ZOOLOGY 260 Study Guide - Venus Flytrap, Cursorial, Fluorescence
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Study guide for the flight of the iguana. Lots of eyes, poisonous fangs, hairy, eight legs. Recommends looking them in the face before deciding whether to kill animals. Ahimsa: belief that you shouldn"t kill any animals at all. Earliest bird, but otherwise looks a lot like dinosaurs. Xylocaris maculipennis males puncture another male, the sperm enters that male"s vas deferens so. Males puncture abdomen of females to inseminate that when it mates, the female is inseminated by the first male"s sperm. Piranhas are the primary source of protein for some people in the amazon. Under threat from deforestation: remove trees, fish disappear; remove fish, some trees disappear. 14 limbs that are used for sensing pressure waves. Stings range from modest discomfort to horrible awful death . Venus flytrap: 3-hair trigger, filters out small meals between rows of spikes. Environmental sex determinism (esd) - sometimes it"s advantageous to be male and sometimes advantageous to be female.
