myrmepropagandist
This timelapse of a fungus kept by leafcutter ants is remarkable. Thousands of ants monitoring humidity, the nutrition needs of the fungus, removing unwanted growths, keeping their brood and harvesting food. Inside: the queen. Totally inclosed in a living home. The walls are food, a place for her eggs, they slowly renew, tended by her daughters.
As every living organism maintains itself, but on a strange macro-scale. These are your cells shedding and being replaced.
Vayl Larkin (they/them)
@futurebird I also love that we are the fungus and we also have a ton of ants.
A bit ago, I saw some enhanced electron microscope images of our bodies' nanofilament network and various motor proteins in action. Reminded me of the Doozers from Fraggle Rock, if that's a reference ever/still. Hehe
It's stuff like this that made the child of a nuclear physicist focus on biosciences. Ooh. An atom. Here's a species with 20 functional genders and ultraviolet vision. SO much cooler! :)
clacke
Comment: "is anybody else here from that post about "stripping completely naked to keep her attention while i infodump about ants" "
The post, of course, is from Tumblr. This repost has an easier to read thread and is not overzealously locked behind a sensitive label:
tumblr.com/hidinginmybochard/7…
Original source:
clacke
Cool comments:
crazyyyyyy....whose running the show, the ants or the fungus?
Studies say that the fungus is the dominant partner in the symbiotic relationship.…
clacke
clacke
@futurebird Like a CW: "Mature Content // This content has been hidden due to its potentially mature nature."
It's not any raunchier than what you get from the reference, it says "stripping". EDIT: and "sex" and "hard", but not in any way graphic
Even when logged into Tumblr, I can't figure out how to go past the warning to see the original post.
myrmepropagandist
What "sensitive label" ?
clacke
myrmepropagandist
oh wait I do see it, it's on the first post, but not the thread reblogging it. Which is also strange.
myrmepropagandist
to be honest that post felt a little too much like a personal attack to me.
clacke
Jens Finkhäuser
@clacke @futurebird humans still think they're dominant, but we've boosted the chicken population so that it now outnumbers us 3:1 or more.
*Edit* math before coffee, fixed now.
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