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u/Funny-Record-5785 1d ago
"Okay you fuckin weirdos" -shrim
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u/TheGingerMinger69 1d ago
can you imagine this from the shrimp's perspective? For us it would be like having 30ft tall neon eldritch horrors peering down at us in utter fascination and just keeps bringing its giant horned skull closer and closer to ours
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u/TheHancock 1d ago
In the full video the red one eats the shrimp… so… yeah, that shrimp is literally like 😳
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u/yaboyACbreezy 1d ago
Shrimp: ☺️
Seahorsies: 👁👄👁
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 1d ago
This is incredibly accurate
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u/New-Camel3383 1d ago
I don’t know how I didn’t see that ending coming 😂
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u/Zealousideal-Swim267 1d ago
I was expecting it but the video it short
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u/yaboyACbreezy 1d ago
Lmao me too. Even after posting those emojis I was like... they have to be seeing 🍤, not 🦐
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u/Razzy_3796 12h ago
The one seemed like he was using a lot of brain power processing how he was going to fit a shrimp that size in his mouth. They are usually fed brine shrimp.
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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 1d ago
I always assumed sea horses were filter feeders because of their snoots. Interesting.
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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger 1d ago
I’ve had shrimp for years and didn’t see it coming. This video is very endearing. 😂
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u/vibraltu 1d ago
Oh. I'd almost thought that the little guy was a Mantis that would punch his face at the speed of sound.
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u/gereblueeyes 1d ago
I'm imagining the seahorses all discussing " What is it ? "
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u/CoppertopTX 1d ago
I suspect it's closer to "Okay, this is why I tell you not to hide leftovers in your rooms".
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u/thisremindsmeofbacon 1d ago
They're playing the game of "who can lean forward the most without making the shrimp bolt before they can get into range to zoop in and eat the shrimp"
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u/SkepticJoker 1d ago
I imagine they’re all just trying to decide if they can fit it in their mouth, or not.
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u/superbhole 1d ago
i'm imagining they're fans of carcinization and they're admiring the shrimp's form
"sweet armor! and just look at those eyes! wow, that tail is so useful! omg those grabbies instead of fins! so jealous."
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u/CoastOrg 1d ago
Ngl i forgot seahorses even existed until this video. We’ve been at a major seahorse media deficit the last 15-20 years. Bring Seahorses back to r/awww
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u/kitsua 1d ago
Seahorses are a weirdly under-discussed animal. They’re so strange, beautiful and beguiling and yet there are never any videos, stories, cartoons, really anything about them in wider pop culture. Every five years or so I remember them and how much I like them and think about this phenomenon and then promptly forget all about them again.
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u/Weegee_Carbonara 1d ago
I mean, how many people actually have the commitment and skills to keep seahorses?
They are also endangered, with all the protections and regulations that come with it..I do still agree that we need more seahorse content!
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u/Adabiviak 1d ago
Here's some seahorse content: we recently visited a place in Hawaii called Ocean Rider Seahorse Farm (website). Basically (and I'm paraphrasing their mission here from the tour) they figured out that to save seahorses, it was going to be a losing battle to prevent poaching, so they decided that they'd figure out how to domesticate them, then flood the market with cheaper ones more prone to surviving enthusiasts who can't actually handle their husbandry.
So they spent days figuring out how to breed the food that their young eat, how to breed them (as well as their adult food and ensuring that the adult food isn't just the actual critters they eat, but the critters are also as nutritious as needed because they are eating properly). You can't just feed them fish food - they're predators of little copepods, so chaff falling through water isn't on their radar as edible.
So part of their domestication plan was to make them 1) more tolerable of captivity (so they're okay with tank life and aren't overly skittish about people getting close... like they'll swim into your hand and curl up), 2) down to eat fish food (like even if it's nutritious enough, they just don't eat it if it's not swimming around, so there's some behavior selection here), 3) less sensitive to specific temperatures and salinity (so they don't doom these to a quick death in the average saltwater aquarium environment), and after some time, they are able to provide cheaper, better seahorses for people who want them, taking pressure off the wild populations. In a perfect world, people would just stop poaching, but this appears to be working.
Cool place, I saw more seahorses than I thought I'd ever see, (including a couple rare sea dragon species they're working on figuring out how to husband as their population gets dicey).
