• @SirSamuel
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    3511 months ago

    Soooo, technical science question here, super high level, get ready for some Latin and Greek and $14 words:

    Does it’s little face flaps get all flippy flappy because it’s excited/hungry? foraging response? breathing? Those flaps were really flipping and I’m just curious

    • @Burninator05
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      211 months ago

      How much flip could a flippy flappy flap if a flippy flappy could flappy flippy?

      If this video is anything to go by, quite a lot.

  • @Zibobwa
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    1611 months ago

    That looks like a slow, pain filled, and horrible way to go.

    • @someguy3
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      1911 months ago

      Iirc clams don’t even have a nervous system. They and bivalves are sometimes described as sea vegetables.

    • @june
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      311 months ago

      That’s the entirety of sea life, I do believe.

  • @ItsMeSpez
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    811 months ago

    This is not entirely unlike how HUMANS eat bloody CRABS.

  • @Blue_Morpho
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    711 months ago

    Without ever being taught, the crab identfied that it’s food, not a rock, investigates for an opening, then uses leverage to open the clam.

    Makes me wonder how much I actually think when it’s really just instinct.

  • @[email protected]
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    511 months ago

    This reminds me of the original time machine novel。 Every single crab on earth reminds me of the time machine novel.

    • Colonel Panic
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      411 months ago

      It’s been a long time since I read it.

      The part at the end of time where all that remains is a dying crab on a desolate beach?

      I don’t remember the details, but the feelings and emotions that end of time nothingness and death of all things left is still with me… It is sad and lonely and depressing and empty feeling. Same with thinking about the eventual “Heat Death of the Universe”.

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        He escapes to the future, it looks dead and cold, and then he hears a weird skittering or chittering or something and turns around to be confronted by giant murder crabs.

        I should read that chapter again. What a great book

  • @TheControlled
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    211 months ago

    What’s the big deal? He’s just musseling in there.

  • @danc4498
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    111 months ago

    Like the world’s slowest shredder.