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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Various ant species do a similar thing where their soldiers have really big, flat heads and when their nest gets attacked, the soldiers stick their head into the entrance way, so the attackers can’t come inside.

  Apparently, this kind of behaviour is referred to as phragmosis.

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  • Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    They also drop a cool shield in Elden Ring.

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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Also Cork Lid Trapdoor Spiders

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• abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Thank you America for growing your population so large. When climate change gets so bad that the dykes pop, we can just grab the nearest American to plug the hole and save humanity.

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  • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    work for volcanic eruption too

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    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      We’ve been training with Taco Bell Diablo sauce for such an occasion.

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  • Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I knew I was good for something

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  • shasta@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Hey, dykes are people too. I have it on good authority that many of them like biking.

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    • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah, motorbiking ;)

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• DickFiasco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  If I’m ever reincarnated as a mole rat, I know I have guaranteed employment.

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• sk@forums.utsukta.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  This would be a very interesting paper to read! any citations?

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Not OP, I couldn’t find a paper. Just this site that makes the same claim almost word for word, and cites a youtube video of a lecture at Stanford. I didn’t watch the video, but this seems best described as a “plausible” explanation rather than a proven fact.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      www.science.org/…/mole-rat-caste-lives-good-life

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    • sorter_plainview@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Shit! That video is Robert Sapolsky’s lecture. I have something like an “intellectual” crush on him. He has done pioneering works in behavioural science, and at the intersection of human physiology and psychology. One of his books “Why Zebra’s Don’t Get Ulcers” is entirely on the various effects of psychological stress on the human body.

      He observed the same group of baboons for 25 years to understand their behaviour. Each year he used to spend 4 months with this group and observe them for more than 8 hours a day. “A Primate’s Memoir” is another book on this. Recently he wrote “Behave”, on the deterministic nature of human behaviour, tracing “aggression” back to the evolutionary reasons.

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    • sk@forums.utsukta.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      more like layman meme than science meme :P

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    story.fund/post/102912780522/naked-mole-rats Link to lecture at the bottom.

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• nulluser@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I’ll believe it when Ze Frank does a True Facts video on it.

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• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  The more I read about them, the more I’m fascinated with how alien they seem to be to me. It’s either them or crabs as the ultimate form that everything would come to eventually. Maybe even molecrabs we are yet to discover.

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  • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Squid are pretty awesome too. More alien than crabs IMO as well.

    Crabs are kinda like big tasty water-spiders.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I think octopus are the most awesome animals on the planet, beating crows for the title.

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    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Do you have some links or recs to drop for me and others about squids? That’d be sweet.

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• DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  TIL, thx

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Is this why grandma wants to stuff me with food every time I visit her?

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  • moody@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    She knows that if anyone wants to get to her, they have to go through you, and the bigger you are, the harder it is.

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• KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  So that’s what butt plugs are

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  • MeatPilot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Also both are probably covered in mud when you pull them out.

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    • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Holy molé

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• olutukko@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  apparently this is a myth. thats too bad

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• SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  #lifegoals ✌️🖖

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• Poogona@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Naked mole rats are considered an example of a truly “eusocial” mammal analogue to ants. More evidence for the idea that social behavior/societal grouping, once established in a species, characterizes it more potently than just about anything else in its genetic history. Chimps might be our closest genetic relatives, but the way we live and think is probably much more similar to these guys.

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• MrGerrit@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  My spirit animal.

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• tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Thank your plug

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I thought it was going to say in the rainy season they eat them.

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• Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  They’re turning into rats

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• ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  🎵 I see you baby… 🎵

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  • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    🎵 I like big butts and I cannot lie 🎵

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• olutukko@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  so this is why so many american are overweight and lot of politicians are climate change deniers…

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• D61@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  That Feeling When: You talk about butt plugs to a naked mole rat and it looks at you in total confusion.

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