DID you know that spiders taste with their feet, that a decapitated cockroach can live for two weeks, that a certain type of parrotfish wraps itself in a sort of foul-smelling snot before taking a nap, and that ants play? I didn’t until I read Bats Sing, Mice Giggle. I was also amazed to discover that you can remove the brain of a salamander, grind it up and pop it back in again, and the poor defiled creature will function quite normally.
Some stories stretch credulity. Plants that subsequently recognise people who have damaged them – how would that…
