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New Species Aims for the Eyes?
Photograph courtesy Piotr Naskrecki, Conservation International
Unlike most katydids, which use a combination of camouflage and "startle displays," such as flashing their wings, to avoid being eaten, this new species uses its muscular, spike-covered legs to jab attackers into submission.
"I got jabbed quite a few times," Naskrecki, the invertebrate expert, told National Geographic News, adding that the new species probably evolved this defense mechanism to ward off birds and bats. "It probably aims for the eyes."
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