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Natural born killers

Natural born killers

At the Tropical Insect Sanctuary, you can get up close and personal with some cute cannibals and other captivating creatures

‘That’s a peacock mantis,” said Wissarut Sukhaket as he saw me observing a dull-looking little fellow in a nursery box at the Tropical Insect Sanctuary in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Pak Chong district. “Want to know why it got such a name?”

Without waiting for my reply, Wissarut, a research experimental assistant at the facility, carefully brought the mantis out of the container and placed it in his palm. The predatory insect stood upright raising its large,…

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