If cow is red meat, a chicken is white meat, then what meat color would an insect or an arachnid have?
In: Biology
They don’t have meat. Not the same in any way to mammals or birds anyway. For starters, they have an exoskeleton. They don’t have internal bones. Pretty much all of the internals are soft and squidgey goo.
The way spiders move their legs is pretty freaky actually. It’s kind of like hydraulics, they use internal pressure of fluids to extend their legs. The legs are under tension from things like ligaments, which is what makes the legs curl up. Less pressure in the fluid system means the legs curl, while more means they extend.
This is why spiders curl up when they die. There is no more pressure in the system, and the ligaments (or what ever they actually are) take over.
Obviously they can control each one individually. And if they lose one leg, the rest will still work. It will eventually heal if the thing lives long enough. But if they lose too many all at once, they will lose too much fluid, and they lose control of the rest of the legs.
They’re coloured the same as milk. (If you’ve ever seen a larvae, it’s that but inside chitin)
I hate to ask on someone’s else post but then how is it possible that ducks have red meat and pigs have white meat?
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