24M views · 107K reactions | Armed with the most sophisticated vision and fastest strike of any predator on Earth, the mantis shrimp is an unsuspecting threat. | National Geographic | Facebook

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26 reactions · 4 comments | QUIZ: Which animal has the most sophisticated eyesight? ANSWER: The mantis shrimp It’s #WorldSightDay — focusing global attention on blindness and vision impairment. If you’re interested in how other animals see the world, including the work of Academy Fellow Justin Marshall whose study of mantis shrimp has led to the advancement of technologies from satellites to camera sensors. | Australian Academy of Science | Facebook

This school of bumphead parrotfish were spotted by our monitoring team on Mantis Reef on the far north of the Great Barrier Reef. Bumphead parrotfish are the world’s largest species of parrotfish, and graze on both living coral and algal covered surfaces on the reef. While grazing, they scrape off some of the limestone structure of the reef, crunching it down and eventually excreting it as sand. You can see this ‘deposit’ as a sandy cloud. Each fish can eat over five tons of reef material each y

223K views · 3.5K reactions | Why the praying mantis eats its mate. #Science #Biology #Research #Animals #Zoology | Hashem Al-Ghaili | Facebook