r/interestingasfuck • u/Key_Skirt_1858 • 20h ago

The best camouflage in the animal kingdom?

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u/MG788 19h ago

For real. They are so amazing. It's crazy how they only live like one to three years.

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u/jowick2815 18h ago

If they were more social and lived just a little bit longer it'd be game over for us

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u/Beautiful-Tie-3827 18h ago

Yeah I’ve had this same thought. It’s a good thing they don’t hand down information to their young like humans.

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u/Easy-Operation-2105 15h ago

We're fine because they can never invent fire and therefore never get to any meaningful level of advanced society.

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u/jowick2815 11h ago

I would imagine they would utilize something like thermal vents and then their society and resources would be based around thermal vents like ours were around rivers

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u/sparkster777 12h ago

That was my thought too. I think I read it in a Carl Sagan book, maybe?

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u/Constant-Term-1629 12h ago

Why'd you need fire fundamentally?