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March 26, 2013 - Donald Trump's Toupee?
The larval form of a flannel moth, also known as a puss caterpillar. (Photo: Phil Torres/ LiveScience).
Deep in the Peruvian Amazon lurk strange creatures and unique animals and sights, including spiders that make large spider-shaped decoys in their webs, unusually hairy caterpillars and atmospheric specters called solar halos.
These amazing finds were spotted by Jeff Cremer, marketing director for Rainforest Expeditions, an ecotourism company that hosts guests in the Peruvian Amazon and organizes trips to the jungle, as well as Phil Torres, a collaborating biologist.
http://news.yahoo.com/5-strange-sigh...191120448.html
SPUCK Wednesday Mar 27 06:44 AM
I think they have one too many 's'es.
infinite monkey Wednesday Mar 27 10:50 AM
omg that IS Trump's hair! Quick, someone 'shop Rosie O'Donnel in, giving that hair a smackdown!
glatt Wednesday Mar 27 11:07 AM
at the linked article I saw this:
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1. Spider-shaped decoys As if spiders weren't frightening enough (to many, anyway), here's a spider that makes designs in its webs that look like spiders, but are much larger than the web-builders themselves. The animal is almost certainly a new species, said Torres, in a release from Rainforest Expeditions. It's thought that the spider-shaped design is a defense mechanism that is meant to distract or confuse predators, wrote Torres, who originally spotted the spiders. "Because of the spider's behavior and appearance, I thought that it might be a new species," Torres said in the statement. "After contacting spider experts, we think it is likely in the genusCyclosa, which is known for piling debris in its web for defense against predators but has never been recorded to do it in such a defined pattern as this particular discovery." |
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