Caterpillar extends four appendages when people shout at it

Someone is going to hook up this noise-sensitive Peruvian caterpillar to an Arduino.

We found a crazy tentacled caterpillar near the Tambopata Research Center in the Peruvian Amazon. This bizarre organism is the the genus Nematocampa – check it out and see more amazing wildlife at http://www.perunature.com. Video by Aaron Pomerantz, thanks to contributing footage by Steven Senisi of EdTechLens

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