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Snapping Shrimp Make More Noise in Warmer Oceans

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🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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As oceans heat up, the ubiquitous noise of snapping shrimp should increase, posing issues for other species and human seagoing ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.3

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0:42.3

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0:46.3

How about noisy creatures known as snapping shrimp?

0:51.3

Warm temperate and tropical coastal waters around the world are teeming with these noisy

0:56.4

little creatures. They snap their claws so fast that they produce a bubble. When the bubble bursts,

1:03.6

it makes a loud, popping sound. It's a sort of persistent background noise, these snapping

1:09.1

shrimp kind of crackling. Aaron Mooney, a marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

1:15.6

The shrimp produced the loud sound to stun prey.

1:18.6

So how would these shrimp be affected by oceans getting warmer in coming years?

1:23.6

To find out, Mooney and his colleague Ashley Lillis analyzed audio recordings of the critters in their natural environment.

1:31.1

They also performed lab experiments with snapping shrimp collected from the wild in water of varying temperatures.

1:37.7

And they found that when water heats up, the shrimp starts snapping more.

1:42.0

And the water soundscape gets louder.

1:47.0

They shared their findings in February at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020 in San Diego. The researchers aren't sure what's causing this

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