MILLIPEDE
A millipede is an arthropod in the class known as Diplopoda. Their characteristic is their large number of body segments and their attached pairs of legs. They eat decaying plant. Some eat fungi or suck plant fluids, and a small minority are predatory.
Most millipedes defend themselves with a variety of chemicals secreted from pores along the body, although the tiny bristle millipedes are covered with tufts of detachable bristles.
The scientific study of millipedes is known as diplopodology, and a scientist who studies them is called a diplopodologist.
Reproduction in most species is carried out by modified male legs called gonopods, which transfer packets of sperm to females.
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