I know its late but is anyone up who has a weird animal species that does something weird to show me
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@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
@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. -
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.
@gbargoud
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@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 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
@adafede
Hell yes thank you -
@gbargoud
what the fuckIt'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.
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@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 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.
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I know its late but is anyone up who has a weird animal species that does something weird to show me
@jonny The platypus. The better question to ask of that animal is what doesn't it do weirdly
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@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.
@radicalabacus
I need to smell the dread flower -
@jonny The platypus. The better question to ask of that animal is what doesn't it do weirdly
@brib
That is fair but also important to note that we love them -
I know its late but is anyone up who has a weird animal species that does something weird to show me
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@solidstate
strictly eligible. -
@solidstate
strictly eligible.@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
That is fair but also important to note that we love them@jonny Oh they're great because they're weird
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@wlmina
Rhizocephala is such an honor of a name to have in the Latinate species name space.the males are hyperparasites who inject themselves into a settled female and cease to exist as independent organisms through the degeneration of all tissues except the ones responsible for spermatogenesis.
I have read this sentence over and over again and can actively feel my ability to imagine fucked up forms of life growing as I do
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I know its late but is anyone up who has a weird animal species that does something weird to show me
@jonny
Have you seen this ant that @futurebird posted?myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
Attached: 1 image · Content warning: I promise you will not regret looking at this ant
Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)
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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.
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the males are hyperparasites who inject themselves into a settled female and cease to exist as independent organisms through the degeneration of all tissues except the ones responsible for spermatogenesis.
I have read this sentence over and over again and can actively feel my ability to imagine fucked up forms of life growing as I do
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@jonny
Have you seen this ant that @futurebird posted?myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
Attached: 1 image · Content warning: I promise you will not regret looking at this ant
Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)
@lady_alys
@futurebird
That ant whips ass and I love it -
what the fuck are we paying you for, wikipedia editors.
thank you to everyone for showing me weird entities.
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I know its late but is anyone up who has a weird animal species that does something weird to show me
@jonny dude, that's like every other one 🫣
