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(DIR) Post #AqYlBQT0ph6oXLGxiy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T02:00:46Z
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Did you know that king cobras build nests and guard them? They were originally in the genus "hamadryas" which people say "hammerdryad" because when guarding their nests they are like a dryad guarding her tree. But now they are named for how they like to eat other snakes so much.THIS is where Alastair Reynolds got the name for his exotic alien monster from!Anyway great new video from out-of-place-zoologist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwQwveDMAmA
(DIR) Post #AqYlUdZwJ9JyhifoNE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T02:04:19Z
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Snakes are so cute.
(DIR) Post #AqYm6MEBGai1tZTxh2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T02:11:08Z
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In the video he askes why a snake might eat other snakes. One good reason is that a snake is the perfectly shaped food for a snake if the snake wants to eat a lot and grow very large.
(DIR) Post #AqYmLfeDLWPeT7xeWe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T02:13:53Z
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@northernlights The only living snake I get to see are the Storeria dekayi who live in the park across the street. It's the only snake that live in NYC where there are dense apartments. (and then still only in the parks with underground streams)There are garter snakes in some of the outer regions too.
(DIR) Post #AqYmWGRrNPuNV4EYz2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T02:15:47Z
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@cinebox There is something funny about them being one of the few snakes that guard their eggs "you know someone might eat these!"little takes one to know one in that I think.
(DIR) Post #AqYpRtuFXshsI77k9Y by babelcarp@social.tchncs.de
2025-01-29T02:48:34Z
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@futurebird Now we get a whole year’s worth of them. 蛇年快乐！
(DIR) Post #AqYqCnDaEISb9tWjNg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T02:57:03Z
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@stuartyeates @northernlights Oh wow, a predatory snail!
(DIR) Post #AqYrHqewxhMrEZImfo by jericevans@mastodon.online
2025-01-29T03:09:08Z
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@futurebird we have a fair number of these 😳 @northernlights
(DIR) Post #AqYrvDWVt81DRH80v2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T03:16:21Z
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@jericevans @northernlights This is a beautiful snake to be "over there" they aren't very aggressive are they?
(DIR) Post #AqYsvDrgiazgS6bCbY by jericevans@mastodon.online
2025-01-29T03:27:28Z
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@futurebird they're pretty timid, not aggressive at all. I think they're beautiful, but they make me nervous. And my granddaughter found one recently so we spent some time memorizing "Red touches yellow, kills a fellow. Red touches black, venom lack".@northernlights
(DIR) Post #AqZ2ycSajHfP8x7Q5g by mightyspaceman@aus.social
2025-01-29T05:20:09Z
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@futurebird saw one today
(DIR) Post #AqZTYNBDcF34zBha0u by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T09:33:03Z
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@stuartyeates @northernlights @futurebird snails: licking things to death since the early Cambrian, 538 million years ago. It's not the fastest way to die.
