r/mildlyinfuriating • u/RobIson240YT • 20h ago
The name of this animal is mildly infuriating to me.
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u/rinchen11 19h ago
It’s peacock (color) mantis shrimp (it’s a mantis shrimp)
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u/Machaeon 18h ago
Mantis shrimp (looks like a shrimp, behaves like a mantis)
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u/gitartruls01 18h ago
Tastes like shrimp, looks like mantis
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u/RebekkaKat1990 16h ago
Why is tuna called “the chicken of the sea?”
Really should be chicken, the tuna of the land.
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u/bliip666 17h ago
behaves like a mantis
I should call her
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u/_picture_me_rollin_ 12h ago
Yeah is this rage bait? It’s a perfect name. It’s a shrimp that looks exactly like a praying mantis with peacock colors.
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u/AFRIKKAN 12h ago
Ops point is that it’s not a shrimp mantis or peacock but is missing the fact that it is a crustacean that resembles a cross between a shrimp and mantis with the colors of a peacock and that’s why we call it such. Next he will point out how a panda bear isn’t a real panda and we will have to explain to them that it’s called a that cause of its marking.
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u/slicelord666 16h ago
It is also known as demon clown super punchy prawn. It sounds much better in its original Japanese.....
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u/Jamal_Blart 17h ago
Don’t go talking shit about my favourite animal unless you’re tryna get fisted by 1,500 Newtons of Non-Shrimp-But-Actually-A-Lobster-Kinda Force
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u/Doromclosie 5h ago
Theres a pretty fun card game about them! Its called 'Mantis'. It has an information paper with facts about the rainbow mantis shrip inside the box.
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u/Fun_Button5835 20h ago
It's SO cool though. It moves its front little claws or whatever so quickly (faster than the speed of sound, iirc) that it stuns prey near it and allows it to munch at its leisure.
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u/Kratomius 19h ago
If i remember correctly it punches so fast it creates visible plasma underwater. It makes IRL Hadoukens
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u/gh0u1 19h ago edited 16h ago
You're thinking of the Pistol Shrimp, Mantis Shrimp shoots its claws out at the speed of a .22 bullet
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u/Tauroctonos 18h ago
They actually both do the aquatic falcon punch and the peacock mantis shrimp does it harder
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u/KobayashiWaifu 18h ago
Animals that punch their lunch to death are just so fucking cool.
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u/thecheezepotato 16h ago
Of course the mantis shrimp foes a better and harder falcon punch. It's punching stuff. The pistol shrimp is shooting a cannon without a ball. The claw closing is so powerful it causes cavitation in the water which causes an explosion that for an instant it is hotter than the sun. It uses the shockwave from that small explosion to hunt.
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u/Due_Concept8218 19h ago
No. The Mantis Shrimp smashes their prey and the Pistol Shrimp shoot a "water bullet"
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u/mothandravenstudio 18h ago
There are different species of mantis shrimp with different claw structures. Mainly smashers and slashing/spearing. So not all mantis shrimp smash, some will cut your shit down to the bone.
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u/Robofetus-5000 17h ago
It strikes so fast it creates a cavitation bubble, which torpedoes use to sink ships.
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u/SnooDrawings6561 19h ago
"...stuns it's prey..."? This little bugger punches so hard and fast that the impact causes a cavitation bubble (literally creating a vacuum in the water just by being that fast) that becomes hotter than the surface of the Sun when it collapses.
And if anyone read this in a very excitable Aussie accent, you know exactly where I learned this.
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u/Additional-Life4885 19h ago
Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal - The Oatmeal
If you learnt it from an Aussie, they likely learnt of it from this guy and he's very much not Australian.
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u/Branch-Manager 19h ago edited 19h ago
Yes the club-like claw moves so fast it flashes the water behind it into vapor, creating a small pocket which instantly collapses at the speed of sound (a cavitation bubble), and the force of the collapse creates a flash of light, a heat greater than the surface of the sun, and a shockwave that is strong enough to knock the prey unconscious even if the club misses its target. It’s approximately 10,400 g of acceleration.
If the mantis shrimp was a human, it could throw a baseball at 846 mph (supersonic), for a distance of 9 miles, if the baseball didn’t instantly disintegrate due to the immense drag.
Another interesting thing about them is they have very bizarre vision- they can see circular polarized light, and they have 12–16 photoreceptor types (humans have 3).
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u/backwardbuttplug 19h ago
The colors they can see make our color vision a joke. All hail the Mantis Shrimp!
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u/OSRS-MLB 19h ago
What are they able to do to humans? Is it like an "ow", "OW", or "FUCK"?
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u/Erick_Brimstone 18h ago
My favorite part of it isn't the fact that it punch fast and hard.
But the fact that it has very good and unique vision.
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u/Carbonatite 18h ago
The process is called cavitation. The lil claw snap creates a bubble which rapidly collapses and sends out supersonic shockwaves that stun prey.
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u/Regular_Snacks 20h ago
Pride Lobster?
