Why does Joe have chevrons on his forehead? They change throughout the video. They're Probably dmt deposits navigating from one side of his brain, to the other.
Hmmm. I haven't crunched the numbers, but I don't think it's true that the majority of species are parasitic. A very large number, and even a significant proportion are. It also depends partly on how we define it. A lot of species are symbiotic – which means they rely almost entirely on another organism but they're not parasitic as such, unless their presence is harmful to the 'host' organism.
E.g. our gut bacteria are mostly symbiotic, and beneficial. Many very small insects are symbiotic and largely harmless. Even some types of lice or mites, although 'gross' to think about, do us no real harm. Then of course there are also brain-eating amoebas, which are definitely nasty little abominations which shouldn't really exist… God was careless there. 🙂
1.Tarantula hawk wasp – they sting the tarantula, lay the eggs in the tarantula and then the offs pring feeds off the tarantula while somehow avoiding its organs; why would God make this happen? 2.Venalecia?? or corpse flower (giant flower) – parasitic, lives off another species of vine; smells like rotting meat 3."Something" Infanticeda?? (cousin to Venalicia??) 4.Duvalindra (Duvalia?) – flower looks and smells like meat to attract flies; the hotter it gets the more it smells 5.Whitesloanea crassa – looks and smells like butthole, hairs move 6.Stapelia (biggest one) 7.Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus – infects ants; a stock grows out of the ant's head with a fruiting body full of spores; it can control the mind of the ant (it somehow makes the infected ant bite the underside vein of a plant leaf, stay there and die); if other ants realize one of the ants are infected they'll take it away from the colony 8.Grasshopper infected by aquatic worm (parasitic Nematomorph hairworm (Spinochordodes tellinii)) gets grasshopper to commit suicide to give birth to worm; the worm convinces the grasshopper to drown in a puddle 9.Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic isopod – eats the fishes tongue and then essentially becomes the tongue 10. Deepstaria jellyfish – looks like a lava lamp 11. Dragonfish create a red light source (bioluminescence) because others can't see with the red light 12.Copepod lives inside the deep staria jellyfish 13.Octopus, Blanket Octopus – incredible looking, looks like a long cape behind it 14.Chickens, eagles, bald eagles, seagulls 🙂 15.Octopuses can't really feel pain, they can let go of one of their arms to the female; they can cannibalize themselves; the female will occasionally pretend they want sex and then eat the male octopus 16.Cuttlefish pretends to be female to get laid
No one gonna talk about the Washington Post comment at the end?
"Why would God make that"
Why does Joe have chevrons on his forehead? They change throughout the video. They're Probably dmt deposits navigating from one side of his brain, to the other.
Hmmm. I haven't crunched the numbers, but I don't think it's true that the majority of species are parasitic. A very large number, and even a significant proportion are. It also depends partly on how we define it. A lot of species are symbiotic – which means they rely almost entirely on another organism but they're not parasitic as such, unless their presence is harmful to the 'host' organism.
E.g. our gut bacteria are mostly symbiotic, and beneficial. Many very small insects are symbiotic and largely harmless. Even some types of lice or mites, although 'gross' to think about, do us no real harm. Then of course there are also brain-eating amoebas, which are definitely nasty little abominations which shouldn't really exist… God was careless there. 🙂
1.Tarantula hawk wasp – they sting the tarantula, lay the eggs in the tarantula and then the offs pring feeds off the tarantula while somehow avoiding its organs; why would God make this happen?
2.Venalecia?? or corpse flower (giant flower) – parasitic, lives off another species of vine; smells like rotting meat
3."Something" Infanticeda?? (cousin to Venalicia??)
4.Duvalindra (Duvalia?) – flower looks and smells like meat to attract flies; the hotter it gets the more it smells
5.Whitesloanea crassa – looks and smells like butthole, hairs move
6.Stapelia (biggest one)
7.Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus – infects ants; a stock grows out of the ant's head with a fruiting body full of spores; it can control the mind of the ant (it somehow makes the infected ant bite the underside vein of a plant leaf, stay there and die); if other ants realize one of the ants are infected they'll take it away from the colony
8.Grasshopper infected by aquatic worm (parasitic Nematomorph hairworm (Spinochordodes tellinii)) gets grasshopper to commit suicide to give birth to worm; the worm convinces the grasshopper to drown in a puddle
9.Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic isopod – eats the fishes tongue and then essentially becomes the tongue
10. Deepstaria jellyfish – looks like a lava lamp
11. Dragonfish create a red light source (bioluminescence) because others can't see with the red light
12.Copepod lives inside the deep staria jellyfish
13.Octopus, Blanket Octopus – incredible looking, looks like a long cape behind it
14.Chickens, eagles, bald eagles, seagulls 🙂
15.Octopuses can't really feel pain, they can let go of one of their arms to the female; they can cannibalize themselves; the female will occasionally pretend they want sex and then eat the male octopus
16.Cuttlefish pretends to be female to get laid