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Sunday, 5 January 2014

The caterpillar that uses tobacco 'smoke' to ward off predators: Creature puffs out foul nicotine odour to put off hungry spiders

A molecular ecologist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, found that nicotine is excreted through tiny respiratory holes on the animal's skin.



from dailymail

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