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Interesting Animal Facts
Topic Started: Jan 28 2011, 12:17 AM (1,725 Views)
Ddraig Goch
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Female fireflies of the Photuris genus imitate the light patterns of other firefly species, in order to attract males of these other species, which they then kill and eat. In some cases, the female Photuris devote so much time to perfecting their mimicry that they lose their own distinct signal. As a result, the male Photuris sometimes end up having to imitate other species themselves, just to get close to the females in order to mate.

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http://www.cracked.com/article/109_natures-6-most-diabolical-predators_p2
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Thats very plesant...
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Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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Jan 28 2011, 07:35 PM
Unless of course you become friends with it.
Me and my little brother had a friend who was a kid (a baby goat)... We used to go and play with it, chase it around etc... this was in Greece in 1971 - during Lent. soon as Easter came, we walked down to the slaughterhouse in the village (it was a vacant house next door to the village butcher) with the owner of the farm and watched the slaughter man cut its head off with a long curved knife... for some reason, they seemed to practise a form of Halal butchery there, must have been something imposed on them by the Turks? They did the same thing with lambs and piglets (seems ironic to Halal slaughter a piglet!).

Anyway - when the kid's head was still hanging on by a few tendons, it could still look around and move its lips...
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It does take a moment for the brain to shut down.
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Jan 28 2011, 11:35 PM
Sharks are immune to all diseases including cancer.
They are fish, therefore they can get THE ICK. All fish get THE ICK. Some of my fish died from it once... All my fish died from it.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Jan 30 2011, 04:16 AM
soulpelt
Jan 28 2011, 11:35 PM
Sharks are immune to all diseases including cancer.
They are fish, therefore they can get THE ICK. All fish get THE ICK. Some of my fish died from it once... All my fish died from it.
Sharks don't get ick(oddly), they do have there own surface fungi and they do get cancer. The idea was started by a book called Sharks Don't Get Cancer which was a homeopathic scam to sell shark extracts.
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Another "fact" about animals I found fascinating was the stray dogs in Moscow who catch the train each day to go begging and scavenging, then take the train back to the outskirts at the end of the day :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_dogs_in_Moscow

and one thing I found fascinating, was the natural selection process to favour "cuter" dogs who were more likely to pursuade a human to share a scrap of food...
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(Ddraig, don't most genuses of firefly lay traps for other males?)

No animal is immune to disease. And disease can mutate to beat any resistance.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I don't know, I'm afraid, Holben. I just went off what the source said.
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Wikipedia says:
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Female Photuris fireflies are known for mimicking the mating flashes of other "lightning bugs" for the sole purpose of predation. Target males are attracted to what appears to be a suitable mate, and are then eaten. For this reason the Photuris species are sometimes referred to as "femme fatale fireflies."
So it might be just them.
Edited by Holben, Jan 30 2011, 09:06 AM.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Jan 28 2011, 11:31 PM
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Jan 28 2011, 07:35 PM
Unless of course you become friends with it.
Exactly my point. You learn to not become friends with food (didn't your parents teach you not to play with your food?). It's not true in all cases though. My friend TJ lives out in the country, and he used to have a bull named T-Bone. Bet you'll never guess what happened to him.
Or you become veggie. I don't make friends with my food, probably because what i eat has no emotion
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Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

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Jan 30 2011, 10:57 AM
Admiral Parasky
Jan 28 2011, 11:31 PM
Brutal Sniper 64
Jan 28 2011, 07:35 PM
Unless of course you become friends with it.
Exactly my point. You learn to not become friends with food (didn't your parents teach you not to play with your food?). It's not true in all cases though. My friend TJ lives out in the country, and he used to have a bull named T-Bone. Bet you'll never guess what happened to him.
Or you become veggie. I don't make friends with my food, probably because what i eat has no emotion
We don't know that vegetables (and plants in general, for that matter) lack emotions. We used to think they couldn't think, but we know now that they are capable of some form of simple thought.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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You guys know the fuckers/catalchis from Snaiad?

Apparently, there is something on Earth quite similar to them.

I'm talking about bedbugs and mites people.

These tiny insects have actually modified their reproductive organs into a ripping organ like that of Snaiad fututoriformes.

In fact, this ripping organ is one of the main reasons for mite migration: females fear the mating process.
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Jan 30 2011, 08:05 PM
You guys know the fuckers/catalchis from Snaiad?

Apparently, there is something on Earth quite similar to them.

I'm talking about bedbugs and mites people.

These tiny insects have actually modified their reproductive organs into a ripping organ like that of Snaiad fututoriformes.

In fact, this ripping organ is one of the main reasons for mite migration: females fear the mating process.
I saw that the other day on Animal Planet ...

But they're "bugs" - not mites... mites are arachnids...

Bed bugs (related to lice I believe?) actually rupture the exoskeleton of females with their penis, and fill her body cavity and blood stream with their sperm, which usually prevents other males from mating with her...

But they also rape other males and do the same thing, the result being that when/if the raped male succeeds in raping a female, he will impregnate her with his rapist's sperm and not his own...

fascinating!!!

Often the truth of life on Earth is stranger than the fiction of xenobiology...
Edited by Zoroaster, Jan 30 2011, 08:41 PM.
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