And they’re fucking delicious.
Fun fact I like to share with everyone who enjoys shrimp. Up until the
90s80s they were very difficult to breed in captivity. They just wouldn’t reproduce.Until someone figured out that it you cut out one of their eyes, they will readily breed. Nobody really knows why, but they snip off one of the eye stalks on the females to get them to breed.
That’s fucked.
Fucked up man. Glad I became vegan
The fear of death does tend to make creatures want to reproduce.
It is fucked though.
That’s not it actually. Current theory is it has something to do with the overall decreased sensation of sunlight indicating it’s mating season or something. They won’t develop mature ovaries with both eyes.
Are shrimps bugs, though?
Depends on the definition of bug. Entemological true bugs are a very specific class of insects, but the term bug was used to describe any arthropod for significantly longer than proper taxonomy has been around.
So if you’re a biologist, no, if you’re an anthropologist, yes.
Someone covered in brine shrimp would be more likely to feel covered in bugs than covered in marine crustaceans though.
So is crab and molluscs
I’ve been saying that for years and I call them water bugs
