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Photo stories Strange but true The snail and the moth
Photo stories Strange but true The snail and the moth
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By Francesco Tomasinelli This snail live in some european caves. But here, in the dark, there is no vegetation to eat. So evolution transformed this mollusc in a dedicated carnivorous. The Oxychilus snails eat dead animals, but can actually hunt. One of the most surprising preys, depicted in this sequence, are moths ibernating in caves. The snail slowly climb on the insect and kill it with the radula, a penetrating tongue, before the moth can react and fly away. This is one of the most surprising behaviour of caves animals, disclosed few years ago.
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16-12-2011 Two new short stories in "Strange but true" with tiger beetles and devil flower mantis. Updated Quirimbas Islands reportage 30-4-2011 New scientific exhibition Predatori del microcosmo at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, until 27-6-2011
03-02-2011 New scientific exhibition Copioni e copiati for Arte e Scienza in Piazza 2011, in Bologna, until 13-02-2011. 08-1-2011 New photo gallery on Iran and persian architecture 05-12-2010 New scientific exhibition Predatori del microcosmo at Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento, until 13-2-2011 29-11-2010 New gallery Professione naturalista, on people working in natural sciences 28-10-2010 New scientific exhibition Copioni e copiati, for Festival della Scienza 2010, at Castello d'Albertis, Genova, until 5-12-2010
13-09-2010 New gallery on Valley of Butterflies, Rhodes, Greece |
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