Nature gave this shrimp a GUN (but it still needs a BODYGUARD)

Nature gave this shrimp a GUN (but it still needs a BODYGUARD) There is an animal on the ocean floor the size of your finger that is armed with a gun. It does not bite its prey and it does not grab it. It snaps one oversized claw shut so fast that it rips a hole in the water, and when that hole collapses it knocks a fish out cold from a body length away. The flash is briefly hotter than four thousand degrees, close to the surface of the sun. The bang is one of the loudest sounds in the entire ocean. And the animal pulling the trigger is almost completely blind. In this video we get into how the pistol shrimp actually works, from the cocked-claw mechanism that fires a bubble instead of a bullet, to the flash of light so fast the shrimp can never see its own gunshot, to the time these tiny creatures jammed military sonar in World War Two and gave submarines a place to hide. Then we get to the twist, which is that the deadliest gunslinger in the sea survives by hiring a fish as a bodyguard. WHAT YOU'LL MEET: The claw that fires a hole in the water, not a punch The collapsing bubble that briefly rivals the surface of the sun The 100-nanosecond flash of light the shrimp itself cannot see How a colony of these jammed WWII sonar and hid submarines Why the fastest gun in the ocean needs a nearly-blind owner and a goby bodyguard If you love the animals that quietly break every rule of nature, subscribe. The list keeps getting worse.