Nature is full of wonders, and many animals have evolved various magical abilities in order to survive better.
For example, Brother Octopus's camouflage ability.
The Basilisk Lizard floats on the water.
Basilisk lizard
There are also lighthouse jellyfish that can live forever.
Lighthouse jellyfish
So, have you ever seen a magical creature with its own "gun" that can shoot at a temperature of 5,000 degrees plus a flash effect?
This animal is the gun shrimp.
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The most obvious difference between the gun shrimp and other shrimp is that one of their pliers is so large that the big pliers look as if they have been stung by a bee. But we all know that bees can't swim, so this pliers is completely normal.
More than 600 species of gun shrimp have been found around the world
Larger and more powerful pliers can be used as a versatile tool for gun shrimp, as well as as defensive and offensive weapons. It's not because the crushing power of the pliers makes it a formidable weapon, but because the shock waves it bites can produce that can kill prey and potential predators.
The gun shrimp's extremely fast-closing pliers (less than a thousandth of a second) produce a stream of water that can exceed 100 kilometers per hour and create an implosion of cavitation bubbles. This implosion produces a large popping sound, the sound can exceed 218 decibels, and up to 1 km can be heard, which is one of the loudest sounds made by underwater animals.
This implosion also produces a flash of light (acoustic glow) and a heat burst of nearly 5,000 degrees Celsius. The resulting shock wave bombards their prey, which, if lucky, dies immediately and is then dragged into a burrow by a gun shrimp and eaten. If the prey is not dead, then the gun shrimp will go up to "replenish the gun".
The gun shrimp's weapon is so powerful that some species use it to burrow into hard basalt and bombard it again and again to build a cozy little home.
Like many crustaceans, gun shrimp willingly "break their arms" when attacked, after all, losing their pincers is better than losing their lives. Moreover, if the gun shrimp lose this large pliers, then their small pliers will grow into large pliers, and the lost pliers will regenerate small pliers.
However, there are always exceptions to everything, and some individual gun shrimp lose a large pliers, and they are likely to grow two large pliers.
Gun shrimp hiding in a sponge
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While many species form a monogamous lifelong bond, others master the art of symbiotic relationships, collaborating with a wide variety of marine life.
Clownfish
For example, in a maze of corals, when gun shrimp encounter predators, they immediately hide in the tentacles of sea anemones, like clownfish. If it were giant crowned starfish, they would in turn dutifully protect their hosts from harm, then fire air cannons that blasted the spike-crowned starfish's tube legs to drive them away.
Coral reef killer – the thorn-crowned starfish
Gobies and gun shrimp have a very rare symbiotic relationship, and gun shrimp are sometimes referred to as "blind shrimp", as the name suggests, their eyesight is so poor that they can hardly see anything.
Gun shrimp and gobies
The goby, on the other hand, has excellent eyesight and will keep an eye on the predators of the gun shrimp, and whenever it sees a predator, the goby will flick its tail to touch the tentacles of the gun shrimp, reminding it of the danger, and in return, the gun shrimp digs holes to make burrows and gobies to live with and prey for it.
There are also species of gun shrimp that form a huge swarm in sponges, ruled by kings and queens, with hundreds of people living together. Whenever a giant predator appears, they will make a loud noise together to scare the predator away.
submarine
Guns and shrimp swarms make noise all the time, so much so that they interfere with the Navy's ability to detect submarines using sonar technology. In fact, gun shrimp is believed to have helped the United States during World War II. The United States often parked submarines in the colonies of gun shrimp, or installed loudspeakers on submarines to play the snapping sound of gun shrimp, successfully fooling the sonar detection system of the enemy country.
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After reading the article, I believe everyone has a question, that is, the gun shrimp is so powerful, will it hurt people? To put it bluntly, will it give us a brainstorm if it is "one shot"?
Almost forgot, gun shrimp are delicious
In fact, the gun shrimp can't break us, it's just a little painful, but it's not easy to say if it is screwed by its big pliers.
Since it doesn't hurt people, do you want to raise a super powerful gun shrimp?
If you want to raise, be mentally prepared, this guy likes to dig a hole to hide inside, maybe not once in ten days and half a month. Also remember to buy a sturdy fish tank, or wait for it to blossom!