Spearing Zebra Mantis Shrimp Mantis shrimp are truly spectacular predators of the marine world. Like a praying mantis, the mantis shrimp use a specialised pair of forelimbs to capture prey and are divided into the ‘spearers’, those that hunt by impaling their prey on spear like structures and the ‘smashers’ which smash their prey with powerful blows. To capture prey so effectively mantis shrimps have the most impressive eyesight in the animal kingdom. While humans have three kinds of colour-rece

There are over 400 species of mantis shrimp, divided into two main groups: smashers, which have club-like appendages for striking prey, and spearers, which have spear-like appendages for impaling prey. Also, mantis shrimp use complex visual signals to communicate with each other, including body movements and color changes. #ocean #shrimp #nature | Critter Hunter