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Snails versus Slugs (and Friends)!
Posted by ableiman on March 27, 2008
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We have brought you the outstanding time lapse photography of Mochimochi Land in the past, but these new works are breathtaking. No-holds-barred snail on slug rumpus! “The Great Foot Race!” Friends below the fold
Butterflies Dupe Ants, Trigger “Smell” Race
Posted by Benny Bleiman on January 3, 2008 A new scientific paper has shown a strange, deceptive adaptation in the Maculinea butterflies of North Western Europe–an adaptation that has caused a genetic race between the butterflies and many different species of ants. The butterflies’ caterpillar larvae emit a powerful smell that tricks the ants into believing that they are in fact ant larvae.…