Shrimps are sea animals that can be eaten.
Let’s find out more about the shrimps!
- Shrimps are decapod crustaceans.
- They have elongated bodies.
- They also have a primarily swimming mode of locomotion.
- Any small crustacean that looks like a shrimp tends to be called as one.
- Americans love shrimps since they eat approximately 1 billion pounds
- Every year more than 5 billion pounds of shrimps are produced.
- National Shrimp Scampi Day is celebrated every year on the 29th of April in the U.S.A.
- The scampi shrimp is the one boiled.
- But there is a specific National Shrimp Day for the Americans, and it is celebrated on the 9th of May.
- On average a shrimp is 6 inches long.
- The longest ever found was… 16 inches.
- Shrimps are omnivorous, which means they can eat anything.
- Some shrimps though are specialized for particular modes of feeding.
- Shrimps live from a year up to 6.5.
- There are 16 stages of life.
- Shrimps are born from… eggs.
- There are more than 128 species of shrimp.
- Every shrimp is born male.
- While they grow up they become either female or remain males.
- The average shrimp has 10 legs.
- An uncooked shrimp is called “green”.
- Shrimps can be found almost in every seafloor such as coasts, rivers, and lakes.
- Their colors are influenced by their inhabitants.
- They do that in order to fit in with surroundings.
- The ones in tropical or sub-tropical habitats are brightly colored.
- They swim forward by paddling with swimmerets.
- Their brains are very small as expected.
- Despite that fact, they tend to show complex behaviors.
- A female shrimp may lay 1.500 to 14.000 eggs.
- Shrimps are eaten by other fish or whales.
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