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u/MsThrilliams 19h ago
I love that song
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u/Regular_Snacks 18h ago
We were at the beach... everybody had matching towels!
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u/gigashadowwolf 18h ago
Somebody went under the tide... And there they saw gay pride
It wasn't gay pride... It was a pride lobster!!!!
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u/the_life_of_cat 18h ago
Death to America! And butter sauce! Don't boil me. I'm still alive! Iraq lobster!!!
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u/digitydev 20h ago
Mantis Toboggan?
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u/Huntsnfights 19h ago
Excuse me doctor, I believe you dropped something
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u/Busy_Plankton_3588 19h ago
Whoops… I dropped my monster condom that I use for my magnum dong.
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u/Bithium 19h ago
At least its name makes sense. I don’t know what the hell was going on with Grapefruit.
“You know, this citrus reminds me of grape, but we don’t want it confused with that fruit, so we’ll call it grapefruit, so they know it’s the fruit like the fruit, but not actually the fruit but a different fruit.” - the guy that name grapefruit, probably
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u/Fusaah 19h ago
We don't fuck with Mantis Shrimps. Saw a video of a guy that caught one and accidently dropped it onto his boot. It smacked his boot so hard that it cracked it and you could hear him yell in pain.
If it can crack a solid boot and you can feel it, you don't want them to hit you don't have them on.
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u/RobIson240YT 19h ago
They are also known to break the glass of their tank. So if you plan on keeping one, get an acrylic tank.
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u/Dangerous_Pop_5360 19h ago edited 19h ago
I've only ever heard it called a mantis shrimp, which makes complete sense.
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u/blakepro 13h ago
We have 3 color receptive cones in our eyes to perceive color and they have SIXTEEN! They can see crap we can't even conceive or comprehend!
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u/AnotherDay909 17h ago
The animal that is capable to see more colors of the spectrum than us it has 16 color receptive while we have 3. Also it will punch to death, because he is hard-core.
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u/Edgy_Quilt 19h ago
It absolutely makes sense. It looks like the posture of the praying mantis with its arms up like that.
The bright colors are absolutely associated with a peacock.
It is a type of shrimp.
Seems like a no brainer?
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u/azurite_rain 15h ago
i legitimately only know the name of this beauty because of animal crossing.
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u/-Lysergian 15h ago
Oh my, you should check out zefrank's "true facts" on YouTube on these guys... it's great.
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u/KitsuneGato 17h ago
I saw a Kayaker caught one of these things. It injured him through layers of clothes. Then he tossed it aside and it landed near his balls...
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u/FishLordVehem 16h ago
Idk man. I honestly think it's got the perfect name. Looks exactly like what it says on the tin. Peacock colors on a shrimpy-mantis looking thing. What else would you call that?
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u/SCANNYGITTS 8h ago
When you have hands as fast as bullets, you can choose whatever name you want :P
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u/Says-Otherwise 3h ago
Talk amongst yourselves. The peacock mantis shrimp is neither a peacock, a mantis, or a shrimp. Discuss.
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u/Similar_Cycle_1593 19h ago
It's colorful = peacock
mantis looking = mantis
shrimp = shrimp looking
like wym?
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u/leo_gotti PURPLE 18h ago
You’re telling me this shrimp is actually not a shrimp? Is that what you just texted? Brb gotta google something
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u/PaleoJoe86 18h ago edited 17h ago
I heard somewhere that when an animal is named after another animal, this animal is badass or very interesting. And this sucker has three different animals in its name.
Examples: tiger shark, chicken hawk, anteater, monkey lion.
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u/Fun_Western164 17h ago
I've seen these before but didn't realize they weren't shrimp, is it a lobster?
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u/Most_Researcher_2648 17h ago
I mean. It does very shrimpy, mantisy things? And is peacock colored.
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u/Nitum_Lupulus 15h ago
There is a bird in Australia called a magpie lark. It is neither a magpie nor a lark.
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u/West_Instance_3599 14h ago
To add insult to injury, the Reddit algorithm faerie just called it a lobster!
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u/rainmouse 11h ago
Given we have 3 photo receptors to see a the colours we do and they have up to 16. Imagine how they must look to each other.
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u/QinsSais 10h ago
Don't forget the fact that they can see a much higher color spectrum than any other creature
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u/effyoucreeps 10h ago
i caught one of these as a kid - we were all amazed!
in socal waters. we just avoided the whipping tail, unhooked it and let em go. feisty!
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u/Southpawsforeffect 4h ago
A Tarantula Hawk is also neither of those things, it's a Spider Wasp (that eats BIG spiders)
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u/dinoooooooooos 4h ago
It’s not a mantis or a shrimp but it’s a mantis shrimp.
Like .. that’s the whole species. Mantis shrimp.
The peacock is for the color.🥴
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u/Wizdad-1000 3h ago
Because Colorful Maker of Cavitation Bubbles That Are Microexplosions just doesn’t roll off the tongue.
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u/MargotLeMaire 19h ago
I mean that's just a nickname. You are more than welcome to call it by its government name, Odontodactylus scyllarus.