True Facts: The Skeleton Shrimp

this is Peter Peter is sometimes called a skeleton shrimp but he would like you to know if he is not a shrimp at all Peter is an amphipod in the order capela day Jenny what's he doing when I know he's bending but it looks like he's I mean it's not a good first impression up close Capra let's look a bit like a Chucky Cheese mechanical claw that was flushed down a toilet and Sewer mated with a drawing that sent a third-grade student to the school psychologist however they are also kind of cute like little people's perhaps because they swim like a drunk person in a sleeping bag trying to answer the doorbell the prey leads tend to hang out near the bottom of the ocean floor just as a side note they can be ducks to flatworms they say things hey you look like a ruffles potato chip on its way to Coachella it's not nice they can anchor themselves with the help of three pairs of hold on for dear life grasping appendages Jerry this is the right body part but it's not holding on to anything certainly not dear life I mean it's in the process of being much less alive just take the feedback Jerry further up they have two pairs of grabby grabby little arm like things called nephal pods together these appendages seem like the result of a one-night stand between Groot and mantis I mean that's if mantis actually had cool arm parts instead of looking more like a moth and I don't even know if they could have a one-night stand there'd be some unfortunate splinters to feed capron let's employ a multitude of strategies some species use comb like SETI on their second pair of antenna trapping detritus and eating it like bits of soup from a mustachio that you grew on your ear and I know just go with it they can also use their little narrow part hands grabbing small crustaceans and energy that happen to be floating by they're not above stealing food either the palates of a soft coral are like a display case of spinning wieners in a gas station a grab-and-go snack in this case a lobster egg the prelate bees sneaky sneaky polyp be sad and just as an aside they can be real opposed to seahorses you know they say things a pipette with lips you look like an accordion was used in a colonoscopy and kept that shape it's rude like all crustaceans caprile ads must molt as they grow wriggling out of their old exoskeletons as one might out of a wet onesie females can only reproduce in the short period of time after a mold before her outsides harden courtship begins by males beating the living crap out of each other the larger of the two pair of Natha pawns is capable of severing an opponent in two these are also equipped with a poison tooth which has been shown to have pores for possible venom delivery males will guard a potential mate and play tappy tap on her skin when she is ready to mold he will assist in splitting her exoskeleton open and removing it with his novel pants to understand this imagine a commercial break bathroom stall hookup between two contestants on the masked singer you have to crack the shell to get to the nut so to speak the fertilized eggs are transferred to the females brood pouch and soon after this happens on average 40 little baby Cobra leads grab on to their mother anywhere they can look at the moms little eye poking out whatever parenting experience you've had this is some next-level what Janet well if it smells bad don't put it in your mouth yes yes Eunice you're very good at gluing no Tyler not better than you or did you tell them it's your body and you don't want to be peed on it can be exhausting after about a week the mother detaches them from her body and puts them down on their new home from here they will grow up well most of them will actually die fish food mainly but some will grow up and the circle of life will continue sorry I just wanted to add they can be real balls to sea snails you know they say things like hey you look like a restaurant peppermint that got sucked down the wrong pipe and was coughed out attached to a loogie it's like very specific like they really thought about it and totally inappropriate alright hon I gotta go Mary freakin Monday's question are you about to molt [Music]

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Length: 4min 35sec (275 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 08 2020