Eleven Shrimp Links

Chinese shrimp painter.

Chinese shrimp paintings:

The free and stark brush strokes - a thin single line for the antenna of the shrimp, blobs of ink in grades of grey and black - suggest Oriental sensuality.

"I took up painting shrimps because it's one of the hardest things to draw," he said.

Mantis shrimp mechanics. (With videos.)

Biology of shrimps. (Shrimp or prawn?)

Shrimp photography.

Partnerships for a Shrimp.

Shrimp cartoons.

Shrimp-1st.com.

The Southern Shrimp Alliance:

The Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) is a non-profit alliance of members of the shrimp industry in eight states committed to preventing the continued deterioration of America's domestic shrimp industry and to ensuring the industry's future viability. SSA serves as the national voice for the shrimp fishermen and processors in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas.

God Hates Shrimp.

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Infected Shrimp on YouTube Treadmill

This story and its associated video, and the story of its rise to internet stardom through YouTube, make it all seem kinda silly. But biologist David Scholnick is doing important work.

Worldwide animals are at an increased risk of opportunistic pathogens. Elevations in temperature and increased areas of low oxygen, suggest that pathogen exposure of lower vertebrates and marine invertebrates are escalating.

The central hypothesis underlying my research is that infectious disease can compromise the respiratory systems of lower vertebrates and invertebrates and thereby limit the ability of animals to sustain and recover from normal activities.

Here's Scholnick at LiveScience:

"As far as I know this is the first time that shrimp have been exercised on a treadmill and it was amazing to see how well they performed," Scholnick told LiveScience. "Healthy shrimp ran and swam at treadmill speeds of up to 20 meters per minute [66 feet per minute] for hours with little indication of fatigue."

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Sick shrimp, however, had reduced aerobic performance.

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"These studies will give us a better idea of how marine animals can perform in their native habitat when faced with increasing pathogens and immunological challenges."

I may have to give the good professor a visit. More later.

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