While we were doing the caterpillar-tickling experiment this week, the question of how to tickle the caterpillars had to be dealt with early on. I ruled out using our fingers on grounds of caterpillars being too mushy. That of course led to questions about why caterpillars are so mushy.
If you’re just joining us, yesterday my five-year-old ask me if caterpillars were ticklish. Today is the day we find out.
When my five-year-old asked her father, who was a Harvard researcher at the time, if caterpillars were ticklish, he laughed for about 5 minutes. What does being ticklish mean for a caterpillar anyway? Can caterpillars laugh? And if they do, how can we hear them? It’s the perfect setup for a Caterpickles experiment.
CATERPICKLES 