Nature-inspired memes

[austin_ajit]

from : https://cheezburger.com/39403525/20-nature-memes-to-help-you-touch-some-grass

[krehnah]

[fmiudo]

[krehnah]

[insectilluminatigetshrekt]

Mildly disagree, vascular plants get way more attention than most non-vertebrate animals (still right about fungi though)

[insectilluminatigetshrekt]

[AdamWargon]

I was inspired by:

@chuuuuung

For me, the major frustrations with the CNC weren’t so much outright malicious activity, but rather the floods of observations and CV misidentifications in taxa where there’s only a handful of trustworthy identifiers. Trying to keep up with and correct “CV take the wheel” IDs in terms of both initial IDs and people either blind-agreeing or semi-randomly picking CV suggestions has absolutely burned me out over the past couple of weeks.

[professor_porcupine]

Why does Cucumis sativus have such odd Chromosome Numbers?

[professor_porcupine]

Alright, now which taxonomist had the bright idea to call this plant Viburnum bitchiuense .

I feel like Taxonomy has easter eggs all over like this.

[professor_porcupine]

Why was the plant named black eyed susan?

[mahonia_pumila]

The face I make when I’m across the lab watching an undergrad performing a procedure independently for the first time.

[whaichi]

Context –

Image 1: In the movie Wayne’s World, the titular character says “A sphincter says what?” to confuse someone so that they say “What?” – implying that they’re a sphincter and embarrassing themselves. A sphincter, for those unfamiliar, is “a ring-shaped muscle that relaxes or tightens to open or close a passage or opening in the body.” with the anus a common example.

Image 2: Pearlfish are marine fish (Carapidae) that frequently live inside invertebrate hosts, including sea cucumbers. There have been a few documentary-type videos released highlighting pearlfish entering, exiting, and resting with their heads outside of a sea cucumber’s anus.

Image 3: The sea urchin crab (Echinoecus pentagonus) is a species of crab found across the Indian and Pacific Oceans that makes its home in the anus of sea urchins. This species was featured as an iNaturalist Observation of the Week in 2016, which is how I learned about it.

[mikeschinlaub]

This is the future. In 3025 we’re all just going to be living in the buttholes of larger creatures.

[austin_ajit]

We will be the crab.

[vreinkymov]

Really happy this wasn’t for Dipterostemon capitatus, which has an equally confusing common name of unknown origin.

[vreinkymov]

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[lid_d]

[JaneBP]

This happens because the mother of the cat is not a hunter. Cats have an instinct to pounce and capture and you see them practicing on their littermates. They have no instinct to deliver the killing bite (because they would kill all their littermates). A mother cat that is an experienced hunter will teach the kittens to deliver the killing bite before eating the animal (as they would in the wild). Cats that paw at small creatures without swiftly killing them had a mother that did not teach them the killing bite.

[JaneBP]

Nice poster!