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   benteh (benteh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 05:38:14 JST benteh

   🦋 fabulous things i know about nature. 1/? 🦋

   way back, there was someone who didn't know what tadpoles were, and i wrote a thread over at tweetytweet.

   this thread is coming with me, this time in english.

   🦫 🍏 🦦 🌸 🐝 🦋

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     continuing with the aquatic: my all-time favourite fish 💜

     mudskippers.

     we really need a mudskipper emoji

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAQuoH_fOWM&feature=youtu.be

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     Axolotl! a salamander that never grows up! normal salamanders have a juvenile state as fully aquatic, then develop lungs and feet, and crawl on land to breed.

     Axolotl skips everything after "crawl on land". so they reproduce in a juvenile state – which is a contradiction.

     because if you give them a hormone, they turn into normal, adult salamander. also they look like this – look at that adorable babyface!

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     in norway we scoff & roll our eyes at tujas – did you see Smith's hedge?🙄

     but with a proper time perspective, call it western red, giant cedar, or redwood, and there isn't much room for arrogance 💚 🌲

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     a beetle i met. pretending to be a bumble bee 💜

     the bee beetle

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     another favourite. living butterflies don't spread their wings like most representations of them does.

     only dead and pinned have the wings positioned like that. because science.
     
     so when you see decor with fluttering wings: dead.

     amuses me a good deal.

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     see? dead dead dead as a doorknob

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     magnolia is at least a 95 million year old family. they existed long before bees, and are pollinated by beetles.

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     this little pretty is a carnivorous plant called butterwort, that i regularly meet. it grows all over Norway.

     in the top part it is a nice, friendly, and cute little thing, with nectar, and are well behaved to flying friends.

     on the ground, however, it is sticky and gooey leaves, that traps any little creatures that might try to cross. #omnom

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     a favourite: Luidia sarsii is a brittle star (starfish).

     it's fertilised egg becomes a larvae. INSIDE the larvae, a brittle star develops. INSIDE! then this "migrates" to the outside of the larvae… and they part ways. THEY. the brittle star falls to the ocean bottom and start its starfishy life, and the larvae continues to live as zooplankton for months 🤯

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     snail shells coils usually to the right, but sometimes one is coiled left. those snails can't mate with the right-coiled ones.

     listen about Jeremy

     https://thisislovepodcast.com/one-in-a-million/

     read about Jeremy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(snail)

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     i was an adult before i _really_ understood butterfly metamorphosis and it gobsmacks me every time i think about it.

     the caterpillar has some "discs" that it doesn't need, but are only expressed once it becomes a butterfly. in the pupae, when the caterpillar dissolves itself, everything is a gooey soup except for those discs >

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     > these discs then are used by the soup to compose a butterfly at lightening speed.

     many butterflies can't eat. they don't have any mouth parts or belly. they exist only for sex, to produce more caterpillars.

     all moths are butterflies. not all butterflies are moths.

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     kittens in one litter can have different fathers. so they're kinda both half-siblings and twins.

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     This is Tetraplodon mnioides, a cadaver moss i found.

     it lives on dead lemmings. i think that is absolutely brilliantly cool.

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     some of those who gobbled avocado was giant sloths, they were sloths, just on the ground, and just elephant-sized.

     in norwegian they belong to the "gomlerslekt" which i guess can translated to "gobble-family". which seems fitting, as that is probably what they mainly did. gobbled avocado.

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     Grass snakes mimics the defensive stance of the cobra (front part lifted, flattening head and neck).

     Last time these species shared the same place was Miocen, 23-6 million years ago.

     This behaviour might work against migrating birds that meets cobras in Africa today

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     avocado should have gone extinct. they have massive seeds that needs massive creatures to eat them, and disperse the seeds in massive piles of poo. then all megafauna died out. avocado barely hung on to life, and thank god we saw fit to keep them #nomnom

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     i have a tattoo of a pterodactyl and have a weak spot for archaeopteryx.

     a cousin of them still lives: hoatzin. the chick has a set of claws / fingers on the elbow on the wings.

     all stages of evolution is alive today

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     Palmaris longus is a muscle in the forearm. it is vestigial, we don't need it. but there is no evolutionary pressure either way, so some have it some don't.

     i have it in the left arm and not in the right. i'm basically an atavistic bipedal ape with morton's toe and a monkey tendon.

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     speaking of wrists and tendons. take a long long look at this. it is just beautiful; our family

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     Rhomb porphyry is a pretty rare volcanic rock, only found in a few places. up here you can't take a step without stumbling over the stuff #OsloGraben #OsloRift