Four Legs Good, 100 Legs... er...
If you read boingboing you probably caught this article about a guy who found a Venezuelan centipede in his London home. Well that's all disgusting enough.
But I'm watching David Attenborough's 'Life in the Undergrowth' just now and he told me the real dirt on these foot-long beasts.
They catch bats in flight and eat them. Bats. Seriously. They climb up a cave wall, and hang there to catch a passing bat. And they're poisonous.
It makes cockroaches look kinda cute.
† anaglyph 8:54 PM
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Eek! I get that watery feeling in my mouth like I'm going to vomit when reading about these things.
They make cockroaches look downright cuddly.
Dang.
Am I the only one that thinks that's kind of cool?
Where can I get one that catches cockroaches?
cooooooool.
jedimacfan: Yeah, see, that's the evidence that there is no God. You'd feel OK about these things if they had some redeeming feature. It's like how the two great feral pests of country Australia are serrated tussock and rabbits. If the rabbits ate only the serrated tussock, no problem! But the rabbits eat everything except serrated tussock.
Joe: Yes.
I like Mr Attenborough immemsely. In the spider episode he jumps when one of them lunges for him, then giggles. How endearing is that?
I woonta figgerd it possible, but I think ya foun th only dumb crittr that atchualy dserves t die.
Well, fine. I'm alright with that.
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