TED Talk: Sheila Patek clocks the fastest animals

When given the topic of the environment to blog on this week I decided to look for a talk dealing with animals in the environment. I found that Sheila Patek did research on the fastest animals. During her research in 2004, Patek and her crew members found that the peacock mantis shrimp had the fastest feeding strike that she had studied. That animal held the fastest clocked speed for around 2 years until Patek continued her research and found that the trap-jaw ants could snap their jaws between 75 and 145 mph. Now that is some extremely fast eating if you ask me!! I found this talk to be interesting towards the environment because it shows that there are many more creatures in the world that you have never heard about. I had never heard of either of these two animals and to learn that they were clocked as the fastest eating animals baffled me. I have not yet, but am going to do more research on these two animals to find out what areas they are found in and what they look like. In such a big environment, people find that they don't ever know the entire atmosphere until they begin to explore, as Patek has done.