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Story of a silent Shrimp


Story of a silent Shrimp

I was called a gentle Giant once. Yet, I chose to be a silent Shrimp.

Silent Shrimp on the ocean floor, floating on a coral reef.

Minding my own business until I am captured and cooked.

My future plan is to avoid the dreadful fate, to live longer.

A silent Shrimp Life.


Of course, if you are not allergic, I assume you may have eaten shrimp. There are few fascinating things I noticed about the creatures over the years. And following is a fact sheet about Shrimp. This is not a cooking lesion unfortunately and if you are looking for how to cook there are plenty of articles there.


coral and fish
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Shrimp facts.

Shrimp farming is a 50-billion-dollar industry! Could you believe that? That is more than total budget of many countries of the world.

Although I call it silent Shrimp actually some Shrimp are not silent at all. Pistol shrimp for example is known to cause a sonic boom under the water. (Sonic boom is a condensed form of a shockwave created when the ultrasonic source is travelling faster than the speed of sound)

And they are not as innocent as we imagine as they are predators themselves for small animals.

Their stomach is in between brain and the heart. Maybe they are just in front of us in the evolution, considering the conduct of humans in the nature.


The best definition of Happiness given by a Dancing Shrimp.

Have you ever seen a shrimp dance? I suggest you watch the Under-pressure song played in the Film Happy feet. It is one of the most favorite songs of mine where I first heard it in the film. Later only I came to know it was sung by Queen and found out more of my favorites were sung by the band. There is a scene in the film where shrimp under the layer of ice is dancing to the vibrations created by sea Lions above the ground. In a momentary release from existent terrors of existence. Or in happiness.


under pressure song in happy feet

The man who knows everything about Shrimp

If you want to know everything about Shrimp. You should meet Mr. Bubba from Forest Gump movie. He knew everything you want to know about shrimp. Unfortunately, He could not survive the war to practice his knowledge. It shows sometimes even knowledge and tactics even would not work as there are other forces working out there. But Forrest Gump on the other had had plenty of Luck, from the beginning of the movie till the end, when everyone else was failing. Even a hard storm benefitted him when all the other shrimp boats were destroyed leaving them to harvest the shrimp as much as they want. But why one man's misfortune is someone Elses fortune? Or is it just another random happening?


Forrest Gump Bubba on Shrimp Scene

Shrimp in Biodiversity/ Echo Tanks

I will end the Boring topic of shrimp with one more interesting video I found on my random you tube recommendations. Have you ever tried to maintain an aquarium in your home? I can remember my brother used to have a fish tank at place. But after a while water gets dirty and needed change. Often it is a task taking hours of time to change the tank back to its previous state. But, as you will see there are aquariums built as a balanced echo system so that such changes of water is not necessary frequently as it sustains itself, and part of living, shrimp are used in most of them to create the balance. Think that you are having a small underwater forest inside your house? Sounds cool right? But it seems to be a very delicate task to create these echo balanced fish tanks.

Echo tank biodiversity tank

So here I will end the random collection about Shrimp.


In Summary

Story of a silent Shrimp:

  • Shrimp are important crustaceans of our echo system which has far more important role in the environment than being ending up on our plate.

  • Happiness according to shrimp is a momentary release from existent terrors of our existence.

  • We do not have answers to why one man's misfortune is another man's fortune.

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