Physics Girl | Mantis Shrimp Punch at 40,000 fps! - Cavitation Physics @physicsgirl | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
The mantis shrimp punch is fast enough to boil water! How much force do they create, and how is physics preventing them from being any faster? Find out how mantis shrimp cause cavitation!

Deep Look talks about crazy Mantis Shrimp eyes → youtube.com/watch?v=Lm1ChtK9QDU
Check out Deep Look → youtube.com/user/KQEDDeepLook

Many thanks to Dr. Maya deVries.
http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/mdevries/biocv

Dr. Sheila Patek
https://pateklab.biology.duke.edu/mechanics-movement-mantis-shrimp

Papers
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-016-3667-5
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3182/9/1/016014/meta
nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6855/full/413477a0.html
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/208/19/3655

Creator: Dianna Cowern
Editor: Jabril Ashe
Animations: Kyle Norby
Research: Kate Furby
Videography: Eric Birkemeier
youtube.com/channel/UCpgtBGMKxo3Xy8kQ-q4hVrg

Thanks to Kyle Kitzmiller for providing the vacuum chamber! I forgot him in the credits.

Maya/Kate footage: Geoff Palomino and Debbie Meyer


Force Graph Credits:
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/208/19/3655
“Extreme impact and cavitation forces of a biological hammer: strike forces of the peacock mantis shrimp Odontodactylus scyllarus” - S. N. Patek, R. L. Caldwell, Journal of Experimental Biology 2005 208: 3655-3664; doi: 10.1242/jeb.01831

National Geographic Video
youtube.com/watch?v=PpW9RIy7Gus
Smithsonian Channel Video
youtube.com/watch?v=DtNAqK_V-lg&t=47s
Earth Unplugged
youtube.com/watch?v=ti2Uoc1RXuQ&t=34s
Wichita Entertainment
youtube.com/watch?v=ZxeMSETmS7c