Poogona

@Poogona@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leeches!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I found out that leech saliva was antimicrobial I decided leeches are good and that disliking them is lookism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to the Deep Sea!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even without a centralized brain, jellyfish can both learn from past events and change their behavior to preempt expected events.

  No need to look for aliens in space when we’ve got plenty of them to make contact with underwater

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  anyone who tries to claim there was any absolute standard of behavior for pre-industrial tribes like that is just doing fantasy worldbuilding

  Every social organization you can think of was probably the way of life for someone out there, from patriarchy to matriarchy, communal to hierarchical

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't trust like that.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get apprehensive around wasps too but it’s very funny to me how much hatred and distrust these animals are met with because they are able to force you to treat them with a little respect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Joy & Curiosity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s usually justified to make fun of STEMlords but scientists with highly specific skills are still a vital part of our societal whole (I choose to believe this for my own sake)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Turtles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah the Marine iguanas, incredible footage, some of the best ever imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the Lizadies out there!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I talked with a resaearcher who bluntly called whiptails “a bunch of lesbos” and he wasn’t even being funny, they still sorta kinda have sex to stimulate egg production.

  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8556411/

  That study has a great diagram: Image

  Observe the science man presiding over the lizards and their inscrutable hormones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a good article that showcases the way AAA games are basically hollow. They wear a lot of art, incredibly elaborate, expensive, art, but none of it comes together to make the experience it promises. Everything is built in separate pieces and stuck together later, and its boring gameplay that shows no interest in being art of its own is the glue. I remember Yahtzee did a video about the first Destiny that made this same point, about how the environmental art in a few areas was fascinating and clearly full of effort, but the gameplay was a slog that lacked the same ambition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plugs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨try fingers but hole⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Theory" of Evolution (SMBC)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the real issue in a way is that there’s just so much evidence of evolution happening that it’s hard to find a single shared pattern to study

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ant smell⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes ants can’t smell ants either and you get supercolonies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fight the power⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aussie magpies are ridiculously smart, love them as an example of convergent evolution since they are not corvids but rather songbirds that have evolved to be more crow-like to fill a similar niche as corvids

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨trains⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Studio Ghibli vibes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨isopods are friends⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  love me some land crustaceans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenged :(⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully I crawled through with a passing grade, it’s all behind me

  But the benzene rings, they still haunt my nightmares

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenged :(⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So ashamed of how shit I was at organic chemistry

  My brain just could not complete those fucking benzene rings why am I so INCOMPETENT WHY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biomimicry⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That question below is honestly a good way to demonstrate how poor people can be at understanding what would be called materialism without it being explained to them first

  Easy to assume the shape of that flower is due to decisions made by the plant itself instead of the more accurate way of understanding its shape being the result of external conditions and pressures acting upon the plant and its flower growth over a long time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨David Attenborough to present third and final series of Planet Earth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay people of this thread you gotta just accept the fact that activism is always gonna be at the end. Like I don’t intend for this to insult anyone’s intelligence, I promise, but you gotta understand that it’s matter of love. Spend enough time in a headspace in which funky lizards and ugly insects and smelly lil rats are your companions both physically and mentally and these things matter to you in ways that approach your love for people, it’s just the truth of it. I’m surprised Attenborough docs aren’t all activism and calls to action at this point, it’s so frightening and overwhelming that I myself have drifted away from field research because in my cowardice I just couldn’t bear to get more attached.

  But yeah sadly he’s too old (British) to be able to summon anything like a cohesive call to action, which sucks ass