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Tasting hairs on the legs of a roach can not only help it determine a food source, but help it avoid pesticides as well. Glycocides -- poison baits mixed with glucose -- were traditionally used to dose the sweet-loving cockroach with lethal toxins.
No other animal is known to employ its tail this way, and the study's authors speculate that use of the tail as a leg evolved to make the hopâa classic and unique kangaroo maneuverâmore efficient.t's amazing what these kangaroos are doing.. Red kangaroos hop away from a watering hole in Australia's Sturt National Park. Red kangaroos hop away from a watering hole in Australia's Sturt National Park.