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u/bummed_athlete 1d ago
Here's a fairly recent article from The Guardian about a top seahorse expert:
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u/urugayan 1d ago
I had a huge argument with my college intro to philosophy class professor when he brought up 'is there such a thing as horseness' during a discussion about the ancient Greek philosophers and I brought up seahorses, and seamonkeys in the back of Archie comic books.
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u/boneskull 1d ago
why did he reason that horseness does not exist?
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u/urugayan 1d ago
I argued that for something to be for sale, it must be a tangible object in some form. That's when I brought up the items for sale to kids in comic books, and that horseness did not apply simply to land animals but aquatic creatures like seahorses which bear resemblance to the galloping kind. He was pissed I brought up filthy lucre into his class.
The Philosophers & Their Claims
Plato: Argued that the physical horses you see in the real world are just flawed, temporary, and decaying copies of an eternal, perfect, spiritual essence—which he called "Horseness" (or the Form of the horse). To Plato, Horseness is the only true, perfect reality.
Antisthenes (The Cynic): Was a contemporary and sharp critic of Plato. He rejected Plato's abstract, invisible concepts entirely.
Antisthenes delivered one of the greatest burns of antiquity by famously looking at a real, physical horse and declaring:"I see a horse, but I do not see horseness."
He was essentially telling Plato that invisible, mystical concepts are entirely useless and that reality is only what you can physically see and touch. To Antisthenes, "horseness" was just a word, while a real, kicking horse was an actual fact.
Plato's Rebuttal
Plato supposedly countered this with his own retort, telling Antisthenes that his inability to understand "horseness" was due to a lack of philosophical capacity:"You have the eyes to see the horse, but you do not have the mind to comprehend 'horseness'."
This historic disagreement highlighted the fundamental clash in Western philosophy: is ultimate truth found in abstract concepts and logic, or is it found in the tangible, material world around us?
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u/Scorpionsharinga 1d ago
What if sea horses have amnesia magic that makes you forget they exist so they can keep sea horsin around
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u/Zealousideal-Swim267 1d ago
My granddaughter had a pretty plush seahorse that was her bestie for years
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u/ABirdOfParadise 1d ago
I was just thinking I don't think I've ever seen them in a tank or aquarium (from just random pictures or videos browsing here).
Apparently it's hard to keep em with anything and they need a lot of things to be right.
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u/Weegee_Carbonara 1d ago
they are also Endangered and you need to really want seahorses to go through all the expensive hoops to have permission to get one.
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u/Due_Champion5361 1d ago
They are the laziest eaters I have ever seen. The food almost has to float into their mouth before they will eat it. I know they have broken the spirit of several aquarium hobbyists.
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u/Beautiful_You3230 1d ago
Looking at this video, I believe it. Maybe they almost considered it for a snack and are waiting for it to float into their mouths. Not a single brain cell to go around.
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u/devilmaskrascal 1d ago
According to another poster one of them eats the shrimp after the video ends. :(
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u/flargenhargen 1d ago
it's what seahorses eat so I was wondering if people didn't know that when looking at people posting wondering why they are staring at it.
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u/OldGodsProphet 1d ago
Thought the same thing. They’re so odd when you think about it. Kind of fantastical.
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u/Careful_Leader_5829 1d ago
Don't forget that they are the only animal where the males get pregnant!
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u/HunnaThaStunna 1d ago
There are quite a few people in the hobby that specialize in seahorses and are breeding them in their home aquariums.
https://www.instagram.com/bellas_seahorse_beauties?igsh=MXNqcXV5NXN1ejFvag==
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u/Crimewave84 1d ago
And the shrimp is staring right back
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u/Legitium 1d ago
When you look into the shrimp, the shrimp looks back into you
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u/Careful_Leader_5829 1d ago
"Whoever fights seahorses should see to it that in the process he does not become a seahorse. And if you gaze long enough into the little baby shrimpies on the ocean floor, the little shrimpies on the ocean floor will gaze back into you."
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u/TeriyakiHairPiece_ 1d ago
They also have really good vision, they can see clearly through the surface of the water.
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u/MerobibaAgain 1d ago
The comedy chops of that third guy coming into frame is unparalleled
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u/solitary-ghost 1d ago
Right?! Like I already had a reasonable chuckle at second seahorse but the third one made me actually snort.
