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NARRATOR: Despite being only six
inches long, pound for pound,
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he packs the biggest punch
in the natural world.
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[piano music]
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This is the peacock
mantis shrimp.
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He's actually neither
a shrimp nor a mantis,
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but stomatopod just doesn't
have the same ring to it.
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This guy's biggest problem
right now is real estate.
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There are more shrimps
here than there
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are crannies for them to claim.
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In a hot market, you
have to move fast.
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All that activity
works up an appetite.
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Time to bring out the big guns.
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[dramatic music]
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[whoosh]
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He's armed with the
most sophisticated
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vision of any predator on
earth and the fastest strike.
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His eyes work
independently and together
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to better target his prey.
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These eyes detect more colors
than any creature on earth
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and see polarized light.
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He closes in on his target.
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[whoosh]
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The mantis unloads the ace
up his sleeve, hammer claws.
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[thuds]
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His spring-loaded
clubs strike 50
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times faster than we can blink.
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[thuds]
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For a moment, the surrounding
water reaches the temperature
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of the surface of the sun.
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[explosion]
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You heard that right.
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[explosion]
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This crab is toast.
