Some scorpions can hiss by rubbing themselves with ‘sandpaper’
31 May 2018
Club-tailed scorpions in the Americas make a hissing sound, warning potential predators to back off, by rubbing a “comb” against a sheet of sandpaper-like exoskeleton
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