SOURCE: A Hunger in the Soul by Mike Resnick (1998)

DESCRIPTION: "...That's why they're called Sillyworms...Shoot them with a laser or a bullet, or kill them with toxic gas, they act like any other dead animal--but kill them with an ultrasonic weapon and its sets up a sympathetic vibration deep within them that causes the corpses to giggle maniacally for months, sometimes years..." (A Hunger in the Soul by Mike Resnick (1998)

NOTES: The Sillyworms giggle maniacally if killed with ultrasonics. The museum has several specimens that have not stopped yet at the beginning of the novel.

HISTORY: Resnick starts A Hunger in the Soul with the Sillyworms. It is just the first of many strange Barnesian creatures to be featured in the book.

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