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(DIR) Post #Amw3wEif3GEYDPDloW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T16:20:57Z
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Many people think ants have a ribcage in their gaster but, in fact, an ant skeleton looks like this:(As drawn by Kiuuki on https://www.deviantart.com/kiuuki/art/ant-skeleton-518844863 ) Keep this in mind for Halloween!
(DIR) Post #Amw48O7ru6ogrdo29A by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T16:23:08Z
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Ants are arthropods and you can see their skeleton it's on the outside. They don't have tiny bones as much fun as that would be. I still like this drawing.
(DIR) Post #Amw4BK6PJtmzFoWR8a by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T16:23:40Z
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@futurebird huh, posterior dorsal vertebrae look very mammalian, as do the limbs ... makes me wonder if ants are related to centaurs.
(DIR) Post #Amw4EfTyHmdMQq8g6a by EverydayMoggie@sfba.social
2024-10-12T16:24:14Z
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Please tell me you're joking. Do people really not know about exoskeletons?@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Amw4Jiifg5N5v4QKyO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T16:25:11Z
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@EverydayMoggie The artist is being VERY silly. And they have done a good job taking mammal bones and trying to fit them in an ant shape.
(DIR) Post #Amw4QInOSbZjXrlryi by LightFIAR@med-mastodon.com
2024-10-12T16:26:21Z
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@futurebird Huh, it's April already?? Make no bones about it! XO XO, skeleton!
(DIR) Post #Amw4SHdjjDw2XXCOVE by EverydayMoggie@sfba.social
2024-10-12T16:26:43Z
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Oh no, I realize the drawing is a joke. But "many people think ants have a ribcage"? They don't really think that, do they?@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Amw4WgSVOWAAfl2mOm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T16:27:31Z
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@EverydayMoggie I don't think so. Though the other attempts at "Skeleton ant" I've seen seem to do it that way. Thought this was.... more ... sophisticated? or something?
(DIR) Post #Amw4fhzp31xg2xvmRE by cwicseolfor@urbanists.social
2024-10-12T16:29:08Z
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@futurebird @EverydayMoggie FAR creepier to me is imagining how ants might envision human exoskeletons. Do they assume only certain parts of us bend?This is offtopic and I cannot vouch for anything except the loveliness of the trailer, but had you seen this?? FIrst I heard of it was yesterday but thought of you:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY5r0nEd2ag
(DIR) Post #Amw6hnmKigUST5kOp6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T16:51:56Z
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@mogul The spider is somehow... cute???
(DIR) Post #Amw7BGr7gqtR312WRM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T16:57:16Z
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@mogul These don't bother me as much as the "cat skeletons" that have bone ears... or the human skeleton I saw once with... with ... *bone boobs* (because clearly someone was disturbed that you can't really tell gender all that easily from a human skeleton... just sort of guess and maybe be right.)
(DIR) Post #Amw7EmPKq0CHlxiPOS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T16:57:55Z
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@mogul If I ever see an ant.... I'm all over that. LMAO.
(DIR) Post #Amw7cDEFHdfpcKhZKq by EverydayMoggie@sfba.social
2024-10-12T17:02:05Z
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It kind of reminds me of a drawing I once saw, of Betty Boop's skeleton. It was very well done, anatomically accurate, and utterly terrifying.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Amw7y1BUkEoAdJoSki by ramsey@phpc.social
2024-10-12T17:06:02Z
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@futurebird @mogul I like to think it’s done on purpose as a joke, but who knows these days?
(DIR) Post #Amw89Gq0syMeMp8AAy by violator@mathstodon.xyz
2024-10-12T17:08:05Z
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@futurebird @mogul the three genders of skeletons:Evil - furrowed angry eye socketsSpooky - comically large and round eye socketsRealistic - oh no a skeleton ahh
(DIR) Post #Amw8AZpnk5K7Zcedai by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T17:08:21Z
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@ramsey @mogul IDK.
(DIR) Post #Amw8XH4fesEU3BQsbo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T17:12:21Z
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@mogul @ramsey Arthropod boobs.
(DIR) Post #Amw8oB6L7SGqRqH0i0 by tess@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T17:15:29Z
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@futurebird @ramsey @mogul the best part is those are - as far as I can tell - both female skeletons; looks like the one on the right just had some gender-affirming surgery lol
(DIR) Post #Amw8qV71goNl5fhals by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T17:15:57Z
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@tess @ramsey @mogul More like "gender firming surgery" VERY firm.
(DIR) Post #Amw8seztuMIqKNOnGi by ramsey@phpc.social
2024-10-12T17:16:16Z
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@futurebird @mogul When I was in high school, I knew some dudes who thought human males had penis bones. I thought they were dumb for believing this, but later in life, I learned that many mammals actually do have a penis bone (baculum), and my mind was blown.
(DIR) Post #AmwA7MsDfs5gPoNoau by ELSimms@ecoevo.social
2024-10-12T17:30:09Z
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@futurebird @ramsey @mogul I’m just glad I don’t have those chest plates. They must come as protection for the silicone implants.
(DIR) Post #AmwABbCULhyo0XshYu by piratero@mastodon.world
2024-10-12T17:30:56Z
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@futurebird @ramsey @mogul one of these is a female skeleton. You can tell best by looking at the pelvis area.
(DIR) Post #AmwClf9nJeUYc0wg9w by faassen@fosstodon.org
2024-10-12T17:59:52Z
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@futurebird@tess @ramsey @mogul No need for a chainmail bikini anymore! So she can go into battle completely nude instead of in a skimpy outfit, but it didn't work out, hence skeleton. Tragically misinformed by fantasy art.
