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from fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz on 25 Mar 15:26
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40749755
from fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz on 25 Mar 15:26
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40749755
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Being alive is good!
Citation needed /s
What’s the /s mean?
Sarcasm :)
Oh ok. Then why is it there?
To mark an unserious comment
Odd, how is it unserious?
I’m sorry, do you have something you want to say? I’m trying to be friendly but I see you may have something else in mind
They said being alive is good, then you said citation needed but you marked it as unserious, as if no citation was needed.
Yeah, that’s sorta the gist of it, there’s not much to it.
I include an extra, redundant /s mostly out of habit in case it flies over someone’s head who decides to reply seriously. I’ve had that awkward thing happen before. But as one of my professors used to say, “nothing is obvious” so I’ve taken that to the bank.
I’d still think a citation would be needed.
And not as a survival strategy when threatened. For fun, and then they laugh (see attached pictures).
Obviously /s, they’re adorable.
Improvise, adapt, overcome
, yeet.
I don’t get what the fuss is about, I would do it too. And you can always make more later. /s
It’s true, I just threw the equivalent population of a small country in the bin. Can’t say I’m not pleased with myself rn. 😌
Why? Let me tell ou something (compassionists hate this simple trick). As a relativist egoist it’s so much easier. Do what you want to do, morality is a spook anyway. Want to bin a baby? Go for it! Want to introduce new DNA sequences in fertile humans? Do what you feel like doing. As long as you can exploit the consequences for your own gain. Life is just so much easier this way. /s
I just want to poop cubes like a wombat. How close to that is science? How about mad science?
That’s one bad mother quokka
Johnathan Swift would have a field day with this.
So would Lrrr, ruler of the Planet Omicron Persei 8.
Why am I feeling a bit proud that I got the reference? 😄
Humans do this too during war time
Not really on any significant scale.
/s?
You have not seen babymortar launchers of Ukraine? If they had enough supply they would not hesitate to blot out the sun. Thankfully brave special operation heroes rescue many. But maybe you don’t know, you’re just indoctrinated with western propaganda. I lost a friend to this once, him and entire helicopter dead. Birdstrike much less dangerous than babystrike.
“War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other” -Niko Bellic
"Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.” - Einstein, plagiarizing Niko
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…after the predator instantly becomes enamored with the adorable baby quokka, and calls her own kids over to play.
Kangaroos do the same. To be fair, evolutionarily it makes sense. (They only do it when they have literally no escape, and the choice is either both of them dying or the kid dying, soo…)
I bet in pre-history it happened more often than not in humans, and within recorded history has likely happened more times than anyone would admit.
eeeh our whole evolutionary niche is to be so social that we’ll form bonds with a literal rock, i can’t see the vast vast vast majority of mentally healthy humans managing to do it, more likely they’d try to gently throw the child away from the danger and sacrifice themselves.
Yeah. We evolved to survive as a group. Not as individuals.
Kangaroos while they do sometimes form groups, are far far less social, and kids of dead parents aren’t adopted like what would happen in a human group.
Kangaroos form two sorts of groups
Some of the skeletons that we’ve found from… basically the last ice age, some even further back, show humans (or proto humans) that had had badly fractured bones… but they healed up (not well by modern standards, but nonetheless), and then those bones grew, and the individual died at a much greater age than when the serious fracture occured.
… And these people are buried in graves, with grave goods, not just thrown out or left behind in the wild.
Strong evidence of early human groups actually giving enough of a shit about their members to take care of the wounded, helps to be able to date early societal formation.
…substack.com/…/the-first-sign-of-civilization-ho…
Empathy and responsibility to care for others are actually the literal foundation of human society and civilization, contra to Musk and all the fascists and Christian Nationalists recently claiming ‘empathy is a sin’.
Plenty of anecdotal stories of infant brothers and sisters not making it through hiding during the holocaust because of muffling their cries.
I don’t care enough to ruin my day by validating a of them though.
Okay, but I don’t think this was intentional suffocation of the kids. This seems much more as an attempt to get everyone to survive
I read that parents ate some kids during famines. Could be bullshit though, I don’t want to look.
oh you can validate them real easy: it’s anecdotal, thus false until actually proven.
