So that’s three things I have in common with frogs
Dedication
Submitted 4 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What are the other 2? You breathe through your skin and have an extendable tongue?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I eat bugs and part of Jurassic Park was based on me. (I’m fat and put shaving cream on peoples food)
argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I like to collect things like this and use on FB when someone comes with that “nature is beautiful” crap.
smeg@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
EVEN IN DEATH I STILL SERVE
liss_up@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
This is horrifying, thanks.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Big deal, human can do that too, only that we choose not to.
Hupf@feddit.de 4 weeks ago
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Makes you wonder what they are up to now.
nixcamic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Reverse tenescawri.
Bebo@literature.cafe 4 weeks ago
Kind of had the same thought!
maculata@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Even frogs need a hobby.
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Welp, she’s definitely croaked. Oh well, no reason I can’t still give her the ol proboscidea…
trolske@feddit.de 4 weeks ago
Damn, I’m getting flasbacks from that. I had to make a presentation whether functional necrophilia in animals is adaptive during my master studies. I had to read so many papers discussing the details. Conclusion: not enough evidence to conclude it’s adaptive
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Christ, well… thanks for your work.
What does not being adaptive mean in this case?
trolske@feddit.de 4 weeks ago
Adaptive here means whether necrophilia occurs in order to still produce offspring, i.e. it’s ‘conscious’ (I use that term veeeery loosely here) or if it occurs just because the animals don’t recognize that the partner is dead.
I remember a paper about a frog species (not sure if it was the one from the meme) where the mails participated in necrophilia, but they basically tried to squeeze eggs out of anything they grabbed. Living female, dead female, stone, sponge. All the same.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
2000: Fuck these penguins and their image!
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Any information about “unnatural” acts in nature was suppressed until the 1990s or so. Of course, by then it wasn’t so bad anymore, but still. Conservatives don’t fuck around when they cancel.
I think Biological Exuberance by Bruce Bagemihl had a big role in calling this out and paving the way for Kees Moeliker. I guess that is how you got saddled with the presentation, yes?
For those who don’t know, Moeliker gave a really good TED talk. Worth watching. It’s not about suppressing uncomfortable information, though.
Next Wednesday, June 5th, is Dead Duck Day.