Abby and Norma --- by Erika Hammerschmidt --- Aug 3, 2007

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TEXT OF COMIC:

I wonder why humans are the only animals that wear clothes.

Actually, that's debatable.

One could describe the hermit crab as wearing clothes, because it isn't born with a shell-- it puts on the shells of other animals that have died. But that's a primitive form of clothes-wearing, sort of like a caveman finding a bearskin that's been eaten empty by scavengers and putting it on.

On the other hand, the caddisfly larva could be described as wearing clothing that it actually makes. It constructs a shell out of debris it finds, like a human weaving fibers together to make a coat.

Are there any others? Or are we one of just three deviant species of clothes-wearers on a planetwide nudist colony?

Something like that.