(DIR) Post #AmwIFgN9rQ8uqAKWGW by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2024-10-12T19:01:17Z
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@futurebird @ramsey @mogul I'm sorry, ignore the bone boobs for a moment... wtf is going on with those toes?
(DIR) Post #AmwIsdwQpiJEauPI24 by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T19:08:23Z
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@futurebird @ramsey @mogul Surely if you are going to add bone elements to one skeleton to affirm gender, one is way BONER than the other…Sorry, sorry, I’ll see myself out!
(DIR) Post #AmwKlbDUlVNM1b9nou by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T19:29:26Z
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@u0421793 @tess @ramsey @mogul ......is it though?
(DIR) Post #AmwXPb9Fdc0IqV0lge by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T21:51:05Z
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@elm I think "dog sized ants" are basically "game over for all other macro fauna"It would be The Planet of the Ants in no time.
(DIR) Post #AmwrS3x1WEspq2kDzM by inquiline@assemblag.es
2024-10-13T01:34:21Z
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@mogul @futurebird Here to add a squirrel replete with ears and an acorn, from my walk just now!
(DIR) Post #AmwrUcAzF1vwZ6Ubgm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T01:35:56Z
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@inquiline @mogul At least the teeth are kind of like squirrel teeth ... and not... human looking.
(DIR) Post #AmyB5wPd3jcmKPoUvw by DabonSteed@4bear.com
2024-10-13T16:50:31Z
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@futurebird @ramsey @mogul Someone really needed us to know they're very very straight.
(DIR) Post #AnIwUKw870KaLVLfua by EVcreations1761@ecoevo.social
2024-10-23T17:15:48Z
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@futurebird This thing would hunt like wolves I swear 💀
(DIR) Post #AnIxHy7tC72M51W0w4 by qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2024-10-23T17:24:43Z
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@futurebird @elm Might depend on if you’re talking teacup poodle sized, or Alsatian sized.
(DIR) Post #AnIxKtv5I4w3u0vMFE by mcc@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T17:25:17Z
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@futurebird @elm [hoping it's ok to jump in] would that even work tho, like… energy consumption wise? like could a hive actually sustainably gather enough bio energy to support itself if you scaled the ants up to that level?
(DIR) Post #AnIxoo1vki1gK8O0Jc by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-10-23T17:30:43Z
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@futurebird @elm Makes me think of a reformulation of an old question: Would you rather fight one dog-sized ant or a hundred ant-sized dogs?
(DIR) Post #AnIyWSxFTJjVhW0zLM by gdupont@framapiaf.org
2024-10-23T17:38:36Z
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@futurebird @elm Probably cat size ants would have the same effect ;-)
(DIR) Post #AnIz2ZeI7OaPjHSSiO by mcsquank@mastodon.online
2024-10-23T17:44:24Z
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@futurebird @elm daydreaming again, i see
(DIR) Post #AnIzcGVyjfrYoLaZV2 by Just_Tired@mastodon.world
2024-10-23T17:50:50Z
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@futurebirdThis makes me want to watch the movie "Them" again. @elm
(DIR) Post #AnJHMShVSXSd99awfQ by apophis@brain.worm.pink
2024-10-23T19:38:03.346598Z
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@futurebird @elm cat-sized aphids and those little beetles that live in ant nestsand massive full-grown-hog-sized one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM8TczDI0g0
(DIR) Post #AnJHMUKXOuHCCUrd8y by apophis@brain.worm.pink
2024-10-23T19:40:20.656001Z
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@futurebird @elm on the other hand...> highly social and loyal> rely heavily on keen sense of smell> can mark scent trails> use their jaws to manipulate things> conform to square-cube lawthe perfect dog-sized ant *is* a dog
(DIR) Post #AnJJ4NfRdMoAES8WgK by apophis@brain.worm.pink
2024-10-23T21:28:02.940745Z
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@elm @futurebird exhibit F: the antenna-like elbowed ears
(DIR) Post #AnJJ5xcJSaX617QPPE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-23T21:29:09Z
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@apophis @elm This is gonna be so cute I won't mind being eaten.
(DIR) Post #AnJMphJehMp4dzCO6S by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2024-10-23T22:11:00Z
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@futurebird wait! ant's ribcage IS their gaster exoskelletons! they pump air in and out of their tracheal tubes by expanding and contracting the gaster exoskeleton segments!
(DIR) Post #AnJNgw38eM0VgfrJ9U by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2024-10-23T22:20:38Z
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@futurebird ok guys with your fantasies of wolf sized ant packs, (very cool), we are going to need some basic ant biology1) ants hunt for and feed meat only to their larvae. the adults aren't growing and don't need much protein and eat mostly carbs like nectar2) there ARE small sized cooperative hunting ant colonies i don't remember the names, check out E. O. Wilson's Insect societies (good review of the various ways insects live together) and wilson and holdobler superorganism
(DIR) Post #AnJWaG0WwoGd97Wsjo by ptoothfish@mastodon.nz
2024-10-23T23:59:32Z
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@futurebird @mcc @elm
(DIR) Post #AnJWaHVPNUYpnAz3VQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-24T00:00:10Z
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@ptoothfish @mcc @elm I mean... since you are asking?YES.
(DIR) Post #AnJXktWSzCPuYA6TBo by ptoothfish@mastodon.nz
2024-10-24T00:13:21Z
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@futurebird @mcc @elm okay i asked the wrong question for the myrmecology crowd, that's on me