Marsh grass shrimp (Palaemonetes vulgaris) are impressively fast and nimble swimmers, as anyone who has seen them zipping about tide pools at the beach can attest. Nils Tack, a postdoctoral researcher ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine that you’re a grass shrimp. Now, imagine that you’re a rational grass shrimp, and that you have a choice of living in an environment with relatively high levels of dioxin, ...
As omnivores, grass shrimp are thought to feed on small bits of plant and animal material in tidal marshes and find protection from predators amongst the stems of grasses growing there. Because living ...