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Talking Caterpillars:
The Amazing Eversible Tentacular Organs


The tentacular organs are a pair of eversible tubercules that are normally pulled inside the body of the caterpillar. The caterpillar can "inflate" them at will, caused the structure to be pushed out like a rubber glove being turned inside out.

Looping cartoon of tentacular organs on a larva being extruded and then pulled back in Looping cartoon of a tentacular organ being extruded and then pulled back in
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