MadSci Network: Zoology |
No, poor little guy will NOT grow back his leg. It is a very interesting strategy for a grasshopper to release a leg easily to a predator. It loses a leg but saves it's life by leaving something behind to distract the predator. Sort of the way a lizard lets go part of it tail and leaves it behind wriggling. But lizards live much longer than grasshoppers, so they have time to grow back their tail. Grasshoppers are not so lucky.
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