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[Mantibama]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17895

Neat, huh?

 

[Katnapper]

Wow... :huh: what they can do these days!

 

[PhilinYuma]

Very cool, Bryce, thanx!

 

[Rick]

Interesting.

 

[ABbuggin]

I find it cool also.

Hmmm, where are all the animal activists when something like this happens............

 

[Morpheus uk]

Pretty cruel i reckon : /

 

[Rick]

I find it cool also. Hmmm, where are all the animal activists when something like this happens............

Well it wasn't a fish. Now if they did it to a fish..............

 

[Katnapper]

Well it wasn't a fish. Now if they did it to a fish..............

:lol: I was thinking along the same lines, but didn't comment.

 

[Ntsees]

Yeah, I read this a few weeks ago. It shows how much we've advanced.

 

[Morpheus uk]

What ever it is zapping it will obviously cause it stress.

 

[revmdn]

That is kind of crazy.

 

[Rick]

What ever it is zapping it will obviously cause it stress.

Just a beetle. It doesn't have a backbone or anything you know.

 

[Mantibama]

Ruh roh raggy.... Not again.... :lol:

 

[Morpheus uk]

So you would glady keep disturbing mantids and keep slapping them around because they can even get stressed now?

 

[Katnapper]

So you would glady keep disturbing mantids and keep slapping them around because they can even get stressed now?

Who said anything about "slapping mantids around?" :huh: I'm sure no conscientious keeper would do that.

 

[Morpheus uk]

I was comparing it to electrically shocking another insect

 

[AmandaLynn]

I was comparing it to electrically shocking another insect

Who said anything about electrically shocking insects? I don't think you really know enough about this experiment to assume that the insects are being harmed.

 

[Opivy]

Ahh, I saw something about this a while back.

Here it is!

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/09/there_is...ay_about_th.php

so awesome.