{"id":14313,"date":"2024-06-02T23:38:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T22:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=14313"},"modified":"2024-06-02T23:38:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T22:38:25","slug":"what-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=14313","title":{"rendered":"What Am I ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\uf0a8 I breathe through my skin and have 5 pairs of simple hearts<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 I am eaten by the Makiritare people of Venezuela, the Maori of New Zealand, the aborigines of Australia and Papua New Guineans<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 Our ancestors were on the planet around 209 million years ago<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 I am a keystone species; that means that without us humans would struggle to survive<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 Sophie Smith, aged 10, charmed 567 of us in half an hour – a World Record<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 I can live for 10 years or more<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 I have been an ingredient in medicines for centuries<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 Charles Darwin wrote a book about us which sold as many copies as The Origin of Species<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 Our babies can move a weight 500 times heavier than their bodies. This is equivalent to a human pushing a Humpback Whale to one side<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 Mucus from our bodies is often added to anti-wrinkle and skin regeneration cream<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 We are so sensitive to sunlight that just an hour of daylight can paralyse us<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 We are neither male nor female but both<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 We can be as short as 1cm or as long as 3 metres<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 Seeds that we have eaten and passed through our bodies are more likely to germinate<\/p>\n

\uf0a8 The collective noun for us is a ‘clew’ from an Old English word meaning a ball of string<\/p>\n

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And for more fascinating insights read ‘The Book of the Earthworm’ by Sally Coulthard.<\/p>\n

The image from Gower is Worms Head<\/p>\n

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