The biggest centipede on the planet

giant centipede reaches a length of 26 cm, it is found on the islands of Jamaica and Trinidad, to the north and west of South America. There are cases of attacks skolopendry giant birds, lizards, mice and frogs. Especially poisonous are female. Mistakenly believe that a giant bite is fatal for skolopendry cheloveka.

The body consists of 21-23 segments of copper-red or brown, each with a pair of legs bright yellow. One pair of feet turned in her maxilliped with claws, connected to poison glands. A pair of back - dragging in special big feet that help the animal clinging lumps of soil excavation hodah.

Sacrifice centipede missing front legs, plunges into it maxilliped poisonous and starts to chew, sending pieces of food into a wide throat, where they are digested by enzymes. Eat slowly and centipede is quite long, making small breaks. Often many times to clean, flowing turns his legs, and then antennae is one, then the other side through the nogochelyusti.

Poison skolopendr win acetylcholine, serotonin, lecithin, histamine, thermolysin hyaluronidase. It is well preserved in the cold, but is rapidly destroyed by heating, under the influence of ether, ethyl alcohol, strong alkalis. In humans, their bites cause local swelling and pain usually lasts 1-2 hours. If a large centipede, these phenomena can be kept for several days, possibly fever, fever, weakness.

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