I can only hope that someday I get to sit in a rocking chair in a rest home with my fellow spiders.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I can only hope that someday I get to sit in a rocking chair in a rest home with my fellow spiders.
Count the legs!!!!
They’re IMPOSTORS!!!!!!!
You may not live that long….one day, when you walk through a dark alley, you will be confronted by a hostile elephant:
“Do you remember me, Mr. Myers? Kenya. 1978. Whenever you shoot an elephant, make sure you finish the job*!”
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* idea stolen from a Gary Larson cartoon.
richardelguru@1,
Spiders often lose a leg or two (or even three – when I worked with spiders, I remember seeing a five-legged spider making a web) but remain functional (and don’t regrow them AFAIK).
They do regenerate! It’ll come back at the next molt, although it might take a couple of molts to be fully restored.
Thanks PZ@4 – I probably knew that at some point!