trolske

@trolske@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedication⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s exactly right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedication⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adaptive here means whether necrophilia occurs in order to still produce offspring, i.e. it’s ‘conscious’ (I use that term veeeery loosely here) or if it occurs just because the animals don’t recognize that the partner is dead.
  I remember a paper about a frog species (not sure if it was the one from the meme) where the mails participated in necrophilia, but they basically tried to squeeze eggs out of anything they grabbed. Living female, dead female, stone, sponge. All the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedication⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I’m getting flasbacks from that. I had to make a presentation whether functional necrophilia in animals is adaptive during my master studies. I had to read so many papers discussing the details. Conclusion: not enough evidence to conclude it’s adaptive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨back to the drawing board⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Feline urine has a relatively small effect compared to feline saliva or fur.