Centipede giant - the largest millipede Bashny.Net

Giant centipede came to this planet appear to be straight out of a nightmare. This millipede reaches quarter of a meter in length, and its body consists of 21-23 sections, each of which has a pair of fast dexterous legs 2 and 5 cm tall. Giant centipede lives in South America, Puerto Rico and Jamaica.

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The head is equipped with a centipede strong jaws full of poison - because of this it is able to hunt animals much larger than its size, such as bats. In addition, different centipede irritable and nervous character, helped by the lack of - the animal's eyes can distinguish only light and darkness. This makes the centipede is quite suspicious, and in response to the threat it prefers to attack the victim in injecting poison nerve agent.



Being hungry centipede becomes very aggressive, it is able to develop greater speed in hunting and agility and mobility of its body allows hunting even small birds. Scolopendra eats victim gradually, as her digestive system is built very primitive. For example, once the researchers observed how she dines killed a bat - 3 hours it devoured and digested about 35% of the victim's body.

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And here you can see a giant centipede has treated the poor rodent



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