This is some Pokemon shit.
Biomimicry
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al 2 months ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Pokemon is really just some real animal kingdom shit.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And not even like…“but cuter!”. Japan has some insanely cute critters.
Sasnak@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I immediately thought of mimikyu!
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
… And it was at that moment that I realized he was a three story tall monster from the Paleolithic era!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
FUCK OFF NESSIE
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 months 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 2 months ago
It’s wild that the benefits of this outweigh the cost of making it enough to stick around.
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 months 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”
NessD@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The wild thing is: These are hundreds of mutations of several generations that happened randomly until it looked like this.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I want to know how it even started. Like, what was its equivalent of a half eye, you know what I mean?
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
How do you do fellow termites?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
wonder if I could seduce your mom that way
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You have to grow either a vodka bottle or a crack pipe puppet to seduce mine.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
baby how about a vodkipe prottlecrack puppet
Doom@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
says a lot of how insects identify each other
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 months 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.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s what happens if you only have access to a handful of brain cells.
Doom@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
my mom has some of those
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
As evidenced by homo sapiens
happybadger@hexbear.net 2 months ago
That must have been such a wild evolutionary arms race. I wonder how it even began.
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 2 months 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.
happybadger@hexbear.net 2 months 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.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months 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.
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This the time
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s so freaking cool
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Evolution: I’m winning it.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Who is this Mimi which is crying?
catty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine if incels grew kittens on their back to lure lonely women…
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So you’re a termite?
“…uhhh totally.”
What do we like to eat?
“Stuff and wood and junk.”
Okay good enough.