Speed Demons (courtesy of sciencefriday.com)

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I just listened a podcast episode of Science Friday, as their video of the week on 

their website they described the video below. After just having watched it I 

thought I might share it with you (it is about four minutes long):

Mini Speed Demons

From mantis shrimp to trap-jaw ants, some of the fastest organisms on the 

planet are ones you may never have heard of. Biologist Sheila Patek, of the 

University of Massachusetts Amherst, says the creatures she studies move at 

speeds that are hard for us to imagine, let alone perceive. Patek shared some of 

her high-speed video and explained how these organisms pull off their top 

speeds. footage and images courtesy of sheila patek, patrick green, roy caldwell. 

music by philip lynch, freemusicarchive. produced by flora lichtman