00:00:02squishy bothersome things cowering in
00:00:05your garden meet the South American
00:00:08centipede about a foot long in your face
00:00:10and full of surprises first surprise
00:00:14this centipede is still growing so it’s
00:00:17got to shed so a new exoskeleton can
00:00:19grow on its body like a debutante
00:00:22wriggling out of a too-tight evening
00:00:24gown the centipede has to squirm slink
00:00:27twitch rye then moves out of its
00:00:30confinement finally finally it gets out
00:00:34of its old body armor now it has to
00:00:37plump up fast before its epidermis
00:00:40secretes chitin too soon
00:00:42if the chitin hardens into a shell why
00:00:44the centipede is still on the smallish
00:00:46side the shedding would have been
00:00:48pointless hey what could be more
00:00:50convenient snacking than that handy old
00:00:53exoskeleton what do you call this I mean
00:00:55it’s not cannibalism because that’s
00:00:57eating another of your own species I
00:00:59guess you could call this in Auto
00:01:01grazing
00:01:02the centipede has a new skin and a new
00:01:05attitude predator it’s hungry and eating
00:01:10its old skin just isn’t good enough it’s
00:01:13after a baby green iguana the iguana is
00:01:17fast
00:01:18twitchy highly mobile and impulsive the
00:01:21centipede is slower persistent hungry
00:01:24and strategic the centipede advances on
00:01:28the iguana
00:01:28the Iguana retreats the iguana scoots
00:01:32the centipede crawls scoot crawl scoot
00:01:38crawl whoopsie-daisy somehow after all
00:01:43that scooting the iguana finds itself at
00:01:46the end of a branch how that happened No
00:01:50the centipede moves in for the moment of
00:01:53truth the iguana considers its options
00:01:56and in a defensive response leaps into
00:02:00the safety of the water below
00:02:05okay so the centipede wasn’t satisfied
00:02:08eating its own skin and then it failed
00:02:11to NAV a more substantial meal no one
00:02:16these baby rats are safe because mom is
00:02:20guarding the nest but mom has to go
00:02:23grocery shopping
00:02:24leaving the babies completely helpless
00:02:28speaking of grocery shopping the
00:02:32centipede relies on ground vibrations
00:02:34and antenna touch to locate a feast like
00:02:37this one
00:02:38mom senses danger and races to the
00:02:41rescue the centipede is chased off but
00:02:44not before mom discovers one of her
00:02:46babies dead killed by the centipede now
00:02:52wait a minute
00:02:53we don’t want you to think that
00:02:54centipedes are Venom’s spewing hundred
00:02:57legged baby killers I mean the females
00:03:00can be devoted moms I dare any predator
00:03:04to try and get in these eggs this mom is
00:03:08literally a basket case protecting her
00:03:11eggs until they hatch and a new
00:03:14generation of fierce multi limbed
00:03:16warriors are unleashed on the jungle
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