Nature is Metal
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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.
wrote on 14 May 2025, 15:05 last edited by@Horace Interesting that they instinct know whether the eggs will be good or not.
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@Horace Interesting that they instinct know whether the eggs will be good or not.
wrote on 14 May 2025, 15:19 last edited by@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.
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wrote on 15 May 2025, 20:20 last edited by
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wrote on 15 May 2025, 23:17 last edited by
Decisive. Told her twice.
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wrote on 15 May 2025, 23:19 last edited by
Antisemitism sez I.
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wrote on 24 May 2025, 15:53 last edited by
Smart snail.
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wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 01:41 last edited by
He had it coming.
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wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 01:45 last edited by
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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wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 15:02 last edited by
Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek
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Based.
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wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 16:07 last edited by
Genes want to survive. Organisms only think they want to survive, because that thought is useful to the genes.
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wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 16:17 last edited by
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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wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 03:00 last edited by
The teeth of the Maine blood worm are made from @copper. (Just joking - made from real copper)
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Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek
Link to videowrote on 5 Jun 2025, 12:09 last edited by@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?
wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 13:16 last edited by@Axtremus In my very small research, it appears that
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the mother is already dying when giving birth. So, maybe gives off some sort of smell the babies recognize?
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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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That’s funny.
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wrote on 18 Jun 2025, 17:28 last edited by
Male bees die after mating with females
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