YOU FUCKING CALLED THE PLOT TWIST IN EPISODE 104!!!!
GUYS GUYS GUYS TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THIS POST AGAIN DJSIFHNALDISHCLSJDNDKAOFDKX HOW DOES THIS EVEN HAPPEN I DIDN’T THINK IT’D ACTUALLY HAPPEN IN THE LEGIT SHOW AHHHHHH
I find it very hard to take these animals seriously a lot of the time; I know from above they’re really impressive and “scary” and like WOAH DUDE.But the second you see them from below…
They’re all like OH HEY NEIGHBOUR HOW’S IT GOING I BROUGHT TACOS!
I mean, seriously guys. Just look at that face. Look at the wave.
I feel like he should be called Herman, or something.
Anyway, back to the post, (incase you hadn’t noticed) the largetooth sawfish gets its name from its long, flattened, snout, covered in a series of long, thin teeth. This may measure up to a fifth of the total length.
Sawfish are classed in the same group as sharks, skates and rays (the elasmobranchs), and despite their appearance, are actually more closely related to rays than sharks, having their gills located on the underside of the body and not on the sides.
Sawfish generally feed on small schooling fish, but are also reported to feed on crustaceans and other bottom-dwelling animals. They attack fish by slashing their ‘saw’ sideways through schools, impaling fish on their teeth (not so friendly now…).
The largetooth sawfish is found in the tropical eastern Pacific, from the Gulf of California to Ecuador; the western Atlantic, from Florida to Brazil; and the eastern Atlantic, from Portugal to Angola. It is classified as critically endangered.
Oh my gosh. Where do I even begin with such a fantastical animal? It’s just so amazing (Brace yourselves people, Coral’s about to get VERY excited).
The Peacock mantis shrimp is one of the larger, more colourful mantis shrimps commonly seen in the Indian and Pacific oceans, ranging in size from 3 to 18 centimetres. They are primarily green in colour, with orange legs and leopard-like spots on the anterior carapace.
Okay. So. On to the cool stuff. We (humans) have three colour receptive cones in our eyes; green, blue and red. These allow us to see all the colours derived from those three colours. Pretty impressive, no?
NO.
The mantis shrimp has SIXTEEN colour receptive cones. SIXTEEN. You think our rainbows are impressive derived from our measly three colours? Think how amazing everything the mantis shrimp sees is. GAH.
Second up, it has two raptorial appendages on the front of its body. These can accelerate with the same velocity as a gunshot from a 22 caliber rifle, and in less than 0.003 of a second can strike whatever was foolish enough to get in it’s way with 1500 Newtons of force.
I know.
Their limbs move so quickly that the water around them literally boils. The underwater shockwave it produces will kill the target even if it misses.WHAAAAT.
Do excuse my excitement in this post but it cannot be contained.
