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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:07 am    Post subject: David Attenborough - Giant Centipede Reply with quote

Love this video:


http://www.spikedhumor.com/articl...4/Giant-Bat-Eating-Centipede.html
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

but inverts NEEEEEVER take verts in the wild! only sickos would even think of that!



heh, sorry.  i get whined at for feeding F/T mice to breeding projects sometimes


this, in part, is what made me revise my estimate of what the antenna spread bouncing movement in centipedes means. i used to think it was akin to a threat/warning display... now i think it is a way of gathering more data with their sensors
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 8:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cacoseraph wrote:
but inverts NEEEEEVER take verts in the wild! only sickos would even think of that!


and my reply to people who say that is something on the lines of, "how the hell do you know for sure??? are you god?? did you invent the invert?? you specifically designed it to, "not eat vertibrates??""

ive seen inverts eat verts in the wild myself. surely you dont believe that rubbish do ya caco??? Smile

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh, not at all. though i haven't personally seen itin the wild (yet) i have read many many accounts of it.

one thing i do agree with though is that it is much more morally defensible to feed F/T than live to everything possible.  or to prekill, humanely. my prefered method (when i get get an axman) is cervical disconnect combined with simultaneous brain scramble by virtue of bluntforce trauma.  at most, a quarter second of pain is possible with a clean blow
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i agree with you completely there. i tend to thump live prey when needed.



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