The Hungry Caterpillar

The caterpillar is very hungry... what will happen when there is nothing left?

The Hungry Caterpillar was produced by Squideo from an idea and a script by Anna Ichino, a philosopher at the University of Milan who works in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences.

If you cannot access YouTube, you can watch the video here.

A girl is taking pictures of a butterfly while her younger sibling is stretching in the garden

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Nature facts

Caterpillars really are insatiable! They are often described as "eating machines". They eat flowers, grass, honeycomb, twigs and bark, moss and lichen.
Caterpillar makes an appearance in our video, The Ant and the Grasshopper. But you need to look carefully!

Inspiration

The inspiration for the video is the story by Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. In Carle's classic book, we are introduced to the proverbial hunger of a caterpillar. He turns into a beautiful butterfly in the end.

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