The problem is they they’re just designed to eat and get chonky. If they had invested in cool ninja combat during evolution, scientists believe they would be not only more likely to survive, but be a lot cooler.
sometimes i wonder if life is sort of designed to be like that though. not in a strictly intentional intelligent way but also not in a fully accidental coincidental way.
somebody has to turn plant into food right? without them and homies like them our food system don’t work.
It’s designed that way in the same way as a hole was designed for a puddle*. The caterpillars are evolutionarily successful because of a “spray and pray” strategy, and other species are successful because of the easy food.
Biology is an arms race, in a sense: so everything is interlinked, and affected by everything else, even if only by distant, myriad links in an unbroken web of chains. It’s the reason a lot of biologists like myself are anxious about the ecological destruction that’s been unfolding for so long. Life finds a way in the long term, but short term…it sucks to be alive when many of the things you depend on aren’t.
*This metaphor thanks to Douglas Adams
I thought hotdogs were nature’s hotdogs.
- tygerprints ( @tygerprints@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Nature’s 100 percent unnatural hotdogs. MMMMMM You can really taste the hog anus.
This could get extremely philosophical fast. If humanity is part of nature, and we make hotdogs, then hotdogs are part of nature.
- tygerprints ( @tygerprints@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Hot dogs are satan’s boner on a bun. (!) MMMM mmm, that’s good boner meat.
Alien species discovers earth … “Holy shit Kang! These little bipeds are delicious! And all you have to do is support whatever community or belief they follow and they’ll go anywhere you tell them”
- tygerprints ( @tygerprints@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Delicious and spectacularly dumb. What did they think we meant when we said our books are about serving man.
- tygerprints ( @tygerprints@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
But there’s still more space dust on this book. It’s actually “how to cook for humans.” Oh wait - no, it’s “how to cook Forty humans.”
- tygerprints ( @tygerprints@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Pretty sure they have 100 percent mortality rate as most animals do. There are some species of jellyfish that technically are immortal (capable of immortality anyway) - they revert back to a polyp stage and start life over again without dying. But every other animal species, like us humans, does have to bow down to the grim reaper at some point.
“Caterpillar” is not a species. It’s a stage of some animals’ life cycle. It means 99% of catepillars die before they become butterflies or moths or whatever