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| - The mantis shrimp is a benthic, aquatic life form found at the bottom of the sea. It is indicated by a circular shadow, and diving is the only way of capturing it.
- Called "sea grasshoppers" by ancient Assyrians, "prawn killers" in Australia, "the tiny death" in Russia, and now sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" by modern divers — because of the relative ease the creature has in mutilating any appendage — mantis shrimp sport powerful claws that they use to attack and kill prey by spearing, shredding, stunning, lacerating, mangling, or dismemberment. Mantis shrimp can break through aquarium glass and bone with a single strike from this weapon. The punch of the mantis shrimp is also said to be the only thing that can penetrate the beard of Chuck Norris, other than Chuck's own roundhouse kicks. Norris has refused to comment on this, however.
- In Japanese cuisine, the mantis shrimp is eaten boiled as a sushi topping, and occasionally, raw as sashimi; and is called shako (蝦蛄). In Cantonese cuisine, the mantis shrimp is a popular dish known as "pissing shrimp" (攋尿蝦, Mandarin pinyin: lài niào xiā, modern Cantonese: laaih niuh hā) because of their tendency to shoot a jet of water when picked up. After cooking, their flesh is closer to that of lobsters than that of shrimp, and like lobsters, their shells are quite hard and require some pressure to crack.
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| - Called "sea grasshoppers" by ancient Assyrians, "prawn killers" in Australia, "the tiny death" in Russia, and now sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" by modern divers — because of the relative ease the creature has in mutilating any appendage — mantis shrimp sport powerful claws that they use to attack and kill prey by spearing, shredding, stunning, lacerating, mangling, or dismemberment. Mantis shrimp can break through aquarium glass and bone with a single strike from this weapon. The punch of the mantis shrimp is also said to be the only thing that can penetrate the beard of Chuck Norris, other than Chuck's own roundhouse kicks. Norris has refused to comment on this, however. The mantis shrimp is also the national bird of Punchoslavia, where its powerful strikes are a source of inspiration for the pugilistic populace.
- The mantis shrimp is a benthic, aquatic life form found at the bottom of the sea. It is indicated by a circular shadow, and diving is the only way of capturing it.
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