If sufficient rain falls the next year to form another lake, the eggs hatch, and once again the shrimps pass rapidly through their cycle of growth, adulthood, egg-laying, and death.

• 如果第二年降水量足以形成一个新的湖泊,虾卵就会孵化,再次经历由生长,到成熟,再到孵卵,最后到死亡的短暂的生命历程。