That babies name? Its true. He grew up to be albert einstine
It’s true. There are various witnesses of the Shoa who absolutely did testify this happened. I actually spoke to one of them in school - during highschool two survivors of the holocaust did come to my (German) highschool and talked about what they went through, extremely nice people with extremely horrible stories.
One of them explained how they hid in an abandoned building and how the mother of the other family hiding with them choked their 8 week old baby when there was a official patrol nearby and they had to stay quiet. Didn’t help, they got caught shortly after and as far as we were told none of the other family made it.
The worst thing? It’s one of the “less gruesome” stories the whole Holocaust has…
I don’t think that would be the general case with humans under these kinds of circumstances. For most of history, women had many more children on average than we see in most of the world today. It was expected that many wouldn’t live past three years old in much of known, recorded history. I can only imagine in circumstances even more primitive than what we know of, something like this wouldn’t be as unthinkable as you’re describing.
Oh absolutely. We used to not give kids names until they were 3 years or so old. To not get attached.
You do not have to outrun an angry bear to survive a bear attack.
You only have to outrun your least agile camping buddy.
That's my mom at a '70s measles party.
Motherquokka!
That’s why Bambi was about a deer not a quokka
This motherquokka…
You motherquokka, I wanted to comment that!
Tell your children not to walk my way…
This is how I feel today.
This just happened to me today. A chipmunk was startled by me as I opened a door, and bolted… Her tiny week old baby was left sprawling near my feet.
I used a hand warmer and some microfiber cloths to keep it warm, then thankfully the mother came back for it… But like… Wtf, Mom?
The baby can’t survive without its mom. But the mom can make new babies.
Hey man, fuck them kids. As Mr. Krabs once said, ‘what have children ever done for me?’
^certifies Spongebob philosopher
If you are alive, you can make more babies. /s
Damn, nature is really cruel.
Wait til you hear about this sentience thing
Sentience, or sapience? Every animal is sentient.
Haven’t we moved into the belief that many/most multicellular organisms are sentient?
This topic fascinates me. I’m not trying to be confrontational or argumentative, sorry if it comes off that way.
Yes. All animals are sentient, and other organisms are, too. It’s a low bar to clear. It’s a pet peeve of mine that “sentient” has been co-opted to mean “sapient.”
That is very frustrating, to be sure.
However, the ways we’ve begun to think about sapience are so intriguing, as well. We’re beginning to move away from the anthropocentric view that humans are the only sapient creatures. Corvids, elephants, and dolphins probably already make the cut (among other vertebrates) according to the current definition of sapience.
Ants, too, which makes me wonder about the potential for deepening our understand of group/swarm sapience, as well. True “hive minds”, etc. Fascinating stuff!
So much of our understanding of the natural world comes from comparing creatures to ourselves through surface level observation. The more we can relate to an organism, as we perceive it, the more likely we are to elevate its status or “worthiness”, it seems. Now, in the presence of modern technology, we’re discovering how little we actually knew about how the world around us works.
This all ties strongly into historic religious world-views, and elevation of humans to god-like (or god’s chosen) status. So much to unpack!
Meanwhile there are animals that so rarely can find a mate that when they do they mate with the first mate they can find and then just fucking die.
Why did you have to call me out like that? /s
She gets an extra d12 damage with improvised weapons what do you expect
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Reminds me of a science fiction story.
Intelligent reptiles give birth to hundreds of eggs at a time. They eat most of the young live. The Queen of the planet offers the visiting Terrans a big bowlful of wriggling babies at a banquet.
It’s pragmatic; the mother can make more babies if she gets away. She doesn’t have to gloat so hard about it, though.
@NaturalHabitatShorts on youtube has a bit about this.
Their whole channel is just animated comedy shorts about weird things animals do and the voice acting is great.
This is one of my favorite channels. Thanks for spreading awareness.
TIL how to catch a Pikachu.
Quokkas are so adorably happy looking! 😃 I’ve never heard of anyone disliking them.
That’s one John Oliver looking motherquokka