High-Speed Video Exposes Snapping Shrimp
Dec 1, 2000 — Scientists from the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands, and their colleagues in Germany have solved the mystery of how snapping shrimp make their distinctive noises. Biologists had theorized that the crustaceans produce the 210-dB snaps, which stun or kill prey and predators, by clamping shut their larger claw. Performing in front of a 40,500-fps video camera, however, the shrimp revealed that they use cavitating bubbles. The researchers describe in the Sept. 22 issue ...