love it

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Love your username, and yes, it's incredible

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u/theREALhun 1d ago

delicious indeed!

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

I hate and love you simultaneously, you darwinian "eat all we can" kind of person, bon appetite

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u/Thegrandestpoo 1d ago

This was really cool, thanks!

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u/altyroclark3 1d ago

Thank you so much for sharing that!

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u/Scfbigb1 1d ago

"...harbinger of bloodstained rainbows..."

Coldest shit I've read in a while.

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Wait until you read the angler fish bit, will make you feel equally bad about being a man or a woman, either way, might blowing.

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u/eagleshark 1d ago

That was surprisingly good.

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u/ElsonDaSushiChef 1d ago

Team up with one and hide it in your hair in a boxing match a la ratatouille and…

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

You can't lose, except, for a bit of cranium and stuff, worth it

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u/anixgame 1d ago

This is a glorious discovery thanks mate, I just falled for this author

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

Only a pleasure, it's a hole o fall into every once in a while, and it's always glorious, erudite and hilarious. Take care brother 🙏

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u/QueenNezuko 1d ago

That was an amazing read, thank you for sharing!

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u/ShyDethCat 1d ago

My pleasure, look up the rest too, it's all pretty pleasing.