NYC Shaolin a traditional Shaolin Kung Fu school, teaching Tai Chi and Kung Fu using the Five Animal Forms, focusing on Tiger, Crane, Dragon, and Southern Jook Lum Praying Mantis.
He yearns to returns the greetings of the large and small insects he meets, such as a locust, a praying mantis, a spittlebug, a luna moth, and some mosquitoes.
Filling a niche separate from its green cousins, Deroplatys trigonodera, a leaf-litter mantid, has evolved the look of a leaf decomposing on the tropical forest floor.
Animals like this praying mantis are continually evolving to try and outwit those pests, which, in turn, are continually evolving to try and outwit the mantis.