Chuck Bryant
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They don't have bones, of course, but they do have lots of, they're very muscly.
If you compare them to a human, we have about 629 muscles.
Caterpillars have 4,000 muscles because those muscles, that's the way they're moving.
You know, they move in a little wave from front to back.
Yes, front to back.
How did I mess that up?
Well, it depends on which direction they're going, I guess.
And they move in a couple of ways.
One of two ways is sometimes they're crawling, which means they're moving all of those pro legs and legs at the same time in sequence.
Or they do what sounds like an inchworm does, right?
Yeah, and I never looked close enough at an inchworm to figure out why they move that way.
And I feel like a dummy now because it seems obvious.
They move that way because their middle section doesn't have legs.