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Mantis Murder Shrimp (Slow Motion)


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Alexandra Bruce
September 2, 2014

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Dr. Jamie Seymour JellyDudeinNemoLand (@JellyDudeInNemo) handled the Stomatopod for us.
The video was filmed by myself and Richard Fitzpatrick.

The bulk of the information in this video came from these papers.

Dr. Sheila Patek:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v428/n6985/full/428819a.html
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~claverie/Thomas%20Claverie/Claverie%20et%20al.,%202010.pdf

“The stomatopod dactyl club: a formidable damage-tolerant biological hammer”
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6086/1275.abstract

Dr. James Weaver was a tremendous help in the creation of this video. I’m indebted to him for how generous he was with his time.

The crab clubber components were made by Emily Weddle
http://www.emilyweddledesign.com

I shot the Shrimp with a Phantom MIRO LC320S made by Vision Research: http://www.visionresearch.com/Products/High-Speed-Cameras/Phantom-Miro-M320S/

The Hyperbolic Paraboloid was rendered by Michael Zappe

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