Watch a slug's self-decapitated head crawl around as it grows an entire new body

[pesco]

Originally published at: Watch a slug's self-decapitated head crawl around as it grows an entire new body | Boing Boing

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[Ratel]

Leonard Betts

[Shuck]

“Welp, that body’s a loss, time to grow a new one!” is a sentiment I can increasingly appreciate as I get older.

[Akimbo_NOT]

Cheaper than liposuction.

[p96]

Okay, we’ll just file this away as an antidote for sweet dreams tonight.

[snigs]

I suppose it’d have to get itself to star bases to regenerate the lost parts. !

[tenbrook]

Don’t try this at home.

[Brainspore]

a slug’s self-decapitated head

[Pedant Alert]

A head cannot be decapitated. A body can be decapitated by having its head removed, or a head can be disembodied by having its body removed.

[/Pedant Alert]

[Tamsin_Bailey]

I’m still not watching.

[Otherbrother]

[robertmckenna]

Nope. This is up there eith those horrible republican videos in the nope stakes.

I’d sooner watch Ben Carson read out his own poetry. Or the orange turd. Well maybe I’d sooner watch a slug head wandering around than that.

[Scientist]

So leg autotomy (self removal) is common in arthropods. They have a special sensory-motor circuit for cutting off a leg as a survival mechanism in case a predator grabs them by the leg. This is the first I’ve ever heard of whole body autotomy, though. Very cool.

[ChristopherD]

Well, guess that renders this image unusable for the rest of time.

[Melizmatic]

Cool in concept; hard pass on actually watching the process as it happens.

[NickyG]

I wish I could do this. What a gag at parties!

[MrShiv]

This reminds me of an ex…