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Animals that roll
The only one I can think of besides my 7 year old kid is the pill bug (a.k.a. isopod, sow bug, rolly-polley) and only for defense not transportation.
What other animals roll themselves? Seems an efficient method of moving down hill.
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2006-05-07, 08:49 PM
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Hoop-snakes!
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2006-05-07, 09:19 PM
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Armadillo?
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2006-05-07, 09:46 PM
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Hedgehogs, again for protection rather than transport.
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centipedes roll them selfs up.....or is that millapedes...its one of the pedes
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2006-05-07, 10:02 PM
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I'm 70% sure there is a creature that sits in tumbleweeds for transport, I kid you not. Lemme see if I can find it on the net.
<edit> okay, now I'm 10% sure. But I think the tumbleweed is an organism that rolls for transport. That's how it spreads it's seed or something.
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ima aquabat cadet!!(hints the mask)
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ha and dung beatles some times ride there dung as transportation...does that count
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2006-05-08, 01:17 AM
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All I can think of are those cool droids from Star Wars that roll up in a ball and then unfold and start shooting those big laser cannons. But I guess those aren't animals.
A tortoise will roll if it slips down a hill! |
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2006-05-08, 01:20 AM
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Don't hedgehogs roll up? Or maybe thats just in cartoons....
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2006-05-08, 01:23 AM
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animals that roll
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2006-05-08, 06:46 AM
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In the Namib Desert of Africa lives the White Lady Spider, which can tuck its legs partway up and cartwheel down the slope of a sand dune. I first learned about this creature from a beautiful National Geographic documentary called The Living Sands of Namib, which aired on PBS way back in the late 70's. I devoured this kind of programming as a kid, and saw this show two or three times when it was rerun. The rolling spider sounds like one of those hoop-snake folk legends, but I remember the scene vividly because it was so dang freakin' cool.
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