Today I learned I might be an axolotl with siblings because my grocery bill is costing me an arm and a leg.
Axolotls!
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
This can’t be efficient.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s not.
They’re not sharing … they’re cannibalizing each other due to scarce resources.
Just they’re lucky that if their shallow pool floods and they make it to a larger cenote they can hopefully survive.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Oh I had just woken up and thought they were eating their own limbs.
aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Do they not feel pain or any dislike to being partially eaten?
vatlark@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Xad-xolotl
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
My older brother would’ve eaten me and my mother wouldn’t even shred a tear 🥲
90s_hacker@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
That’s so adorably fucked up
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
standarduser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Mazel tov 👏👏👏
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Its an animation about axolotl family “violence”
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In the words of Jimmy Olsen, JESUS CHRIST.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
They will completely devour their siblings given the chance, not just eat their legs. Generally juvenile behaviour from them, once they have grown up they don’t usually eat each other. Freshly hatched don’t either for the first few weeks to months.
Plus especially in the wild, not having legs is going to put you at quite a disadvantage. They can eventually grow back but its not like its good for them.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Metal.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do they not do it as newborns just because they’re unable to yet?