Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1920 — Regrowing Legs. [ARTICLE]

Regrowing Legs.

A starfish, seized by one of Its anna, surrenders this to the captor and escapes wi.th the other fonr, regrowing the missing part at its infinite leisure. A starfish may jerk off each of its five arms seized in succession; It may cast off an injured or parasitised arm; in rare, cases there is multiplication by division. Sea cucumbers discharge their viscera tn the spasms of capture and may thus escape from an astonished foe. The replacement of the food canal is sometimes accomplished in ten days though* it may take as many weeks. • . ■ A. 1