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Zonko_T.M. posted:How could this get worse? How could this get worse?! I'm no snailologist, but I'm pretty sure that snails regenerate lost eyestalks. So a bird will rip out a snail's eyes, but as that picture shows, bulk of the parasite is deeper inside. If the snail survives, it will regenerate a new pair of parasitized eyestalks, and the cycle repeats, and repeats...
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Jvie posted:I'm no snailologist, but I'm pretty sure that snails regenerate lost eyestalks. it's a wild world out there. protect ya eye stalks people. 
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Jvie posted:I'm no snailologist, but I'm pretty sure that snails regenerate lost eyestalks. I am neither birdologist nor snailologist, but I find it questionable that the snail will survive the first encounter with the bird.
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Ariong posted:I am neither birdologist nor snailologist, but I find it questionable that the snail will survive the first encounter with the bird. I have no professional bonafides at all but I think the idea is the bird can't be bothered with the snail shell so it takes the wormy eyes and gtfo.
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uber_stoat posted:I have no professional bonafides at all but I think the idea is the bird can't be bothered with the snail shell so it takes the wormy eyes and gtfo. Crows have learned to drop nuts at busy intersections in order to have cars run them over and crack hard shells. It would literally be harder for a bird to 'just' rip off an eye stalk of parasitic snail than it would to just pick up the whole thing and drop it from up on high, cracking its shell and then taking the now naked snail back to it's nest. If birds were over 6ft tall and scaley we'd be bowing down to our dinosaur masters.
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Luckily for us, flightless birds seem to have real problems competing with mammals 
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Randaconda posted:Luckily for us, flightless birds seem to have real problems competing with mammals My old chums from MWO would have a squawk or two to say about that!
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Randaconda posted:Luckily for us, flightless birds seem to have real problems competing with mammals 
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I like Terry Pratchett's take on the Prometheus myth. The Greek version doesn’t tell what happened after Heracles freed Prometheus; on the Discworld, his counterpart (Fingers-Mazda, IIRC) ambushes the eagle and gets some payback.
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You dont fight the birds You set rats and pigs on the eggs
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Holy poo poo, that's a great idea! brb, I'm going to get in my time machine and go back to introduce rats to Australia
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BAD IDEA BAD IDEA BAD IDEA
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If I'm not horribly mistaken, the reason that the emus won was that they can take a hell of a lot of standard bullets before they die or even notice that they're hurt, partially because their brains basically have two thoughts, "hungry" and "make wierd gulp-choking noise"
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Man ever since kojima left, silent hill has gone to poo poo with the budgets.
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 the stand in for the CGI Clifford.
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RandomFerret posted:BAD IDEA BAD IDEA BAD IDEA It would only be bad for the British Penal Colonies, i'm sure 200 years of evolution of rats in Australia would produce some egg laying, venom spraying, web spinning, semi-aquatic uber-rat that would be good for... something.
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This got posted to my Facebook:   It's called a Jenny Haniver. Essentially it's the oldest type of fake known, easily dating back to the 1500s. It's made by modifying the remains of a ray or skate, then mummifying it.
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M_Sinistrari posted:This got posted to my Facebook: what a beautiful baby. mazel tov
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M_Sinistrari posted:This got posted to my Facebook: I was going to make a joke about how someone must have really hated Jenny, but Wikipedia tells me it’s a corruption of the French phrase jeune d'Anvers which means “youth of Antwerp” and that’s way loving funnier imo
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christmas boots posted:“youth of Antwerp” Checks out 
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christmas boots posted:I was going to make a joke about how someone must have really hated Jenny, but Wikipedia tells me it’s a corruption of the French phrase jeune d'Anvers which means “youth of Antwerp” and that’s way loving funnier imo One of my new colleagues is from Antwerp, I'm definitely going to tell her this first thing Monday
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M_Sinistrari posted:This got posted to my Facebook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_monk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop-fish
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There's a black widow right outside my front door with a lizard or tiny snake about that size. Dude is eating well. 
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scumby posted:There's a black widow right outside my front door with a lizard or tiny snake about that size. Dude is eating well. Tiny little red back spiders in Australia have started catching mice. Their poison isn't strong enough to kill the mice so they just stun it and bind it with webbing to eat it alive. 
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Inceltown posted:Tiny little red back spiders in Australia have started catching mice. Their poison isn't strong enough to kill the mice so they just stun it and bind it with webbing to eat it alive. Let's hope they consume the entire mouse, because if it survives after the bite, well... 
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The Bloop posted:Checks out Instantly heard the narrator from Shadows of Darkness going "Ohhhhhh, you've been [i]antwerped]/i]!" But fortunately they were just baby antwerp, you see.
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I did not need to know this.
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scumby posted:There's a black widow right outside my front door with a lizard or tiny snake about that size. Dude is eating well. She appears to have a boyfriend/future snack nearby, too. Life is good.
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Oh poo poo that circle is going to eat that dude! What's the context?
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OutOfPrint posted:Oh poo poo that circle is going to eat that dude! Grandpa got into the RV and he has a few things to say about how much your on your phone
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this owns, spiders own
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OutOfPrint posted:Oh poo poo that circle is going to eat that dude! Couldn't find one without the circle and best  lighting.https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/photograph-ghost-wielding-axe-aboard-3955922
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Chard posted:this owns, spiders own Would you still feel the same if they could fly? https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1178017364387889152
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