Just a fellow creature. Nothing suspicious here. snacks please.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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... And it was at that moment that I realized he was a three story tall monster from the Paleolithic era!
So you’re a termite?
“…uhhh totally.”
What do we like to eat?
“Stuff and wood and junk.”
Okay good enough.
The wild thing is: These are hundreds of mutations of several generations that happened randomly until it looked like this.
I want to know how it even started. Like, what was its equivalent of a half eye so that the termites would start feeding it?
Disguise skill level: Agent 47
"You get free food for life but you gotta wear this giant yellow foam cowboy hat and never take it off. Even to shower"
I think we have one of those in the Office of President of the United States of America
It's wild that the benefits of this outweigh the cost of making it enough to stick around.
Getting Vincent Adultman vibes.
How do you do fellow termites?
Must be desperate. Imagine the millions of dead bugs trying to get fed by termites. One after the other failing to be a convincing termite. Until finally the perfect one was born.
Hey bro, I am not a beggar bro. I am just carrying this termite to the hospital. Can you give some food for the road bro, promise I am not a beggar.
wonder if I could seduce your mom that way
You have to grow either a vodka bottle or a crack pipe puppet to seduce mine.
how about a vodkipe cottlerack puppet?
says a lot of how insects identify each other
Yes, that's what I wondered, too. In ant nest parasites they usually are visually very different from the ants, but get the pheromones right. In this example here, visual clues have to be important for the beetle to have evolved such a sophisticated mimicry.
That's what happens if you only have access to a handful of brain cells.
my mom has some of those
As evidenced by homo sapiens
Imagine if incels grew kittens on their back to lure lonely women...
That's so freaking cool
Who is this Mimi which is crying?
Evolution: I'm winning it.