The wild thing is: These are hundreds of mutations of several generations that happened randomly until it looked like this.
Biomimicry
Submitted 9 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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NessD@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 hour ago
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 4 hours ago
“You get free food for life but you gotta wear this giant yellow foam cowboy hat and never take it off. Even to shower”
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
So you’re a termite?
“…uhhh totally.”
What do we like to eat?
“Stuff and wood and junk.”
Okay good enough.MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al 7 hours ago
This is some Pokemon shit.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 hours ago
Pokemon is really just some real animal kingdom shit.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
And not even like…“but cuter!”. Japan has some insanely cute critters.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
I think we have one of those in the Office of President of the United States of America
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 7 hours ago
It’s wild that the benefits of this outweigh the cost of making it enough to stick around.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
wonder if I could seduce your mom that way
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You have to grow either a vodka bottle or a crack pipe puppet to seduce mine.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
baby how about a vodkipe prottlecrack puppet
Doom@ttrpg.network 6 hours ago
says a lot of how insects identify each other
squaresinger@lemmy.world 54 minutes ago
That’s what happens if you only have access to a handful of brain cells.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 hours ago
Yes, that’s what I wondered, too. In ant nest parasites they usually are visually very different from the ants, but get the pheromones right. In this example here, visual clues have to be important for the beetle to have evolved such a sophisticated mimicry.
happybadger@hexbear.net 9 hours ago
That must have been such a wild evolutionary arms race. I wonder how it even began.
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 16 minutes ago
What do you mean? We’re watching it happen in real time right now with people; vtubers learned to put on costumes of animals, insects or even mythical creatures to get weird internet losers to give them money to feed themselves.
You also have that giant cockroach that learned to put on a human skin called asmongold to get people to subscribe to its twitch channel.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
That’s so freaking cool
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Evolution: I’m winning it.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 46 minutes ago
Just a fellow creature. Nothing suspicious here. snacks please.
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