The Insane Biology of: The Praying Mantis

Get a lifetime membership to Nebula here: http://go.nebula.tv/lifetime?ref=realscience Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-the-insane-biology-of-the-praying-mantis Thanks to Jordi Woerts for letting us use his incredible footage of the mantis eating the frog www.youtube.com/@UC6E_IJAa8aJCB1JkjPBOw6g www.jordiwoerts.com Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/jwwlphoto) And thanks the Marjorie McBride for letting us use her clip of the praying mantis eating the hummingbird Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/marjorie_mcbride_photography) And thanks to Christopher Oufiero and the TU Mantis Lab https://wp.towson.edu/coufiero/ And Jenny Read and Newcastle University https://www.jennyreadresearch.com/ Links to my things: (https://www.patreon.com/realscience) Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/stephaniesammann) Images Courtesy of Getty Images Thanks to our Patreon Supporters: Sasank Grandhi Eric Ypsilantis Robert Thompson Keith Skipper Credits: Writer/Narrator: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1) Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations) Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel) Producer: Brian McManus (watchnebula.com/realengineering) REFERENCES [1] https://passion-entomologie.fr/phylogeny-of-dictyoptera-origin-of-cockroaches-termites-and-mantis-religions/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenopus_coronatus#cite_note-5 [3] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/673858#:~:text=coronatus%20is%20indistinguishable%20from%20the,these%20pollinators%20as%20prey%20items. [4] Brackenbury, J. (1999). Flight and Wing Kinematics. In The Praying Mantids. The John Hopkins University Press. [5] https://sci-hub.scrongyao.com/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1976.tb00818.x [6] Edmunds, M. (1999). Ethology of Defense Against Predators. In The Praying Mantids. The John Hopkins University Press. [7] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5673847/ [8] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221500086X#:~:text=Once%20airborne%2C%20they%20then%20smoothly,jump%20with%20a%20precise%20landing. [9] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0098 [10] https://bioone.org/journals/the-wilson-journal-of-ornithology/volume-129/issue-2/16-100.1/Bird-Predation-By-Praying-Mantises-A-Global-Perspective/10.1676/16-100.1.full [11] Yager, D. (1999). Hearing. In The Praying Mantids. The John Hopkins University Press. [12] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-020-01405-x [13] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Schematic-representation-of-the-compound-eye-of-a-Mantis-The-black-pupil-is-only-visible_fig2_362902063 [14] https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/220/14/2502/18621/Stereopsis-in-animals-evolution-function-and [15] https://sci-hub.scrongyao.com/10.1038/302821a0 [16] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30014-9 [17]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29628622/ [18] https://jor.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=28067 [19] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4298199/ [20] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0811