Tiny giant.

This is a geophilomorph centipede, sometimes called a soil centipede. Usually seen only by weirdos like me who flip over rocks and logs looking for such things, I found this one on the floor of the zoo hospital. These eyeless predators move through the soil like earthworms, and handling this one it even felt more like a worm than an arthropod. All the ones I've seen previously were tiny--a centimeter or two long, even with their many legs (up to 191 pairs--always an odd number).


This one was nearly 5 cm long.

3:00 snapshot #1692: Wednesday

Making the complicated diets for the new mystery animals.