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Millipede's Stampede

just moving about on its two rows of countless legs looks to me a most complex and complicated concern of the millipede; I wonder how its motor nerves ensure synchronization of milli-leg motion so that not a single leg may ever accidentally impede the smooth movement of the rest of its legs, avoiding errors that might cause either limb entanglements or a weird stampede, a blunder the millipede would rather keep to itself and guard against being gossiped about by creepers like cousin centipede !

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