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Monday, November 12, 2007

Invertebrates 2: Vertebrates 0

If you aren't keeping score, Invertebrates 1: Vertebrates 0 was an octopus taking down a shark. Here we have a Vietnamese Giant Centipede (named Father Christmas by the proprietors of the YouTube video), Scolopendra subspinipes, taking down a typical mouse. This video was being watched by my intro bio students this morning while doing a "Diversity of Life" lab. This group was doing the animals and picked out the leech to do there class presentation on over any vertebrates. I am proud I must say. When discussing the leech reproduction, they referred to it "sexytime". Nice.

5 comments:

  1. That is the strangest use of Beethoven's Choral Symphony yet. The second movement of the 3rd Symphony would have been more appropriate: it's a funeral march.

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  2. Mouse? Bah. Snatching a bat in mid-flight - now that's hardcore. As seen in this video from David Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth.

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  3. That was brilliant ed! i bought Life in the Undergrowth in April with the entire BBC Planet Earth series. I still haven't gotten around to watching it yet. Maybe I'll treat myself to watching it with a nice glass of Port when I finish my comprehensive exams in 2 weeks.

    peter, I think I'd prefer Feelin groovy by Simon & Garfunkel. Something happy and upbeat.

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  4. Kevin - you'll love it! A must-watch for any invert fan - the macro photography alone is worth it.

    Have a care in episode 4, which is titled something like "Intimate Relations" but really should have been called "Why Wasps are B*st*rds".

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