Hol’up. Spiders sing.
There is a spider that hunts other spider species and uses chirps to identify its own species so they don’t attack their own kind. A sort of spider shibboleth.
https://www.insidescience.org/news/brief-spiders-sing-avoid-becoming-supper
A sort of spider shibboleth.
A shelobbeth if you will
You bastard, who are you?!
Chirp chirp
Shelobbourne!?
It’s more like beatboxing or drumming, in the case of the jumping spider.
Since there aren’t any spider scientists present, I’ll take a stab at it:
This is probably some kind of bullshit oversimplification. There was probably like one study by some professor who loves LSD and spiders at a small rural college in New Zealand who published a paper in Spider Science Journal. And it’s not singing so much as some very complex and scientific spider stuff that I won’t bore you with.
Hopefully I’m just cynical and wrong and there’s a little spider Pavarotti out there.
Wrong community to be cynical in.
That pretty much hits the nail on the head. Most of this X does “human like™️” stuff Y is anthropomorphism par excellence. Usually some form of instinctual behaviour or even simple results of basic physiological processes are compared to stuff that humans do as a high level cognitive process (singing, talking, etc.) so that it generates clicks and draws attention.
This paints a completely wrong picture of animal (or even plant) behaviour, spreads misinformation and overshadows the actually interesting scientific discoveries.You’re FUN!
Nice job invoking Betteridge’s Law.
It’s like the frog from Looney Tunes.
Tomato plants in distress apparently make sounds too.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-31/plants-talk-die-of-thirst-popping-sound/102167028
To be honest, this is like saying that cars tires scream in pain during an accident. It’s highly unlikely to be a “voluntary” sound emission and not just a result of their physiology of being literally a bunch of tiny water tubes drying up.
That makes the fact a possum ravaged mine a touch more horrifying.
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I was sure it was going to be this: https://youtu.be/CmJYZ1NIn1Y?si=2pxasfSsJYaLCGuo
And now I want to go around leaving weels for mice to run in.
I’m not sure about the one about humans. Some will, absolutely. However many will look the other way (and watch their stock ticker go brrr).
Disappointing, isn’t it?
I always had a rather negative view of the world. At least as long as i remember. I never saw it as a bad thing, and it never made me a bitter and negative person. There is a lot of war and shit going on right now, which is obviously bad and daunting. The only time i ever felt like we are not gonna make it as a species was the other day when i saw how they are building that stupid ass line in saudi arabia. I don’t know, something about seeing the engery, manpower and materials throwing at this beyond stupid thing made me think of the end of the world. No more ice for Antarctica, but we are building this shit over here.
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It’s nice to think this way but it’s an oversimplification. The trees are trying to strangle and poison each other The mice will eat each other’s babies etc. Lol
Sure, but there is good in the world, even if it seems horribly fucked up no matter where you look.
Oh yeah. I’m not intending to imply only shitty things ever happen for sure. There are many beautiful tiny shiny moments of good. The bad just serves to make them even more beautiful
… The humans will procreate, divide into groups and eventually start s war
Wait there’s drama too?
It’s actually really crazy how little we know. Pretty much every discipline has questions that are answered with “we don’t know”. When it comes to knowledge we have barely scratched the surface.
We don’t know what we don’t know and that’s okay. Actually I think it’s exciting, there are new understandings of the things around us that are just waiting to be discovered. It can certainly be scary too, being the first one to explore a new field alone and in the dark.
Personally, I don’t find it scary at all. It’s miraculous and inspiring!
And it’ll all be burned in 90 years 😋
