Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Suitcase Piercing Experience

The super-view of the shrimp

A group of researchers has shown that the crustacean stomatopode Gonodactylus smithii (A tropical shrimp, which is located in New Caledonia and the Philippines) has a very advanced version of the vision polarized feature almost unique in the animal kingdom. The hypothesis is that this vision can serve both the phenomena of courtship to find the prey on which it feeds, often transparent and difficult to detect.

From PlosONE

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