American Giant Millipede
Sep 14, 2021 06:34:42 #
Isn't he pretty? (As long as he isn't crawling on me with all those feet!)
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Sep 14, 2021 17:30:09 #
roxiemarty wrote:
Isn't he pretty? (As long as he isn't crawling on me with all those feet!)
Beautiful shots - if I'm far enough away
Sep 15, 2021 06:15:26 #
We were told they were toxic when I was a child. Good photos.
Difficult for humans to learn to walk with 2 feet... wow the system to control Mili-feet must be a real hard-wired system.
"It's a distributed control system. Each segment has a ganglion that acts as a small "brain" to control its pair of legs. The centipede brain sends a go signal and the ganglion handles the motion, coordinating its timing with signals from the segments ahead and behind. There's also a Central Pattern Generator (CPG), an which is an intrasegmental network of neurons which generates a rhythmic output, that keeps them all in step."
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4un1k5/how_do_centipedesmillipedes_control_all_of_their/
Difficult for humans to learn to walk with 2 feet... wow the system to control Mili-feet must be a real hard-wired system.
"It's a distributed control system. Each segment has a ganglion that acts as a small "brain" to control its pair of legs. The centipede brain sends a go signal and the ganglion handles the motion, coordinating its timing with signals from the segments ahead and behind. There's also a Central Pattern Generator (CPG), an which is an intrasegmental network of neurons which generates a rhythmic output, that keeps them all in step."
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4un1k5/how_do_centipedesmillipedes_control_all_of_their/
Sep 15, 2021 06:17:27 #
dpullum wrote:
We were told they were toxic when I was a child. ... (show quote)
Wow! I'm a klutz on 2 feet! That is amazing information...........you learn something new every day. As far as toxic, I definitely did not touch it!
Sep 15, 2021 11:33:50 #
I think I remember reading somewhere that these things can bite. 😲
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