COOL DETAILS ABOUT SCORPIONS
Added on: 12th Jun 2016
DESPITE HAVING 6 TO 12 EYES, SCORPIONS HAVE
POOR VISION. INSTEAD, THEY LOCATE THEIR PREY
THROUGH SCENT AND GROUND VIBRATIONS
THE BELIEF THAT SCORPIONS COMMIT SUICIDE
BY STINGING THEMSELVES TO DEATH WHEN
SURROUNDED BY FIRE IS A MYTH. THEY ARE NOT
KNOWN TO HAVE SUCH SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR
AND IF EVEN THEY HAD, THEIR VENOM HAS
NO EFFECT ON THEMSELVES
SCORPIONS ARE KNOWN TO GLOW WHEN EXPOSED
TO CERTAIN WAVELENGTHS OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT.
SCIENTISTS ARE NOT SURE OF THE PURPOSE FOR
THIS FLUORESCENCE BUT IT MIGHT HELP THE SCORPIONS
DETECT LIGHT
SCORPION BABIES ARE CALLED SCORPLINGS.
THEY RIDE ON THEIR MOTHER´S BACK UNTIL
THEIR FIRST MOULT
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FASCINATED WITH SCORPIONS
FOR MILLENNIA. THE ARACHNIDS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT
ROLE IN SOME OLD CIVILIZATIONS´ MYTHOLOGIES AND
A ZODIAC SIGN WAS NAMED AFTER THEM
SCORPIONS CAN INGEST FOOD ONLY IN A LIQUID FORM;
THEY HAVE EXTERNAL DIGESTION. THE DIGESTIVE
JUICES FROM THE GUT ARE EGESTED ONTO THE
FOOD AND THE DIGESTED FOOD IS THEN SUCKED
IN LIQUID FORM
FEMALES ARE USUALLY LARGER THAN MALES.
OCCASIONALLY, THE FEMALE EVEN KILLS
AND EATS THE MALE AFTER MATING
AS NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, SCORPIONS USUALLY ONLY
COME OUT AT NIGHT. IN FACT, SOME SPECIES SPEND UP
TO 97% OF THEIR LIVES IN THEIR BURROWS
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