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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Fun fact I like to share with everyone who enjoys shrimp. Up until the ~~90s~~ 80s they were very difficult to breed in captivity. They just wouldn’t reproduce.

Until someone figured out that it you cut out one of their eyes, they will readily breed. Nobody really knows why, but they snip off one of the eye stalks on the females to get them to breed.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago

Oh...geeze. This read like a note found in a Resident Evil game...

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Fucked up man. Glad I became vegan

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The fear of death does tend to make creatures want to reproduce.

It is fucked though.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That’s not it actually. Current theory is it has something to do with the overall decreased sensation of sunlight indicating it’s mating season or something. They won’t develop mature ovaries with both eyes.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There's also hormones they think are removed when the stalk is removed.

But really, no animal likes being injured. And they have no idea what else is going to get cut off.

If some other thing that's observing humans cuts the dominant arm off a man without any access to females, they're going to suggest doing that limits how much they want to masturbate.

When in reality they just can't masturbate anymore.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Clearly the subject of the study is unfamiliar with “the stranger”

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe that's what the study is for

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear what they do to pigs

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll bite.. what do they do to pigs?

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I know they burn off the tails over here, for starters. There's probably more tho.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

how did they discover that? who's just going around cutting random parts of swimmy guys??

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Maybe some bad bitch shrimp got in a knife fight with a lobster, lost her eye and just went ham

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

According to where I learned it, in high enough densities in concrete tanks, some shrimp would grind their own eyestalks off on the side of the tank. Some farmer put two and two together.

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Jeebus christ. That’s… horrible

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

SLPT: Poke out your girl's eyeball to get some guaranteed hard lovin.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is an indoor shrimp farm in Indiana. Really. They also claim they farm sustainably.

https://www.rdmshrimp.com/

Downside: they don't shell them or cut any bits off or anything. That's your job.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Any bits but the eyes, apparently.

[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Fun fact

Not fun at all