AI: v4 (First Timer)

ARCHERFISH SHARPSHOOTERS:  One-inch archerfish babies are amazing sharpshooters from day 1.

ARCHERFISH SHARPSHOOTERS:  Six-inch archerfish babies can learn by watching their buddies trying to nail prey.

ARCHERFISH SHARPSHOOTERS:  The archerfish not only knocks its prey off the branch or wherever it might be, it also quickly figures out where it will land on the water.  This takes math-like calculations, yet the archerfish does it at twice the speed of a human being!

ARCHERFISH SHARPSHOOTERS:  In less than a thousandth of a second, the archerfish can make decisions of where to go to nab the prey.

ARCHERFISH SHARPSHOOTERS:  The first droplets moving from the archerfish’s mouth catch up with the last droplets leaving its mouth. 

ARCHERFISH SHARPSHOOTERS:  The reason for the back droplets catching up with the front droplets is that the speed of the last droplets is faster than the speed of the front droplets.  

ARCHERFISH SHARPSHOOTERS:  When the pulsed water joins together, it provides enough impact to blast an insect off a twig that it is firmly anchored to after 2 or 3 shots.

ARCHERFISH SHARPSHOOTERS:  The error the video mentions is that when the rear droplets catch up to the front droplets, the entire larger drop speeds up faster than either set of drops.

ARCHERFISH SHARPSHOOTERS:  The archerfish has the most sophisticated “squirt gun” in the Universe!

ARCHERFISH SHARPSHOOTERS:  Friction with the water is continually slowing the drop down. It doesn’t matter how fast the back droplet is going, the new speed after joining together will be continually less than the rear drop’s top speed because of this friction with the water