Stomatopod High-speed Strike Video

[Gonodactylus]

Our paper in Nature on how stomatopods strike is now out (April 21) and one of my colleagues has put on his page some video clips of the strike along with a great annimation of how the mechanisms works. It can be found at:

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~korff/stomatopods.html

Roy

 

[Dlckwood]

Cool, very interesting!
DLCKWOOD

 

[ATLDrtybird7]

That is really cool! That is the kind of stuff I really wanted to do going into college, but I heard there is a shortage of jobs pretaining to that kind of researdh ( a shame too, because that would eb my deram job) so I setteled for microbiology at USF, here I am, a junior, and I am wishing I went the other path... : (
Mike