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From: Keith Nagel <NewCandleAdmin at ipdiscover.com>

 ... are you familiar with the bombardier beetle?


I had forgotten about that strange guy, even though Dawkins is one of my favorite writers. His beetle anecdote is typically Brit, no?

"During Charles Darwin's education at the University of Cambridge he became involved in a national craze for the competitive collecting of beetles. On one occasion in 1828
he stripped bark from a dead tree and caught a rare beetle in each
hand, then saw another new species. With the habits of an
egg-collector, he popped the beetle from his right hand into his mouth
and grabbed the other with his free hand. The beetle which he had
placed in his mouth, likely a bombardier beetle, "ejected some
intensely acrid fluid, which burnt [his] tongue," forcing him to spit
it out; he lost the beetle, as well as the third.



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