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Sheila Patek Talks at TED About Measuring Animal Movements

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Watch this video from TED featuring legendary biologist Sheila Patek on HowStuffWorks. She gives a wide-ranging talk on the effort to measure the world's fastest animal movements, using video cameras recording at 20,000 frames per second. The hyper fast animal in question - the mantis shrimp. See how measuring animal movements work in this video from TED (www.ted.com).

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