Inside the enigmatic minds of animals | MIT Technology Review
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A trio of books argue that we should spend more time understanding the creatures around us.
Inside the enigmatic minds of animals | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content The emerald jewel wasp’s unusual arrival into the world—bursting from the body of a zombified cockroach it has eaten from the inside—ranks among nature’s most gruesome miracles. To give her larvae the best start in life, the mother wasp, an inch-long parasite clad in oil-slick iridescent armor, attacks her prey, spearing it once with her two-millimeter stinger and injecting sedative chemicals into the roach’s thorax. She stabs a second time, into her victim’s head, carving through muscle and digestive tubes to inject
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