Sentences with phrase «snapping shrimp»

This work suggests that in snapping shrimp species that are less cooperative, female - female conflict within the colony has selected for queens that retain weapons at a significant cost to fecundity.

In queens of snapping shrimp species that are weakly eusocial, the researchers found strong trade - offs between fighting claw mass and egg number.

To find out, Bornbusch and colleagues determined fighting claw mass and egg number of 353 egg - bearing females from 221 colonies of six eusocial snapping shrimp species in the Caribbean.

High - speed video and fancy math have overturned an old theory about how snapping shrimp make such a racket.

«Tradeoffs between weaponry and fecundity in snapping shrimp queens vary with eusociality: Weakly eusocial queens must trade off their investment in maintaining their fighting claws or producing eggs.»

Amongst species of colonial snapping shrimp, the capacity for defense versus reproduction in queens varies with the level of cooperation, according to a study published March 14, 2018 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Sally Bornbusch from Duke University, USA, and colleagues.

By Hallie Macdougal By using computer modelling and 3 - D printing and mapping evolutionary trees, researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered a possible evolutionary pathway that shows how snapping shrimp have evolved to «snap.»

Terabytes of recordings showed that under natural circumstances, the bays were loudest at night with sounds of snapping shrimp and clicking dolphins on their group hunts.

He is using computer software to filter out noise from wind, surf, ship engines, snapping shrimp, and echolocating dolphins.

Snapping shrimp in the genus Synalpheus are the only marine organisms that are eusocial, that is, reproduction is skewed to the queens, and colonies defend their territories cooperatively.

High - speed 70,000 - frames - per - second video analysis of the bites shows that the ants have the fastest self - propelled strike in the animal kingdom, beating even the snapping shrimp.

Sponges survive handsomely on their own and can even shelter other sea creatures: Scientists found a large sponge in the Gulf of Mexico hosting 16,000 snapping shrimp and 1,000 other aquatic animals.

Pistol Shrimps, Snapping Shrimps: Alpheus species This group of shrimps is 1 to 2» long and is named for a noise they can make with one claw.