Mantis...How intelligent do they get?

[daniella3d]

Sure show the level of intelligence of certain people though

Acting dumb, looking dumb, being dumb....but I am more interested in mantis!

Originally Posted by mandyplo

Ha. Haha. Can't stop giggling. Hehe hahahahahaha HAAA!! I don't think the creator of this thread is as amused as I am.

[reefwars]

Haha don't listen to these guys here's the real proof I think after this he did Sundays crossword puzzle

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source...FUBhkEpEZpgVJw

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by reefwars

Haha don't listen to these guys here's the real proof I think after this he did Sundays crossword puzzle

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source...FUBhkEpEZpgVJw

In ink even!

[Leah]

Originally Posted by burgerchow

They are really smart. I even taught my peacock mantis how to flush the toilet

OMG! Fricken hilarious. Sorry!!! But it made me laugh too!

[asylumdown]

They do have the most sophisticated colour vision of any animal on earth by a full order of magnitude. I wouldn't be surprised if they could tell the difference between individual people and get habituated to the one that always feeds them, but I would call that conditioning more than I would call it intelligence.

[burgerchow]

they have the best eyesight of any living creature. Also, they are the fastest animal ( striking speed that is ). The speed of a mantis's strike has been equated to the speed of a 22 caliber bullet.
My peacock mantis was pretty smart. He died about 4 mos ago. Don't know why, maybe old age. He was about 8 inches long, 2 inches wide. I had him for about 2 years, and Roger from Roger's aquatics had him for a couple of years before me.

[Casey8]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

I have a mantis shrimp in my tank which I rescued from a piece of liverock about 8 months ago. It was the size of a large amphipod when I got it, and it's now 2 1/2". She's quite intelligent. I trained her to come to pick the food from the pipette, and she pick a few mysis from it and run back into her cave.

For the last few days she was not coming, and I did not see her at all. So today I put some mysis shrimps in front of her cave and the current took them inside the liverock cave. I was waiting to see if she would come out but she did not and I thougth she might be dead, but suddendly she came out of there with a mysis and threw it back at me. She went back inside the cave and got another mysis and threw it at me and she did that for the 3 mysis I had put there, one by one.

My gues is that she's molting so she does not want to eat but rather then letting those mysis rot inside the liverock cracks, she returned them to me. I picked them up with the pipette and she went back inside her cave.

I was quite impressed that she did not simply let those inside to rot there. She also have many entrances to her large cave so she could have pitched the mysis out through other openings but each time she returned to the front door and pitched the mysis in my direction. It was really cute

I thought that was quite intelligent of her

Have you had a mantis do something intelligent? if so, what was it? I would love to hear your mantis story!

Very cute story about your mantis, thanks for sharing. I am always fascinated and enjoy reading about any kind of intelligent animal. I think they are all smarter than we thought.

[daniella3d]

So I get that they can live quite long, 4 years and more and have a wide range of adult size.

I wonder where one could buy a mantis because I never seen them sold in any stores I know in my area. Did you buy yours locally or ordered it via the Internet?

Originally Posted by burgerchow

they have the best eyesight of any living creature. Also, they are the fastest animal ( striking speed that is ). The speed of a mantis's strike has been equated to the speed of a 22 caliber bullet.
My peacock mantis was pretty smart. He died about 4 mos ago. Don't know why, maybe old age. He was about 8 inches long, 2 inches wide. I had him for about 2 years, and Roger from Roger's aquatics had him for a couple of years before me.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by burgerchow

they have the best eyesight of any living creature. Also, they are the fastest animal ( striking speed that is ). The speed of a mantis's strike has been equated to the speed of a 22 caliber bullet.

actualy there are a few myths there. they don't have the best eye sight but rather a unique eye structure that lets then see more colors than any other creature (that we know of)

as for the striking speed yes it is the fastest motion of any animal, but no where near the speed of a 22. what was commenly said was the force of a 12"+ mantis strike could be comparable to the force of a 22, not the speed.

Do I like them yup they are entertaining, and neat, they used to be quite common 10 years ago in the hobby, but like any other fad you don't see them much any more.

(for the person wanting to know where to get them)
normaly unless you special order one you will only get them as hitchhickers in live rock orders. I got six in my 50lb order about 12 years ago, two didn't make it I gave two away and I kept two.

Steve

[daniella3d]

How long did they live?

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

(for the person wanting to know where to get them)
normaly unless you special order one you will only get them as hitchhickers in live rock orders. I got six in my 50lb order about 12 years ago, two didn't make it I gave two away and I kept two.

Steve