The caterpillar is very hungry... what will happen when there is nothing left to eat?
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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.
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Caterpillars really are insatiable! They are often described as "eating machines". They eat flowers, grass, honeycomb, twigs and bark, moss and lichen.
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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