Scorpions Are Predators With a Sensitive Side, Deep Look

Look past their grasping claws and lightningfast stingers, and you ll see scorpions have a delicate pair of comblike organs on their belly called pectines. These sensory body parts help them navigate, and figure out who s a menace, a meal or a mate. Please join our community on Patreon SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look DEEP LOOK is an ultraHD (4K) short video series created by KQED San Francisco and presented by PBS Digital Studios. See the unseen at the very edge of our visible world. Explore big scientific mysteries by going incredibly small. Scorpions are arachnids with a monstrous reputation, but wait until you get to know their sensitive side. On their bellysides, scorpions sport unique, brushlike organs called pectines, that endow them with extraordinary sensing abilities. These sensors help the animals with a variety of behaviors: finding mates; hunting prey; identifying other scorpions or predators; and they even help them navigate. Each