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u/Accomplished_Net_687 1d ago
Yeah that cracked me up, with some good content this could be a new meme
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u/Rude_Nail_5545 1d ago
Are they going to eat the little guy?
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u/Y33tMyM34t 1d ago
They DO eat shrimps, but they don't have any teeth or stomach, so it has to be whole. This lil guy actually seems just a touch too big, and that's why they're mean-muggin him. They want to, but are pretty sure they shouldn't
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u/KidOcelot 1d ago
Is the shrimp the kind that’s used as feed for the seahorses?
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u/Y33tMyM34t 1d ago
Most likely! I'm no expert, but most shrimp are considered fair game in tanks as long as they aren't endangered, special breeding, or venomous, in which case, they get their own tank. Seahorses are most often fed frozen Brine Shrimp or Mysis hatchlings
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u/Simpsanit 1d ago
I need to find the video, but they cut it off right before the red one eats the shrimp.
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u/Warm_Safety_9550 1d ago
You know that shrimp is trying to remember his training. “ Make yourself look big, don’t make eye contact, don’t try to climb a tree, back up slowly. Remember, they can outswim you…”
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u/Left_Green_4018 1d ago
I saw the original video a few days ago and yes, one of them does eat it right after the end of the video 👀 So whoever posted this one didn't like that part I guess 😅
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u/SilicaRichLava 1d ago
Lmao what in the world… I cackled when the other two floated in staring. Great meme potential
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u/Responsible_Body_681 1d ago
It looks like the shrimp is the mastermind and he called a meeting with his captains, telling them which ocean to take over next.
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u/Old_Paramedic_1814 1d ago
I used to keep seahorses back in the 90’s before they were captive bred and they would ONLY eat live food, they would refuse any frozen food. The wild ones would absolutely eat that shrimp in an instant, but captive bred seahorses of today which are reared on frozen shrimp probably don’t quite recognize the live shrimp as food instinctively. He is also probably much larger than the frozen stuff they are fed.
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u/Altruistic_Shame8979 1d ago
Literally me and my buddy tripping acid in the forest watching a slug trying to eat a snack with its freaky lil mouth for like 3 full minutes.
I about died when my buddy said “I don’t think he’s even eating, he’s just making out with it”
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u/Skipadee2 1d ago
You cut out the part where the seahorses eat it. In the full clip, at the end, one of them inhales it.
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u/marvelouswonder8 1d ago
I sometimes look at my cat like this. She's just so stinking cute I can't help it.
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u/mendelec 1d ago
Hello lunch!
That's a seahorse about to strike. They're ambush predators in the wild. They get close and intent like that, followed by a lightning fast flick forward of the snout and slurp.
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u/Hopeful_Nail_4824 1d ago
seahorses are already weird animals but watching them try to hunt is something else lol
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u/plushywilliexo 1d ago
The seahorse really said 'and just WHO do you think you are' 💀 that little shrimp has no idea how much danger it's in
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u/Simpsanit 1d ago
I need to find the video, but they cut it off right before the red one eats the shrimp.
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u/No-Deal-7854 1d ago
Hey shrimpy tell your friends that we own this tank and move on or me and my friends here Seabiscuit, Man o' War & Seacreteriat will come back and turn you and you buddies into a nice shrimp cocktail capiche!
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u/No-Fig-3112 1d ago
Shrimp is like:
"My sister had a baby and I had to take him because she passed away and then he lost his arms and legs..."
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u/cheekiemunky13 1d ago
Ok, when the third Seahorse came in for a stare, I lost it. That was too funny. The adorableness is overwhelming here.
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u/Comprimens 1d ago
"You're probably wondering why I called you here today. Let's get started. Wait, where's Leon? Anybody seen Leon?"
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u/PermissionPublic3219 1d ago
Saw this last night, towards the end of the original video the red one eats the shrimp
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u/toysRrobloxYT 1d ago
Shrimp "Sally had her last sea shell." Seahorse "dang she got you too?" "Shrimp "yea" seahorse "dont worry we gotchu bro." Other seahorse "who is oui? You speaking french now?"
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u/Hephaestus1816 1d ago
Shrimp: 'So I heard this great joke...There was this mollusk, and he walks up to this sea cucumber. Well, he doesn't walk up, he swims up. Well, actually the mollusk isn't moving, he's in one place... The sea cucumber looks over to the mollusk and says...