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  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzMother
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    3 months ago

    Kangaroos form two sorts of groups

    1. Like most herbivores, they have one male and many females in a mob (kangaroo equivalent to a herd)
    2. Males outside that mob form loose groups for defence and within that they fight to establish dominance and the top roo may challenge the male lead of a mob to take it over



  • I used to do that in the swimming pool (I have always lived far inland) it’s often called dangerous on the mistaken belief that it’s like shallow water drowning where someone hyperventilates to swim underwater longer; since those people have blown off so much CO2 they don’t get a signal to breathe and suffocate.

    Our method doesn’t involve hyperventilation, and wow does the need to breathe get strong



  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzFossils on Fossils
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    Evolution isn’t aimed. A T-Rex needs to be good enough to hunt enough food.

    Our ancient ancestors smashed the skulls of animals killed by African predators to eat the brains, smashed bones to eat the marrow.

    Later as our ancestors became bigger and stronger they hunted and needed to communicate with each other to effectively track and take down an animal. Maybe they needed twenty words. Chickens have three words (or cluck patterns)

    At the same time women collected stuff and needed to share how to identify this from that with younger women. They might have needed a hundred words.

    Then those who could talk better were more attractive to the other sex than those who couldn’t (even now being well spoken is attractive) then a few millions of years later we’re making stone knives, hammers, axes; then ten minutes later aeroplanes and machine guns

    In short: we had it hard enough we needed to share information. We later found communication sexy. T-Rex had no such trouble. We seem to be the only animal that solved “scavenging is dangerous” and “hunting is hard” with talking to each other rather than by getting bigger and getting claws or vicious teeth

    I understand we selected for tall by fighting humans










  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzDunning-Kruger
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    3 months ago

    One of my mates goes to a chiro. The rest of us detail for him how our problems were helped by physios and they were fixed, and stayed fixed, while he needs to see a chiro every 3 months for just exactly the same problems

    He describes himself as an idiot, and I believe him. He still goes to a chiro.

    Australia has high respect for chiropractic because the King likes them, and when he was a prince he was pretty influential too. No idea why it would be popular outside the Commonwealth


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