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African thanatosis of arthropods !

I haven't found much info about thanatosis as a defence mechanism of African invertebrates. Here is a Wiki article about thanatosis to get us started. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_death

Posted on September 18, 2018 01:35 PM by botswanabugs botswanabugs | 2 comments | Leave a comment

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The aim of this project is to find out which animals in Africa defend themselves by pretending to be dead and play possum.

botswanabugs created this project on September 18, 2018
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