Mongoose Throwing and Smashing Millipedes
- 3 February 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 155 (3762), 577-579
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3762.577
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.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit: