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Nature is Metal

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  • HoraceH Horace

    Our duck nest is now empty. I think the mother destroyed the eggs before leaving it. I saw small pieces of shell but no larger pieces, and certainly no babies. I guess the eggs were not fertilized. She waited as long as she knew she needed to. They would have hatched by now.

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    @Horace Interesting that they instinct know whether the eggs will be good or not.

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    • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

      @Horace Interesting that they instinct know whether the eggs will be good or not.

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      @taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal:

      @Horace Interesting that they instinct know whether the eggs will be good or not.

      She didn't know, beyond waiting enough time for them to hatch, which is a month. But she sat on them for a month. She only knew after they didn't hatch.

      Education is extremely important.

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        "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." β€” Thomas Sowell

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          Decisive. Told her twice.

          Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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          • MikM Away
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            Antisemitism sez I.

            "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." β€” Thomas Sowell

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              Link to video

              Education is extremely important.

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              • MikM Away
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                Mik
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                Smart snail.

                "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." β€” Thomas Sowell

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                  Horace
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                  Link to video

                  Education is extremely important.

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                  • jon-nycJ Offline
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                    He had it coming.

                    Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                      https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2025/05/31/burmese-python-florida-killed-bobcat-everglades-video-photos/83945813007/

                      Only about twice the size of domestic cats, Florida's bobcats may be small in size, but they're big in moxie.

                      Case in point: A bobcat appears to have killed a massive, 13-foot Burmese python in the Everglades recently and made a meal of it.

                      The 52-pound male python was a Conservancy of Southwest Florida scout snake nicknamed Loki. Scout snakes have implanted transmitters that are tracked and used to lure breeding females.

                      The invasive snake was found in a pile of debris, apparently mauled, with its head smashed and slashed, and partially buried for later feeding.

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                        Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

                        Link to video

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                          Based.

                          Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                            Genes want to survive. Organisms only think they want to survive, because that thought is useful to the genes.

                            Education is extremely important.

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                              I'd say that genes are just as dispassionate as LLMs are. It just happens to be the case that genes that do not contribute to replicating themselves disappear after a while.

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                                The teeth of the Maine blood worm are made from @copper. (Just joking - made from real copper)

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                                • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                                  Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

                                  Link to video

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                                  @taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal:

                                  Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

                                  Cannot tell from the video whether babies eat each other too. Are the babies smart enough to distinguish mother from siblings?

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                                    @taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal:

                                    Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

                                    Cannot tell from the video whether babies eat each other too. Are the babies smart enough to distinguish mother from siblings?

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                                    @Axtremus In my very small research, it appears that

                                    • the mother is already dying when giving birth. So, maybe gives off some sort of smell the babies recognize?

                                    • there is some bacteria in the mother that helps the babies digest things, which I guess they by instinct know.

                                    So, I dont think that they eat other babies.

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                                      Link to video

                                      Education is extremely important.

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                                      • MikM Away
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                                        That’s funny.

                                        "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." β€” Thomas Sowell

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                                          Male bees die after mating with females

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