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Dear /an/, What the fuck is this, seriously? I first thought lobster but look at those scythe-like claws! Holy shit what a god amongst crustacean mortals!
>> Anonymous
OP here, maybe it's a giant shrimp? dear god i'm fucking baffled.
>> Anonymous
You found this in your house?
>> Anonymous
Mantis shrimp?
>> Anonymous
>>153648
you are correct sir!
>> Anonymous
>>153648
Amazing, this is probably one of the coolest animals i've ever seen. This thread is now about strange animals
-OP
>> Anonymous
its a baby hyrdalisk.

those claws could rip a tank apart.
>> Anonymous
i came
>> Anonymous
WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE!?
>> Anonymous
How will this taste with some garlic butter sauce?
>> Anonymous
>>153702

Mantis shrimp are not actually shrimp. They are stomatopods. Look it up, they're nuts. (Can break through an aquarium with their claws, etc.) And I read that they taste pretty bad.
>> Anonymous
hydralisk?!
>> Anonymous
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For the last time, it is a mantis shrimp. It uses plasma fists to annihilate its prey.
>> Gunlord !.YMO7aNBcQ
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Do NOT mess with mantis shrimp, seriously.
>> Anonymous
Some people in China like to eat mantis shrimp. They call them pissing shrimp because they pee when you cook them.
>> Anonymous
>>153748

Oh, those Chinese. What won't they eat?
>> Anonymous
>>153755

Dick.
>> Anonymous
>>154544
watch porno, they do...
>> Anonymous
>>154544
I'm guessing you don't know much about Asians.
They eat dog dicks, tiger dicks, bear dicks, donkey dicks. They eat testicles too! All to make their own dicks bigger, or something.
Click here and you will see they are the world experts at eating dick, likely caused by some kind of Napoleon's dick complex:
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>> Anonymous
Chinese people like eating chicken feet. Like, the feet from chicken.

I have to wonder if feeding the citizens chicken feet is actually a government program to control their population or something. I don't see how they can do that and not get sick and die.
>> Anonymous
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>>154568
Boiling does wonders to unsafe food. The psychological impact of eating chicken feet however......
>> Anonymous
=o
>> Anonymous
its a kabutops ready your pokeball
>> Anonymous
OMFG RUN!!!
>> Anonymous
>>154575

There's no psychological impact to eating chicken's feet.

Try experiencing food from a culture that doesn't throw out like 40% of the animal.
>> Anonymous
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some type of crayfish aka crawfish
>> Anonymous
>>154845

"throwing away 40% of the animal" isn't cultural. It has to do with wealth. EVERY poor group of people eats things like chicken feet. It's not unique to China at all. They eat Calf's face and snails in France, Sheep's stomach in Scotland, pig's feet in the southern US, cheek meat in Mexico, bugs in Thailand, and then there's sausage......
>> Anonymous
>>154849

You just listed nothing but cultural examples to prove that what I stated wasn't cultural.

Good work.
>> Anonymous
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its a claw shrimp.
>> Anonymous
My old buddy is a diver and he got his right thumb split from end to end by a mantis shrimp, and it never actually made physical contact with him. It's like the Guile of the animal kingdom.
>> Anonymous
There's actually two variations of mantis shrimp. The one pictured is the slasher, with the mantis-like arms. The other is called the smasher, because it's front limbs are built like sledgehammers. They pummel their prey to death and smash it to pieces to eat.
>> Anonymous
>>154897
i think you just got high and watched battlebots and a animal show and fell asleep.
>> Anonymous
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>>154901

http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/2004/04/30/shrimp.php

I kid you not. Many sapecies of mantis shrimp are adapted for the hammer time. Picture is of a hammered variety.
>> Anonymous
>>154866
Holy crap. LOL I did the same thing when this was first being posted.
>> Anonymous
he force of the strike of a large Californian species approaches that of a 22 caliber bullet, and is capable of breaking double layered safety glass. They are, weight for weight, probably the most formidable animals alive.
>> Anonymous
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http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/210/17/3036?maxtoshow=&HITS=80&hits=80&RE
SULTFORMAT=&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=80&resourcetype=HWCIT

The strongest animal in relation to its' bodymass is so far a mite.
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>> Anonymous
>>155061

Smaller animals will always have an advantage in the "strength per weight" statistics. This is becasue as a creature gets larger, the area of its muscles increase quadradically, whereas the mass goes up cubically. Since the cubic function grows faster than the quadradic, the larger an animal's size, the WORSE it's strength to weight ratio will be. It's simple math people.
>> Anonymous
id have sex with it.