Novel Mode of Soft-Bodied Motion
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Channel: Cell Press · 2010 · Science & Technology
Most of us have surely seen the slow and gravity-defying crawl of a caterpillar, with that wave of motion that passes over their elongated and flexible bodies. But it turns out that inside those crawlers, there's a completely different motion going on: as described in this video abstract, Simon et al. have found that the caterpillars' rather primitive guts slide forward before anything else moves at all. http://WWW.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(10)00807-9
