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Friday, August 10, 2012

Swimming Cricket


   Now this is my dream!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/19102700

   I need to get myself one of those.
   If you think about what they say enough, you can figure out that they are making up some of the facts. For example they say,

"Isolation in the caves has made the swimming cricket an apex predator"

   How do they know that the cricket is an apex predator? They would have had to spend a lot of time in the cave observing this cricket, and searching for other creatures that could possibly be able to kill the cricket. If they had done this then they would have almost definitely come across several more crickets. And anyways, how do they know that it preys on anything but very small creatures? Just because an insect has a painful bite in defense doesn't mean that they use that for hunting other prey. I have caught a long-horn beetle before, and it bit me, that still doesn't mean that it is a predator. That is only a defense.

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