• Jo Miran
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    4811 months ago

    Hello my baby!

    Hello my honey!

    Hello my ragtime gal!

  • BigAssFan
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    3611 months ago

    Can’t imagine that extraterrestrial aliens would be more weird than what is population our oceans.

  • @15liam20
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    1911 months ago

    I don’t know how it’s possible to feel more protected when you’re entirely made out of spikes, but OK.

    • @ickplantOP
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      2811 months ago

      Apparently this is what they look like in the wild when they use rocks:

      • kase
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        711 months ago

        They’re so cute! :D

    • brianorca
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      711 months ago

      Some fish are good at pulling off individual spikes one at a time.

  • @blahsay
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    1211 months ago

    This sounds fake but I’d love it to be true!

    • FuglyDuck
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      It’s true. Urchins do in fact use things like shells as hats.

      And some have been dropping hat shaped prints on them for pics.

      • @Zahille7
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        -111 months ago

        I just love (/s) how they 3D printed the hats with plastic. Give them some more plastic why don’t you?

        • FuglyDuck
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          311 months ago

          It’s an aquarium. The plastic was probably removed after a while

  • @[email protected]
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    -711 months ago

    This is like how corporations treat people on given issues

    Instead of lowering emissions, let’s throw our plastic in the ocean

    Instead of cutting off funding to anti-gay candidates, let’s sell rainbow clothing

    • @wookiepedia
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      1011 months ago

      Sorry to rain on your parade, but that’s in a reef tank, dude. The lighting is quite specific to man made lights.

      Not to say that keeping a reef tank is the most ecologically responsible thing to do, but…

      • @[email protected]
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        I wasn’t claiming these hats were in the ocean

        It’s that the urchins (like people) are trying to protect themselves but the scientists (corporations) are just gaslighting them for their amusement

        • @knightry
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          1211 months ago

          This has got to be the strangest hill I’ve ever seen anyone take a stand on.

              • @[email protected]
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                -111 months ago

                You don’t think the hats were for the amusement of people

                The post itself says it’s for protection

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                  They’re in a tank. They literally do not need protection. They also do not care. The hats fill their microbrain compulsions just fine. They don’t need your absurd “hey, aren’t we all just urchins in hats!?” train of thought.

                  They’re probably living their best lives. They’re not being raised for food, they’re not living in a wild ocean… they’re wearing dapper hats instead of the dead husks of their seaborn brethren.

                  You could take a lesson from those urchins.