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The Wild Pest
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Giraffe Weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa)
Mathematical
77Six Legs
Bug Bite · From the file on Giraffe Weevil

Mathematician Tomonori Endo formally analyzed the leaf-rolling algorithm in 2010 as a real-world example of computational origami.

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