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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So you’re a termite?
    “…uhhh totally.”
    What do we like to eat?
    “Stuff and wood and junk.”
    Okay good enough.

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  • MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is some Pokemon shit.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pokemon is really just some real animal kingdom shit.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And not even like…“but cuter!”. Japan has some insanely cute critters.

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    • Sasnak@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I immediately thought of mimikyu!

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just a fellow creature. Nothing suspicious here. snacks please.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      … And it was at that moment that I realized he was a three story tall monster from the Paleolithic era!

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        FUCK OFF NESSIE

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think we have one of those in the Office of President of the United States of America

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  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s wild that the benefits of this outweigh the cost of making it enough to stick around.

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  • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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”

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  • NessD@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The wild thing is: These are hundreds of mutations of several generations that happened randomly until it looked like this.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I want to know how it even started. Like, what was its equivalent of a half eye, you know what I mean?

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  • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Disguise skill level: Agent 47

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Getting Vincent Adultman vibes.

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    • dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How do you do fellow termites?

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    wonder if I could seduce your mom that way

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You have to grow either a vodka bottle or a crack pipe puppet to seduce mine.

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        baby how about a vodkipe prottlecrack puppet

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  • Doom@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    says a lot of how insects identify each other

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s what happens if you only have access to a handful of brain cells.

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      • Doom@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        my mom has some of those

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      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As evidenced by homo sapiens

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  • happybadger@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That must have been such a wild evolutionary arms race. I wonder how it even began.

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    • Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • happybadger@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not saying I’ve never covered myself in feathers and sat naked in a tree waiting for birds to feed me. I’m not perfect, no one is, we’re all on a journey of learning and improving. Growing a termite on your back just seems like it’d take so long before it would trick the termites.

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Must be desperate. Imagine the millions of dead bugs trying to get fed by termites. One after the other failing to be a convincing termite. Until finally the perfect one was born.

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    • bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This the time

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  • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s so freaking cool

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey bro, I am not a beggar bro. I am just carrying this termite to the hospital. Can you give some food for the road bro, promise I am not a beggar.

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  • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Evolution: I’m winning it.

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  • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who is this Mimi which is crying?

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  • catty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Imagine if incels grew kittens on their back to lure lonely women…

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