Animalia Stupendium: The Mantis Shrimp
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Bored with dragons, the wizard Argomandanies turns his arcane attention to the fantastic fauna of the natural world. Welcome to Animalia Stupendium, a chronicle of Earth’s amazing biodiversity with all the enthusiasm of a fantasy monster book. In this episode, the wizard will consider the mighty mantis shrimp!
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| 0:00.0 | The world is full of magic and wonder if you know where to look and I'm obsessed with looking for it. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Simon Sinick and I host a podcast called A Bit of Optimism. |
| 0:12.0 | Each week I have a short conversation with someone who inspires me or teaches me something about life, leadership, and other curious things. |
| 0:20.0 | I hope you'll join me on the journey. |
| 0:22.0 | Listen to a bit of me on the journey. |
| 0:22.6 | Listen to a bit of optimism on the I Heart Radio app, |
| 0:25.4 | Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to Animalious Stupendium. My name is Agromandinise, Wizard to the Five Crowns. |
| 0:49.0 | Who is it for now? Inventor of the Magic Missile, entireless creature chronicle. |
| 0:55.0 | However, mere monsters hold no mystery for me these days. |
| 1:00.0 | Dragons are drab. |
| 1:01.0 | Manticores are me. |
| 1:04.0 | Instead, I turn my attention once more to the strange fauna of a land called earth. |
| 1:11.8 | Travel with me, gentle reader, as we consider the mighty Mantis shrimp. Common name, Mantis shrimp. Scientific classification, various species of the order stomatopod. |
| 1:25.6 | Frequency in range, Indian and Pacific Ocean. Size, small. Diet, various gastropods, crabs, and masts. |
| 1:36.7 | Treasure o'er, eggs, challenge rating, 11. |
| 1:41.9 | How might I describe these tiny aquatic wonders? |
| 1:46.0 | So unlike the boring Murfolk and hippocampus by, I'd study previously. |
| 1:51.0 | Most specimens are no longer than 10 centimeters, 3.9 inches or roughly two |
| 1:56.7 | lengths of a wizard's finger. It is of course a burrow-dwelling crustacean with an elongated body, stomped eyes, slender legs, and long antenna. Its appearance compares favorably to other shrimp, though their front appendages resemble the raptorial legs of the also excellent |
| 2:15.5 | terrestrial insect predator, the praying mantis, its namesake. |
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