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Spit and walk

Watch a peripatus disengaging from its spit and using its legs to propel itself forward, surprisingly smoothly. Peripatus are named after their walk – from the Greek word peripatos, meaning to walk about.

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Paddy Ryan, Peripatus – Ecology, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/13264/spit-and-walk (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paddy Ryan, published 1 March 2009.

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waldir desouzajunior
29 January 2023
peripatos in greek language means to walk around,because aristotle when teaching his disciples was accostumed walking and teaching under the porches situated all around the building of his school this in greek:peripatos, so derived: aristotle's peripatetic school...!!!