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Mongoose Throwing and Smashing Millipedes

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 03 Feb 1967 English Publisher:American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Journal:Science, volume 155, pages 577-579 (issn: 0036-8075, eissn: 1095-9203, Copyright policy )
Authors: T, Eisner; J A, Davis;

doi: 10.1126/science.155.3762.577

pmid: 17737407

Mongoose Throwing and Smashing Millipedes

Abstract

African millipedes of the genus Sphaerotherium coil into tight spheres when disturbed. Their tough skeletal armor offers protection against some predators, but not against the African banded mongoose Mungos mungo , which smashes them by hurling them against rock.

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