2014-09-01

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Music is "Bottles" by A Shell In The Pit.

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The bulk of the information in this video came from these papers.

Dr. Sheila Patek:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v428/n6985/full/428819a.html

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~claverie/Thomas%20Claverie/Claverie%20et%20al.,%202010.pdf

"The stomatopod dactyl club: a formidable damage-tolerant biological hammer"

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6086/1275.abstract

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