• wia@lemmy.caEnglish
      451·
      11 hours ago

      Biologist here,
      that pinecone pop is always fun, cus it’s like unintentional biology lesson time when people do it.

      It’s by “design” (evolution) that they do that. So that the specific species can spread.

      It’s why fires are important for forests. Just you know not like 90 trillion fires in 1 summer…

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    178·
    11 hours ago

    Man fuck cuckoos. Raise your own children, you little fucking parasites.

    I mean they literally lay their eggs in another bird’s nest, and then the chick kicks out the other eggs when it hatches, so that another bird mom will think it’s their own and mistakenly raise it, while screwing over the other chicks before they even have a chance to be born.

    I wish these fuckers would go extinct.

    • Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      312·
      10 hours ago

      Nest parasitism is not unique to cuckoos and you can’t really put a value judgement on evolution. Brown-headed cowbirds are the most common nest parasites in North America. There’s lots of species where the parents kill their own children if they either think they aren’t strong enough to survive or if the food supply is too insecure to care for them. It’s just nature.

      • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        9 hours ago

        I can and I will. No /s. I’m 100% serious.

        Its pure evil and proof there is no god. I wish all parasitic creatures would fuck off and die. The world is fucked up enough as-is.

        • alt_xa_23@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          47 minutes ago

          Parasitic creatures play an important role in regulating the environment.

          A species with no checks will spread out of control, causing serious ecological damage. (I.e. Emerald ash borer, kudzu, tree of heaven)

          It may be gruesome from our perspective, but it’s just part of how nature regulates itself.

        • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          131·
          8 hours ago

          How is parasitism any worse than straight up eating something else? Also, house cats kill for fun. Should they go extinct?

          • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            9·
            6 hours ago

            I think there might be some anthropomorphism affecting the opinion, and I know a lot of people dislike "raising someone else’s children ", especially unknowingly.

            In humans, this mostly happens to men just due to biology, but I’m sure some women have experienced swapped kids.

            It’s not like those animals are betraying defined social constructs while knowing better, so i agree with you more on this, but that would be my best guess for someone reacting so emotionally to it.

            (Also there’s far worse things to use for the “no god” argument, like cancer and numerous other vicious diseases or syndromes)

        • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
          4·
          9 hours ago

          *Me, walking past a Storks nest and ignoring the fallen chick that is dead since days*

          “so majestic”

    • webp@mander.xyzEnglish
      8·
      10 hours ago

      Fair, but let’s not extinct another species because of how we feel about its adaptations.

        • Bo7a@lemmy.caEnglish
          16·
          12 hours ago

          Furlow the squirrel-o is offended by your unfounded accusations.

          More seriously though. Given abundance of food basically everything we ‘know’ about animal species interaction gets thrown out the window.

          At any moment outside my window you find a dozen species eating side by side every single day that we were told would ‘for sure kill each other before sharing a food source’.

          What that says about scarcity in relation to humanity I’ll leave to someone else…

          • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            10 hours ago

            The animals in my yard behave very differently than the animals a couple of hundred yards away in the woods.