I know its late but is anyone up who has a weird animal species that does something weird to show me

[liw@toot.liw.fi]

@jonny There's a species of ape that digs up sand and puts lightning through it so that it can produce writing and the apes then believe everything the sand says.

[radicalabacus@hachyderm.io]

@jonny ooh, plants are allowed? The amorphophallus titanum alternates annually between growing one huge leaf and growing one huge flower. The flower smells horrifying and can be smelled from miles away

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@rubinjoni
Kleptoplasty

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@dcoderlt
The shoebill stork is legal tender for all counting public and private

[birds@bots.robots.rodeo]

@nora Atlantic plain xenops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_plain_xenops

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@jonny

I don't know how weird this one is but pigeons, flamingoes and emperor penguins all lactate by shedding their throat linings and regurgitating them to their children. The "milk" they make is known as crop milk.

Crop milk - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[adafede@mastodon.online]

@jonny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organisms, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms, then in terms of weird biologic processes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptobiosis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_death, or for magical superpowers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_the_Harry_Potter_series

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@radicalabacus
I like imagining being in the middle of growing a huge flower and going you know what flowers are played out and the medium is stale, its time to make a big leaf.

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@gbargoud
what the fuck

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@astrobri.bsky.social
What on earth could that possibly feel like, if anything. Is it something where you wake up and go "goddamn my bones are small today" or is it something where you have to decide and then go hnnnnnng and start smushing them

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@adafede
Hell yes thank you

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@jonny

It's one of the things that makes pigeons thrive in cities. They can eat a diet of cigarette butts and trash and filter out the worst parts when feeding their chicks.

[radicalabacus@hachyderm.io]

@jonny I would think that plant was fictional or at least exaggerated, but I met one in Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and can confirm it's real and smells powerfully bad: not just foul but *worrying*, like "I am not descended from animals that hung around in places that smelled like this, because those that did had no descendants."

I should correct myself about "alternates annually" - more like, it makes a leaf annually unless it thinks it can afford a flower.

Wonderfully weird life form, would approach with dread and nauseate myself again.

[brib@bribstodon.xyz]

@jonny The platypus. The better question to ask of that animal is what doesn't it do weirdly

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@radicalabacus
I need to smell the dread flower

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@brib
That is fair but also important to note that we love them

[solidstate@mastodon.social]

@jonny https://youtu.be/HCmHDYR2QgY

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@solidstate
strictly eligible.

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@solidstate
listening. waiting. an opening. pip to warm up. pip pip BYAAHH. its all up. tall, vibrating and 100% you. she's loving it. what are your boys doing. who else is eligible. how many. listening. waiting.

[brib@bribstodon.xyz]

@jonny Oh they're great because they're weird