Prawns have their eye stalks cut off while still alive to speed up the breeding process, animal welfare groups warn, as leading retailers reevaluate common seafood industry practices https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/prawns-have-their-eye-stalks-cut-off-whilst-still-alive-to-speed-up-breeding-process-animal-welfare-groups-warn-as-leading-retailers-begin-to-reevaluate-common-seafood-industry-practises
Despite around 440 billion shrimps being farmed each year, the species has typically faced little-to-no animal welfare protection.
Chameleon #shrimp can adapt camouflage to invasive #algae species https://phys.org/news/2025-01-chameleon-shrimp-camouflage-invasive-algae.html
Adaptation in the Anthropocene: How behavioural choice and colour change enables chameleon #prawns to camouflage on non-native #seaweeds https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.14217
"Depending on the algae they are in, they can turn red, green, brown or transparent... The new results also show that they can camouflage themselves in algae from other oceans with which they did not evolve together."
Small shrimps of the genus Hippolyte have the ability to change color to camouflage themselves in the algae where they live and escape predators. Depending on the algae they are in, they can turn red, green, brown or transparent.