This hunting/defense adaptation is also a problem for deluded Young Earth Creationists who believe god made all animals vegetarian. How did they get this adaptation without evolution? No doubt they will pull some bollocks out their collective chuffs like god intended them to eat coconuts and the snap breaks the shell.
A final interesting thing about these shrimp is that they often enter a symbiotic relationship with certain species of goby. The goby provides the lookout and bits of food and the shrimp provides a protective burrow and firepower. This an example of being co-operative yet selfish. It is such a creationist lie that natural selection means kill everything.
Anyway, I wonder who would win in a square go between a pistol shrimp and a mantis shrimp (which can deliver a blow equivalent to being hit by a .22 bullet). Following Bruce Lee's advice of using your longest weapon, I would bet on the pistol shrimp. All we need now is Harry hill to proclaim Fiiiiight!
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But what do they taste like cooked?
Interesting verification for you... 'metro-ded'?
I wonder what it could mean?
Like woodlouse apparently
Like woodlouse apparently
Erm... that doesn't sound nice.
Apparently they taste just like shrimp. You should join the zoophagy society and eat your way through the animal kingdom. Darwin once ate a brown owl which was so boggin' that he described it as indescribable
You should join the zoophagy society and eat your way through the animal kingdom.
I draw a line at insects... and some of the funny looking fish.
On a silly side note - I have often wondered how man discovered what was good to eat, what can and cannot be eaten.
I mean, who was the poor fool who had to try and the poisonous stuff and say "No, not good" just before kicking the bucket?
And who was the one who thought these stones are rubbish eating… but if I throw that at that deer over there...
(Probably a Farside comic on the subject somewhere)
Lee
Yeah, I have often wondered who thought drinking rancis and fermented fruit juice was a good idea - or eating moldy cheese.
... and who though black pudding would be a good idea?
It must be in the bible somewhere I guess?
It must be in the bible somewhere I guess?
Actually, the bible forbids eating blood (Genesis 9:4). This is one of the verses that JWs use concerning transfusions.
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