Josh Clark
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Excellent, Chuck.
You can really see those suction cups working, and it's pretty cool.
Like, what's his name from Reading Rainbow, but on Star Trek The Next Generation?
No, I think it's... Is it more on the front?
It could be on top.
You don't really know what's what.
It's kind of like a Studebaker.
You can't tell which way it's going.
That joke was for our aged listeners who love a good Studebaker joke.
So they also breathe in a really interesting way.
They breathe through spiracles, which are holes in the side of the caterpillar, and they breathe in oxygen.
It goes directly to the trachea and they breathe out carbon dioxide.
And as they move, it's kind of like breathing in and breathing out.
That's like a byproduct of their movement.
And it all goes to that trachea, like I said, and the trachea just diffuses it to the tissue throughout the body.
It's called hemolymph, like most insects' blood, but it's not used to transport oxygen.