Bioloby

The ramblings of a forest spirit

[dailymtgflavortext]

"I'll show you original research, you hack!"

-Academic Dispute

[rathayibacter]

cracking myself up thinking about the movement towards simplified forms in cave paintings

[rathayibacter]

grug: grug must paint every hair on buffalo in realistic detail

thog: grug can chill out, audience know what buffalo look like. just do one line like thog

[rathayibacter]

thog: cave painting world no longer look for photorealism. expression of form and movement is new frontier

grug: but then how will grug demonstrate high level of skill? grug have art degree

thog: any caveman represent buffalo as it is. grug must represent what it means to grug

grug: hm. this will challenge grug. but grug enjoy rising to occasion

[mikkeneko]

[wizardsexmachine]

OOHHH FUUBLBLBLBLB

[royal-random-the-yogurt-queen]

Sometimes I'm glad jellyfish have no central nervous system and just vibe. Can you imagine being able to think while this happens?

[botanyshitposts]

so many creatures putting SO much effort into putting ‘special’ fluids that TOTALLY aren’t water through every organ possible to clean them so they can use them again 2 seconds later. like why not simply sit on a damp substrate and pull water through your body by evaporating the extra out pores in your leaves lmaoooo

[botanyshitposts]

‘nooo nooo you don’t get it I need the big organ to run the fast firing nerves to run the machines that make the fluid go to work the big organ’. whatever chordate. lol

[shaudo-of-a-doubt]

troubleshooting time: arid area, low on damp substrate. what do?

[botanyshitposts]

good question! you could try closing your leaf pores for a while until more appears… sometimes you can also put more tubes down and feel around until you find some. water comes from the opposite direction of the sun unless it doesn’t ❤️ glad I could help!!

[transcyberism]

omg useless advice from privileged mfs from wet climates as usual... bet you don't even use CAM.

[botanyshitposts]

ok first of all i checked your profile and of COURSE its all meadows, say youre a grass who does C4 without saying youre a grass who does C4 100% speedrun challenge. sorry i wasnt blessed with a whole separate sheath of cells for increasing photosynthetic efficiency and nothing else but some of us actually have to adapt and deal with the VERY REAL AND SEVERE effects of photorespiration... literally imagine having 30 foot deep roots posting this. second of all 'plants in wet climates are privileged' you can literally live in water and use CAM??? isoetes erasure per usual on this website, neglected by an angiosperm monocot no less. why am i not surprised

[elodieunderglass]

Snorfle snarfle hnarf munch munch

[teathattast]

[bioloby]

Hey a blue pill bug what a neat coloring, hold on let me just Google something real quick...

[mindblowingscience]

Zebra finch songs alter the behaviour of their chicks' mitochondria

“The fact that acoustic cues alter mitochondrial functions is a pretty impressive finding,” says Riccardo Ton at Macquarie University in Sydney. But we don’t yet know whether these mitochondrial changes remain in the adult stage and if the changes confer a survival or reproductive advantage.

Zebra finches sing a special song to their eggs to warn them about hot weather, and these calls seem to program the hatchlings’ cells to harness energy from food without creating excessive heat. This may help their offspring adapt to warmer temperatures.

Zebra finches, which mostly live in arid areas of Australia, sing “heat calls” at temperatures above 26°C. Previous studies have found that the calls seem to reduce the growth of offspring in hot nests and increase their reproductive success as adults. A smaller body size may help young birds cope better in higher temperatures, as the result is a larger surface area to volume ratio which means they can lose heat more efficiently.

Now, for the first time, we have evidence that when zebra finch eggs are exposed to heat calls, it changes how energy-generating units inside cells, called mitochondria, work in chicks after they hatch.

Continue Reading.

[ink-pen-rat]

clown month day 20 - comet

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

hi i'm trying to buy a menorah right now and i came across this and i think you need to see him.

ITS KOSHER

inaccurate

but Kosher!

[theantiazdarcho]

The Takin is such a whimsical herbivore, like God commissioned Dr. Seuss for this one.

[qsycomplainsalot]

Good call that is indeed exactly what this looks like.

[bioloby]

May I present to you the Saiga antelope

[bioloby]

I was just looking at your tags on the prehistoric kingdom post and I would love to hear or read your thoughts on upcoming Dino games, specifically mesozoica and prehistoric kingdom specifically, of course when you have the time.

with hindsight to this message I got in 2017 I can faithfully say: dont waste your fucking time

[1010ll]

[thehauntedmansion2003]

assuming an average body weight of 8 lbs this bitch can stomp you with 40 lbs of force in less time than the blink of an eye. we stan

[pileofknives]

Secretary birds as antifascist symbol

[knight-in-dull-tinfoil-deactiva]

[byjove]

There were a lot of freshwater mussels on the 2021 US extinction list. They didn’t leave us with haunting recordings of them calling out for a mate they’d never meet, there were no drawings in vivid color. They were extremely important nevertheless and their loss is frustrating too. That’s why stream ecology and mollusks have always fascinated me. They were silent, stalwart little heroes and entire species were lost to pollution.

[byjove]

Yeah, I am bothered by extinct animals. Even this guy. They can’t all be thylacines.

[mossworm]

There are so many extinct mussels in just the southeast USA that the Center for Biological Diversity made a poster. It's outdated by at least 13 mussels that I know of but probably more by now. All of them mattered in unique ways we can no longer appreciate.

[bioloby]

a fun statistical quirk is when Monty Hall comes to your door and offers "trick or treat" you're more likely to get "treat" if you change your answer in the second round

[bioloby]

types of burds

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[cryptotheism]

If you Catholic mfers were really so interested in God's design you would develop a theological appreciation of beetle biology.

[yo-its-matt]

we really just say fuckin anything on here huh

[cryptotheism]

Charybdis would drown in the depths of your ignorance.

[bioloby]

[damazcuz]

Either you're frolicking in this field with me or you're frolicking in this field against me.

[love-is-pain-highness]