MadSci Network: Zoology
Query:

Re: Can A grasshopper grow back limbs?

Date: Sat Sep 9 13:30:45 2006
Posted By: Elsa Cade, Science Education Instructor/entomologist
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 1157681506.Zo
Message:

No, poor little guy will NOT grow back his leg.  It is a very interesting 
strategy for a grasshopper to 
release a leg easily to a predator.  It loses a leg but saves it's life by 
leaving something behind to 
distract the predator.  Sort of the way a lizard lets go part of it tail and 
leaves it behind wriggling.  
But lizards live much longer than grasshoppers, so they have time to grow back 
their tail.  
Grasshoppers are not so lucky.  



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