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HYBRIDISM [aka HYBRIDITY]
[noun]
1. the quality or condition of being hybrid; composite; formed or composed of heterogeneous elements.
2. the production of hybrids; the offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, species, or genera, especially as produced through human manipulation for specific genetic characteristics.
Etymology: Latin hybrida, hibrida - a crossbred animal.
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that tree isn’t high enough stupid!
He’s so sleepy he doesn’t even care. <3
me as a bat
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Cordyceps is a parasitic fungus whose spores grow from inside of the host and kills it. When the host dies, the spores still continue to grow, becoming a huge plant of spores, with the host still attached to it. Some types of cordyceps are able to alter the behavior of the host before it dies.
“Some Cordyceps species are able to affect the behavior of their insect host: Cordyceps unilateralis causes ants to climb a plant and attach there before they die. This ensures the parasite’s environment is at an optimal temperature and humidity, and that maximal distribution of the spores from the fruiting body that sprouts out of the dead insect is achieved. Marks have been found on fossilised leaves which suggest this ability to modify the host’s behaviour evolved more than 48 million years ago.”
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Cicadas’ Cycles Control Their Predators
by Virginia Morell
Periodical cicadas have such a strange life cycle that some have argued they can count, and have a particular affinity for prime numbers. That’s because their broods emerge after lengthy periods of time; in North America, they appear en masse from underground every 13 or 17 years.
Now, two researchers argue that the cicadas’ cycles are timed to “engineer” the numbers of a mortal enemy—predatory birds. Contrary to what one might expect, these birds’ populations drop significantly the year cicadas emerge in all their buzzing glory, the scientists report in the current issue of The American Naturalist…
(read more: Science NOW) (photo: ARS/USDA)
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NO ONE LAUGHED IN THE THEATER EXCEPT ME I AM ANGRY
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Fili in the background like, “Do you have to trigger Uncle’s PTSD like that?”
#WHO SAID ORCS #WHO THE FUCK SAID ORCS #TAG YOUR FUCKING TRIGGERS YOU LITTLE COCKGOBLINS
kili and fili you little shits
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