Poogona
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- Comment on Plugs 16 hours 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 4 days ago:
- Comment on "Theory" of Evolution (SMBC) 2 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes ants can’t smell ants either and you get supercolonies
- Comment on fight the power 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Studio Ghibli vibes
- Comment on isopods are friends 2 months ago:
love me some land crustaceans
- Comment on challenged :( 2 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 :( 2 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 3 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 9 months 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