Shrimp exercise

[deone]

I don't know if the mods will close this, but i just had to share this videos to all the shrimp lovers out there!



Enjoy!

[Evilsands]

Wouldn't the prawn die of exhaustion? lol

[Navanod]

I'm not sure why I need to close this, but this seemed to be a legit experiment (minus that soundtrack) similar to a test we call "force swimming test" in the lab animal research field. However, that's mainly for use on higher mammals to test their state of depression (normally to test anti-depression drugs). The more depressed an animal, the faster they give up and allow themselves to drown (at this point, they'll be rescued of course). Such tests are rare now because of ethical concerns.

Since a shrimp cannot technically drown and it's pretty strange to want to understand if it's depressed, this is either a metabolic/endurance study or a coordination study (notice that there's a white thing on the treadmill that makes the shrimp jump?).

[deone]

I'm not sure why I need to close this, but this seemed to be a legit experiment (minus that soundtrack) similar to a test we call "force swimming test" in the lab animal research field. However, that's mainly for use on higher mammals to test their state of depression (normally to test anti-depression drugs). The more depressed an animal, the faster they give up and allow themselves to drown (at this point, they'll be rescued of course). Such tests are rare now because of ethical concerns.

Since a shrimp cannot technically drown and it's pretty strange to want to understand if it's depressed, this is either a metabolic/endurance study or a coordination study (notice that there's a white thing on the treadmill that makes the shrimp jump?).

Thanks for the detailed explanation! But i would believe most of the lab experiements are not very ethical.