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... kind suitable for lipstick ads but nonetheless instructive . Proboscis extension has been seen thousands of times by thousands of people but few have been either struck by the sanitary aspects of the act or ingenious enough to figure ...
... kind suitable for lipstick ads but nonetheless instructive . Proboscis extension has been seen thousands of times by thousands of people but few have been either struck by the sanitary aspects of the act or ingenious enough to figure ...
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... kind of taste organs - hairs . The fly is a marvelously hirsute beast . One usually thinks of hair as something to be combed , brushed , and eternally cut or to be removed from animals and turned into coats . In short , one tends to ...
... kind of taste organs - hairs . The fly is a marvelously hirsute beast . One usually thinks of hair as something to be combed , brushed , and eternally cut or to be removed from animals and turned into coats . In short , one tends to ...
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... kind of message to the brain regardless of the kind of stimulus it receives . Thus , a punch in the eye sends the same message as a flash of light . m elielauto The brain interprets all messages from the nerve 31.
... kind of message to the brain regardless of the kind of stimulus it receives . Thus , a punch in the eye sends the same message as a flash of light . m elielauto The brain interprets all messages from the nerve 31.
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