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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

No different to most pop music.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And allergies are because your nose is full of tree jizz

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

~~Nah its the whole baby, not jizz~~

It is jizz

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

You're thinking of seeds.

Pollen is only the male half of the genetic material required for sexual plant reproductin, and is the step before plants produce fruit and seeds.

Hence, jizz.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's kind of both

The pollen isn't the jizz but it produces the jizz

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

You're so right that ones on me, idk why I said that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

seeing people admit their mistakes online is one of the rarest and most beautiful sights in nature

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Yes, thank you for your humility, Shark Fucker 420.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

when ya wank, do you shoot 3kg naked shitting humans?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

It's the only way I can get off.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I can't go out in summer cause I constantly have to say no homo and people keep looking at me all weird

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

TIL this waterfalls want to get nasty

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That’s why they’re so wet.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Yes and no. A lot of the sounds are mating calls, but there's so much more being communicated.

Some sounds are warnings, like when squirrels see a cat and start to chirp. If you watch them, you'll see them run up a tree and pause upside down on the trunk, chirping an alert to others. Other squirrels in the area will repeat the behavior and amplify the "message" until the threat (the neighborhood cat) goes away.

Some sounds are intended to trick others. Blue jays mimic the sounds made by birds of prey in order to scare other birds away from their feeding grounds. It works really well - I've seen a jay clear a whole flock of starlings from my yard before. He then swooped down and plucked a bunch of worms and bugs from the soil.

There's probably more, but these are just examples I've observed while hanging out on my porch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Jays in my area well fly around making eagle calls convincing enough to fool plenty humans (myself included). Multiple times I've heard that unique shriek and searched the sky for a big bird only to see a cheeky Blue Jay hopping around in a tree 🀣

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

honestly i'd expect most sounds to not be mating sounds unless it's specifically a time of year where most of the animals there are in mating season

i think we humans tend to forget that it's not very normal to just always be looking to bang, for most animals (and plants even) it's done very enthusiastically at specific times.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Birds are generally saying one of two things: "Fuck you," or "Fuck me."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Enjoy it before Zuck sucks all that water out to cool the computers that bring you Italian brainrot animals and Turbodong 2000 videos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Italian brainrot animals ?? That sounds funny i wanna know what it is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It was silly and goofy at first but quickly became tiresome. I just wonder if the amount of computing power and resources we throw at such frivolities are worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Turbodong 2000

They’re releasing a retro version? Will it say cool catch phrases from a quarter century ago?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

the sound of millions of animals desperately trying to get laid

And yet when I do it, I'm a pervert and asked to leave the park.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You need to dress more flamboyantly. Like a peacock.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Tehehe, "cock"!

I'll show myself out, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

Some are also like "Fuck off, this is my tree!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Yeah, still WAY better than listening to traffic and incessant car noise?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That just makes it all the more beautiful, to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

and it makes a lot of sense when one thinks of clear cutting in terms of puritanism.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Sometimes the sound is the animals actually getting laid.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This meme implies that birds and insects are not animals

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

It's also just wrong, because quite a lot of mammals and birds use sound for intraspecies communication (a la human language), echolocation is fairly common, feeding and hunting often generate sound... Sound production for mating purposes is a hefty chunk, but the joke here is pretty misleading.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

They should just get tinder accounts and stfu.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

If you really boil it down, all that any species ever does is in some way an attempt to propagate its genes. We aren't any different either. The artistic spark that got Davinci to paint the Mona Lisa was there due to such behaviour being an evolutionarily beneficial trait (being good at art increases the social standing of a person and thus increases their chances of reproduction). I don't want to sound cynical about this because I'm not. That's just life. It really doesn't matter. The painting is still beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I don't try to propagate my genes ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps not with conscious intent. I suppose even staying alive and contributing to a society still means that you help your relatives pass their genes on. Even gay penguins do this when they adopt an orphaned egg.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't even live near any of my relatives, and anyone I would help would be about as related to me as any other human (so, not related). Perhaps in another time period I would've helped my tribe, but that is not the society I live in today.

Not that it really matters here, because I have no obligation to help genes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Every other human around you has almost the same genes as you. Just being kind to others is already a tiny contribution to the survival of the species and the genes we share. Pretty sure one would have to be actively suicidial or a Bond villain in order to not to help the genes that survive on with every breath anybody ever takes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's where I've always been confused. Every living being wants to propogate their species through innate biological urges and behaviors, whether they realize it or not. Obviously humans recognize these behaviors and are able to choose whether or not to actually have children or to simply act on these urges without procreating (condoms, birth control, etc.). But the innate biological inclinations are still there.

It's odd for me because I've never had these urges or inclinations for sex. Sometimes it makes me feel like I'm not human or something. Because every living being seems to experience this. Even when I discovered the concept of asexuality, I found that a very significant number of these individuals either oddly still had a sex drive or they were sexually traumatized in some way which blocked it. I have never had a sex drive and was never sexually traumatized. I was not a "late bloomer", as I'm in my 30s with the same lack of normal human feelings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not limited to direct reproduction of one's own genes. Keep in mind that we live in a society. Contributing to that society means helping others of our species (with almost the same genes) pass their genes on. Just being kind to others is already great. You're valid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Thank you very much

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Well, big same, ya know?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Outside of mating season, birds definitely do sing just for fun.

And even in mating season, I wonder if birds really consciously try to "get laid" or if they just sing, because it feels like the right thing to do in the moment and then getting laid happens. I mean, some start singing very young. How would they know what it's for the first time? Not all birds are as smart as crows.

This review paper looks at the motivation for both kinds of singing: intrinsically motivated (just for fun, all year round) and singing that attracts mates. In the latter, it's unclear, what triggers the motivation. The author supposes, it might be a combination of socially reinforced behavior and the vicinity of a mate, rather then the act of copulation, that triggers the reward.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Or trying to kill each other at lunch time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

The hills! They’re alive!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago
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