A shrimp punch is a powerful punch from a shrimp that is used as defense and can hurt predators and hurt humans as well.
Shrimps such as the mantis shrimp can punch like a human punches someone.
A mantis shrimp's powerful punch can hurt humans.
A shrimp can land before a person even realizes it is there because its strike is so quick.
Shrimp punches cause deep wounds and lacerations with rounded edges.
There is almost always a loss of tissue after a mantis strike and heavy bleeding.
The mantis shrimp is able to pack an extremely powerful punch through a spring mechanism by utilizing a saddle-shaped piece of chitin.
The first spike is due to the impact itself; the second spike is the force due to the cavitation bubble.
The mantis shrimp packs a mean punch, smashing its victims' shells with the force of a . 22 caliber bullet.
But that's not because it has particularly powerful muscles – instead of big biceps, it has arms that are naturally spring-loaded, allowing it to swing its fist like clubs to speeds up to 23 meters per second.