Australian onychophorans (Blaxter & Sunnucks 2011 Curr Biol)The guide itself is quite interesting, recommend reading it if you have time. To entice you, they talk about the diversity of breeding behaviours found in onychophorans:
"Some are fully live-bearing (viviparous), with well-developed placenta-like, extra-embryonic structures that attach to the mother's uterine wall and nourishes growing embryos until the birth of sequences of self-reliant, mini velvet worms."Onychophorans are way cooler than arthropods ;p
And they can be social with dominant/submissive behaviours, which I talked about in an earlier post (which happens to be one of my most visited, probably because it's not about protists =( ).
And with that, there may or may not be a surprise while I'm away, so stay tuned. In any case, I should engage in some form of proper blogging sometime after the 20th... (finals, shoot me)
I had a lecturer once who loved velvet worms, and on the last day of lectures he brought some in on a petri dish.
ReplyDeleteThey were so pretty. Especially the little poddy feet :D