Really fascinating. Smart adaptable little critter.
But isn’t it frying itself out in the sun? Suicidal Shrimp?
Can we breed them? This could be the start of a new fast-food chain specializing in fried shrimp.
Now we know how to get cats out of trees. Send shrimp up there after them, and the cats will chase them down again….🐱🐱🐱🦐🦐🦐
SO, when parents tell their children not to eat so many shrimp, because they don’t grow on trees, they were lying?
The line “shrimp is the fruit of the sea” was famously said by the character Benjamin Buford “Bubba” Blue (played by actor Mykelti Williamson) in the 1994 film Forrest Gump. Is there a sea there?
Tree shrimp. Cyclops mountains.
Sounds like an H.P. Lovecraft story.
I would not want to go into those mountains:
“Several of the team suffered illness and injury. Davranoglou’s arm was broken in two places while another team member contracted malaria, and a third had a leech stuck to their eye for a day and a half before a hospital team could remove it. Despite the perils of the Cyclops Mountains, they’ve lost no love for the landscape.”
Shrimp in trees, and leeches on eyes...
A leech on the eyeball requires immediate medical attention.
Go to an emergency room or see an eye doctor (ophthalmologist) right away.
Do not try to pull the leech off, as forcibly removing it can leave its mouthparts stuck to your eye, leading to serious infection or corneal damage.
Follow these steps while seeking help:
Flush with saline solution: Gently rinsing your eye with a sterile saline solution (salt water) is the safest method to encourage the leech to detach on its own.
Do not use tweezers or salt crystals:
Attempting to pull the leech off or putting raw salt crystals directly into your eye can cause severe scratches on your cornea.
Expect minor bleeding:
Leeches secrete an anticoagulant (hirudin), so the bite may bleed lightly for a few hours after the leech is removed.
Doctors will typically treat this with topical antibiotics and steroids to prevent infection.
Sounds like Yoda’s paradise.
Still an interesting story although slightly Lovecraftian with the leech-on-the-eye thing....
Mid-continent aquaculture....Pacific White Shrimp grown in tanks in Iowa! (I do not think they ship to the FL Panhandle!) They do sell them a couple of miles from here!
https://www.midlandseafood.com/
I wonder if this is a distant relative of the Pacific Northwest tree octopus