(DIR) Post #AqZTYO4AJx07jbPSeu by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T10:07:39Z
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@stuartyeates @northernlights @futurebird there are even some trace fossils from the Ediacaran which have been argued to be made with a radula. But, the animal argued to have made the traces isn't confidently known to have a radula, and there's some disagreement about whether it was even a mollusc, and whether it made the traces associated with it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberella#Classification
(DIR) Post #AqZTl4yMcaywHVkRNY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T10:20:18Z
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@llewelly @stuartyeates @northernlights "Kimberella" sounds like a song from the 70s about a girl who changes your life and breaks your heart (and licks you to death with her radula?)Oh Kimberella, it's always been youKimberella, I don't know what I can doYou got me shiftingwater column driftingbut you can't even chew
(DIR) Post #AqZTumr4pwqozEy7bE by preferred@expressional.social
2025-01-29T10:22:02Z
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@futurebird @llewelly @stuartyeates @northernlights lol 💝
(DIR) Post #AqZVpXsPIbsezZDePg by titaniumbiscuit@nerdculture.de
2025-01-29T10:43:27Z
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@futurebird That sounds like lyrics by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. #ktlw @llewelly @stuartyeates @northernlights
(DIR) Post #AqZYPsr2yqYqO62Qwy by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T11:12:29Z
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@futurebird I loved this video.one of the hosts of the podcast herphighlights (Ben Marshall) is involved in research on king cobras, and they've done a few episodes about King Cobras:https://herphighlights.podbean.com/e/212-king-cobra-species-split/https://herphighlights.podbean.com/e/045-king-among-cobras/https://herphighlights.podbean.com/e/137-switzerland-s-frog-enaissance/#snakes#reptiles#cobra#kingCobra
(DIR) Post #AqZYWIQCprZjQ6XcMy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T11:13:38Z
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Alastair Reynolds has a number of characters obsessed with exotic pets. He makes fun of men who try to project masculinity by keeping a creature that can kill them. In his stories the hammerdryad is a huge deadly monster. The more you learn about it the more batshit keeping one as a pet sounds. Knowing it's an old name for cobras makes so much sense.These are lovely snakes, majestic, but almost no one should keep them as pets. It's just a bad idea unless you are an expert doing research.
(DIR) Post #AqZYZ851k3D6DNzBnE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T11:13:57Z
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But there will always be those kind of men who want to make people gasp ... or think they are impressive by having such pets. I don't really get it. People gasp about my ants all the time, and my ants can't even do anything. I spend all my energy helping people to calm down and NOT think the ants will eat them, bite them or escape and take over the world. (the last one there is more dicey.)
(DIR) Post #AqZYeeArqN5nCXLgNU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T11:15:07Z
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@llewelly Isn't it nice when someone talks about a dangerous animal in a ... normal calm reasonable way?So many videos on this kind of snake are kind of disrespectful and goofy.
(DIR) Post #AqZYxah30gP5uJQxWq by mattjohns@mastodon.social
2025-01-29T11:18:32Z
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@futurebird #PhaseIV 😉
(DIR) Post #AqZZBaTwanflJ1ykc4 by randulo@mastodon.social
2025-01-29T11:21:01Z
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@futurebird How do you feel about tarantulas?
(DIR) Post #AqZZoilBkSxAH2hmIy by swope@mstdn.plus
2025-01-29T11:28:07Z
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@futurebird Ants did take over the world. Any they've been in control of the world so long that they don't feel the need to prove it loudly.
(DIR) Post #AqZaAmYOKBYgPVEsHg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T11:32:10Z
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@randulo They can make lovely pets. Though if I were to keep a spider I might keep a jumping spider or even a black widow.If you want a "dangerous pet" black widows are a good fit. There are many guides for keeping them safely. My understanding is this isn't as much the case with a king cobra. And I wonder if you could keep a large snake as happy in a tank as a spider. The males will want to wander, the females want to make nests IDK. IMO they belong in the wild.
(DIR) Post #AqZbaZ80xjawFtlALg by mavu@mastodon.social
2025-01-29T11:48:02Z
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@futurebird I've read that book and both, the fact that "men who try to project masculinity by keeping a creature that can kill them." As well as that he makes fun of it in the book went completely over my head. I'm probably not alone in that this is exactly the kind of stuff my autism makes me oblivious to.When i read this, my brain goes "man keeps dangerous pet. Weird, but whatever" all other subtext just doesn't reach me. Needless to say, I didn't have great marks in language studies :)
(DIR) Post #AqZcXdvalF9GE77T2O by rayhindle@mastodon.social
2025-01-29T11:58:41Z
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@futurebird The ants are more likely to inherit the world {than escape and takeover} when the hoomons wipe themselves out! And it is 89 seconds to midnight for us, doing so at present. Best of luck to the Formicidae! Do you have the problem that the spell checker keeps wanting to change Formicidae to Formica?
