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Originally Posted by montsnmags
I know this is difficult, after last time (Well, how was I to know you wouldn't like a large box of live spiders delivered to your door by InterArachnid?), but...trust me. If you like scarabs, you will be fine with "Giant Burrowing Cockroach", as the "cockroach" part gives the wrong impression (a bit like calling a Sugarglider" a "Flying Tree Rat"). They are the weightiest cockroach, and look more like a "beetle" than a "cockroach". They're about as long as across the palm of your hand, and heavy, and they only eat dead vegetable matter (mostly dried and rotting gum leaves I believe). Sort of like insectile cows.
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i'm pretty sure that if it's called a cockroach, the answer is a resounding no, all the more so if they're the size of the palm of your hand (even if they were only the size of the palm of *my* hand, in fact), and regardless of what they eat.
oh, and i have no idea what a "sugarglider" is but if you mean flying squirrel, then you should really be ashamed of yourself for sullying the good name of squirrels by associating them with cockroaches.
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
You're missing out on some beautiful animals.
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crustaceans : alive, and in their natural habitat, they don't bother me so much. i like looking at crabs. sometimes. (oh, i know you don't speak fluent french (although for someone who claims that you seem to do all right, with that fish in your ear) but i can't think of crabs without thinking of this brilliant short animation :
la Révolution des crabes you should watch it just for the images, in fact).
EDIT : the sound seems to be mysteriously missing, in the first link... surprising, since it's the official site... here's another version, if it doesn't work for you either :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20...rabes_creation
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
(Speaking of Dune) how do you feel about sandworms (that is, beach worms). I got a couple of pictures on the weekend of the heads of a couple poking out of the sand between waves, and they have some lovely coloured "eyes".
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please tell me you're joking. a shiver ran down my spine just reading that sentence.