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20 March 2016
Rove beetle
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A gorgeous shiny creature, brave of you to coax, since he obviously is not to be messed with.
Zhoen, if small invertebrates have nightmares, this beetle is the stuff of them.
pete,
Certain sure.
It looks so ill-proportioned: those thin legs, all different lengths, look as if they would never keep that long body off the ground. And yet, for all that, it does have a dark beauty to it, doesn't it?
Lisa, I see what you mean, but small things don't need big legs. It's all to do with the way an animal's weight increases much faster than the cross-section of its legs. If you could somehow enlarge this beetle to the size of an elephant, its legs would be far too thin to support its enormous weight — which would be quite a relief, because I wouldn't want to be chased by an elephant-sized rove beetle ;-)
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