Can a Centipede Eat a Bird?

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Nearly four thousand black winged petrol chicks a year get gobbled by foot long centipedes. When you get large enough centipede it, well, start going after vertebrates. Lo cina eat whatever they can count, i subdue and get their legs around. They're not partically aggressive towards us, cause we're just a lot bigger, and tey can't really eat us so they're going to leave us alone.

How many legs? Why so many legs? What's a millipede versus a centipede? And again WHY SO MANY LEGS. We have just the guy for that: Diplopodologist Dr. Derek Hennen. As a person who’s spent over a decade sorting through leaf litter and naming scores of new species, Derek is truly a champion for the multi-limbed little critters. If you liked what Casey Clapp brought to Dendrology, get ready to appreciate millipedes like you never thought you would. Also: mythology gossip, world records, Taylor Swift fandom, and sniffing bugs.

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