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Maybe make it neurotoxic, add some nicotine? Surely they won't...
Predators: nooooo don't add nicotine! Please DO not add nicotine!
Fuck it.
Send the mushrooms. Send the fugu. Send the rotting fruits and the poisonous leafs. Send it all.
That’ll get ‘em.
And the peppers that troll the fuck out of your temperature receptors?
Only if the oysters share the load.
Alright you lost me here
Oysters (used to be?) thought of as an aphrodisiac.
Still are, but like all aphrodisiacs, it's really hard to test. A lot of sexual arousal happens in your brain, and the placebo effect is very strong.
Oh, interesting!
Meanwhile, mint's cousin catnip: "lol cats go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
It bothers me how many people think that evolutionary traits are in any way chosen or designed for a specific purpose.
Same here. Evolution doesn't work that way. It's basically the opposite. Species don't evolve to solve a problem, they evolve randomly and sometimes that solves a problem for them. Or sometimes, it pushes the species into a very narrow niche where its survival is ensured as long as the current extremely precarious situation they find themselves in doesn't change.
Species don’t evolve to solve a problem, they evolve randomly and sometimes that solves a problem for them.
Eh... they mutate randomly, and then selection acts. If there is variation that solves a problem, selection will promote that variation.
Evolution is very much not random, it is a direct consequence of variation and selection. This does not mean that they evolve to solve problems, but problems often drive evolution.
My God thank you
Selected through continued survival and reproduction. Maybe a more accurate template would be something like, "Awesome, I've evolved with [trait] which deters predators!"
Who designed the process of evolution?
(Jk)
Develop menthol, they said, it'll deter predators, they said
Where does THC fit in this gang? Does it serve a purpose for the plant.
Wait, wtf? Mouth dry! Mouth dry!
I always thought this meme said "balls cold". Am I losing it?
Well it will make them cold if you put it down there.