Abstract
The study of extra-oral digestion is of general interest because it helps explain the success of over 80% of the predaceous families of the phylum Arthropoda (Cohen 1995), the phylum whose members comprise over three-quarters of the known animal species (Wilson 1992). Extra-oral digestion especially is interesting because it involves the integration of several levels of biological organization—biochemical, physiological, morphological, and behavioral adaptations—all within an ecological and evolutionary context. It also is fascinating because it is so alien to our way of eating that it challenges our world-view about what most of us feel is a mundane process.
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