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04 Oct 2020, 11:42 am

I'll just....yeah...:

Enjoy your nightmares.

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04 Oct 2020, 4:05 pm

Gosh! The fish just sits there until that thing 80 percent engulfs him. And only THEN starts tries to get away, but by then it has fight to get out of the cone.

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04 Oct 2020, 4:07 pm

Fish was asleep. Imagine waking up to...that.

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08 Oct 2020, 2:54 pm

Someone mentioned "Sea Monkeys" a while back... a new relative of theirs has just been discovered in the Lat Desert in Iran, where the ground temperature can get above 80 degrees C. Their eggs can survive high temperatures and dehydration. On the rare occasions when it rains, they hatch out and live very fast little lives in the gently steaming puddles. The new species is called "Phallocryptus fahimii," and like Sea Monkeys they're Anostracans, also known as Fairy Shrimp.

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08 Oct 2020, 5:09 pm

PhosphorusDecree wrote:

The new species is called "Phallocryptus fahimii," and like Sea Monkeys they're Anostracans, also known as Fairy Shrimp.

The freshwater variety are called ostracods and they are vital for aquatic food chains as an intermediary between plant based microbes and more complex aquatic animals.

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08 Oct 2020, 5:25 pm

I found out that ants like working alone when wombling, but they then come back together when at home.

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08 Oct 2020, 10:34 pm

Ants, wasps, bees and termites are social insects. They coordinate together in a manner that is not unlike humans except they are selfless.

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08 Oct 2020, 11:25 pm

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Snapping Turtles have an interesting trait. They can become invisible. Well not really invisible but they can camouflage themselves so well that they might as well be invisible.

Here is a photo of a snapping turtle. Can you see it?

Ops! Now it moved. Can you see it now?

Arnie used this camouflage technique against The Preditor.

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09 Oct 2020, 1:10 am

cyberdad wrote:

Ants, wasps, bees and termites are social insects. They coordinate together in a manner that is not unlike humans except they are selfless.

Humans are social, these insects are eusocial.

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09 Oct 2020, 1:13 am

Pepe wrote:

jimmy m wrote:

Ops! Now it moved. Can you see it now?

Arnie used this camouflage technique against The Preditor.

But that still doesnt answer the question. The burning eternal question.

Which is.....

which is better eatin'?

Snapping turtle, or venison?

Well...it MUST be an important question. Country singer Johnny Paycheck served a two year prison sentence for shooting a guy in a bar when they got into argument over it! :lol:

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09 Oct 2020, 1:16 am

Pepe wrote:

Hmmmmm I reckon he would be spotted (just a wild guess :lol:

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09 Oct 2020, 1:17 am

Wolfram87 wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Ants, wasps, bees and termites are social insects. They coordinate together in a manner that is not unlike humans except they are selfless.

Humans are social, these insects are eusocial.

Ah I learned a new word !

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09 Oct 2020, 1:35 am

Wolfram87 wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Ants, wasps, bees and termites are social insects. They coordinate together in a manner that is not unlike humans except they are selfless.

Humans are social, these insects are eusocial.

Yes. Its a false analogy to compare humans with bees/wasps/termites.

A human city doesnt rely on one female to do all of the reproducing while the rest are "workers".

But...oddly enough there is one mammal that has evolved a social structure much like that of bees and ants. And its not humans. It is the African mole rat.

Speaking of strange "animal facts" the African mole rat is strange wrapped in strange!