(DIR) Post #AqZcpf1ZQIdGq7VVw0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T12:01:58Z
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@mavu Did you read the story about Tanner Mirabel* ? His boss, Cahuella is exactly like many annoying guys I've met since as an antkeeper I get to meet others who keep "exotic pets" -- Reynolds must know such people personally. He captures something about them perfectly. It can be hard to pick up on the less than flattering portrayal of Cahuella as our narrator, Tanner, admires him deeply for reasons even he can't fully understand. *saying more about who he is would be a major spoiler IMO
(DIR) Post #AqZdhOHLtlTiXfVeUa by randulo@mastodon.social
2025-01-29T12:11:38Z
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@futurebird In parts of southern California, there are tarantulas. One morning my brother walked out of his bedroom and towrds the bathroom he came up to a tarantula. THey both stared at each other for a minute, then, just kind of passed on in opposite directions.Here's a funny scene from The Larry Sanders SHowhttps://youtu.be/8HelVSXR0oc?si=bgjQd8x7QdVhPqzw&t=1284
(DIR) Post #AqZdya0XXnQdqDqHHk by PizzaDemon@mastodon.online
2025-01-29T12:14:44Z
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@futurebird I do that with the microfauna in my kitchen and bathroom
(DIR) Post #AqZeD9MOtuShXW0zE8 by mavu@mastodon.social
2025-01-29T12:17:23Z
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@futurebird he is definirely a very good writer of (flawed?) characters.Not sure if he make them up or meets a lot of.. Interesting... People.I love his books for the atmosphere he creates.And the language. I only rarely still have to look up words in English, but he sure likes obscure words.(I hope in not mixing him up with some other author)
(DIR) Post #AqZejP7JqwlNfuLBOC by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-01-29T12:23:10Z
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@futurebird Um...
(DIR) Post #AqZenXEbc8hc0dicHw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T12:24:01Z
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@guyjantic what? is there a problem?
(DIR) Post #AqZfXUtCfL0E3Zclbk by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-01-29T12:32:17Z
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@futurebird No, no. It's fine. No problems. Everything is OK.*breathes into bag*
(DIR) Post #AqZfgXklO4aVXqzRq4 by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T12:33:57Z
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@futurebird when I was a teen in the western USA there was enormous pressure on young men to be enthusiastic about dangerous things. skiing, guns, motorbikes, fast cars, BASE jumping, etc, etc, the list went on and on. For most of these things, my interest was limited to reading about them; I didn't want to get involved, or see movies about them, or whatever. And for practically everyone, especially older adults, who were the major source of the pressure, that wasn't enough.
(DIR) Post #AqZhyzH20Oco1F0PgW by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
2025-01-29T12:59:40Z
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@futurebird I spend all my energy helping people to calm down and NOT think the ants will eat them, bite them or escape and take over the world. (the last one there is more dicey.)I've read Children of Time, I'm firmly on the side of the spiders here.
(DIR) Post #AqZjobctGrX1grPKi0 by faassen@fosstodon.org
2025-01-29T13:20:11Z
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@futurebird"Don't worry, these ants aren't going to take over the world!" sounds like "Don't worry, he doesn't bite!"
(DIR) Post #AqZoJkKBNf5FSelGrY by NatureMC@mastodon.online
2025-01-29T14:10:38Z
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@futurebird Must be a domination thing of these nature-alienated guys. I imagine that one day ants will farm fungi that make these guys entirely will-less. 😁 #wishfulFiction
(DIR) Post #Aqa7bybEwWrq4n98Gu by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-01-29T17:46:44Z
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@futurebird @cinebox most pythons also guard their eggs, though they don't usually build a big fancy nest for them; instead they find an appropriate place, often a burrow dug by some other animal.also, in the last 15 years , research has shown social behavior in snakes is much more widespread and complex than previously thought, and it's possible something similar could happen with egg guarding.
(DIR) Post #AqaRJ77x0mae6ajIRM by matera@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-01-29T21:27:05Z
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@futurebird Undeed. And we should eat billionaires because threy're shaped like us - even though they are very different inside (and don't taste like chicken). *sharpens knife* Mmm, we get big and strong.