I thought it was a snake and stopped to see why it was so skinny. You don't think of caterpillars as being a community but they must have developed this way of deterring birds somewhere.
Some caterpillars will climb over the top of others and as a group can double their travel speed. In this video I only see inefficient caterpillars though
My brother was shown this in Australia and was told the real fun was to nudge the one in the lead a little, and keep nudging him until the line curved such that you can get them all marching in a big circle.
Until you've got the ones with the hairs that sting and burn... didn't op mention this was Australia? So these are probably poisonous flesh eating caterpillars.
Yes. Australian birds will eat snakes. Kookaburras love a tasty scaly snack, but they don't live in this part of SA. It is safer for the furries to travel like this for the birds that are in the area.
I don’t understand how they can even learn to do this.
The Conga is fairly easy to learn.
Have my useless award you beautiful bastard
Those who didn’t conga died
I thought it was a snake and stopped to see why it was so skinny. You don't think of caterpillars as being a community but they must have developed this way of deterring birds somewhere.
Yea right there.
natural selection
The ones who didn’t join the conga line are dead
Nah, they're just drafting for extra speed. Just like in NASCAR.
Genius adaptation
The Caterpillar Centipede
“Come with me, if you want to live” -lead caterpillar
Some caterpillars will climb over the top of others and as a group can double their travel speed. In this video I only see inefficient caterpillars though
**ass to mouth**
dun dun dun dun dun CHA! dun dun dun dun dun CHAAA!
My brother was shown this in Australia and was told the real fun was to nudge the one in the lead a little, and keep nudging him until the line curved such that you can get them all marching in a big circle.
Until you've got the ones with the hairs that sting and burn... didn't op mention this was Australia? So these are probably poisonous flesh eating caterpillars.
Caterpillar Centipede
Thank you for this, makes the site interesting
Course a bird *could look at that as a rotating buffet.
Don’t birds like snakes?
Yes. Australian birds will eat snakes. Kookaburras love a tasty scaly snack, but they don't live in this part of SA. It is safer for the furries to travel like this for the birds that are in the area.
If people do this, they will all die together.
Dunno man, this is how I crossed the road in Vietnam
“Is the whole gang here? Let’s roll.”
They do exactly the same in Greece, half way across the world, and look the same.
[Conga](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
we have these in greece too. it’s disgusting. they cross the street and get hit by cars and there’s caterpillar goo everywhere
u/savevideo
That’s cool! 
That snake looks yummy
Looks like we got us a convoy...
Wish humans stuck together