I suppose they haven't really evolved for scaring humans. I could certainly picture someone freaking out if the caterpillar did it, and they weren't expecting it though. Actually, I would probably drop the thing pretty quickly if it did it to me, because not ever having heard of this behaviour before, I would have thought it was the prelude to getting sprayed with noxious fluid.
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I suppose they haven't really evolved for scaring humans. I could certainly picture someone freaking out if the caterpillar did it, and they weren't expecting it though. Actually, I would probably drop the thing pretty quickly if it did it to me, because not ever having heard of this behaviour before, I would have thought it was the prelude to getting sprayed with noxious fluid.
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