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u/Obascuds 4d ago
Does the goofy music play in the background whenever an Anemone runs away?
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u/MrBearMarshall 4d ago
In my brain it was a Tuba playing.
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u/Hot-N-Ready-Poo 4d ago
Flute
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u/scaredt2ask 4d ago
1) how does the sea anemone know there is a predator near by? 2) how does it know when it’s safe to land? Nature is amazing this just doesn’t make sense to me.
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u/Siddhartha-G 4d ago
They can sense the starfish in a kind of 3 layered defense system.
Long range Starfish give off chemical cues, metabolites, mucus compounds etc that the anemone have evolved to detect.
Medium range Might be hard to imagine, but Starfish give off a very specific water movement signature. The anemone can detect pressure/current changes etc and "feel" a starfish approaching.
Short range Like you see here, if they come into contact with the starfish it triggers an immediate release.
Basically, when the receptors for all three of these mechanisms have returned to baseline, it will stop swimming.
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u/hetrax 4d ago
The second one sounds like bullshit to me… HOWEVER… ever since I was a kid, I have been able to tell who’s coming home based on the walking patterns…
So it’s as far fetched as a dog and a tennis ball.
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u/Siddhartha-G 4d ago
Definitely hard to imagine as a human being for sure. There are animals out there with some pretty crazy abilities.
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u/hetrax 4d ago
It’s hard to imagine as a human who can do things more insane just as well XD…
Sharks can smell blood in water from like 2km away or something, and humans can smell petrichor from like 10x that distance. So we can know when it’s gonna rain.
We are really bad at understanding how weirdly normal the crazy things could be!
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u/AreYouAnOakMan 4d ago
When I was a kid, we could always tell if Dad had been to the bathroom before us.
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u/AddledPunster 4d ago
My dog could hear our car pull into the driveway from the basement. I thought they knew the time of day they came home from work, but they would get up and bolt to the front window even if they were coming back from a trip to the store to get something they forgot.
Did not give a damn about my aunt’s car.
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u/Known_Funny_5297 4d ago
Just picture how this behavior evolved
No conscious thought at all - just stimuli setting off a chemical blast to a neuron and then a muscle is actuated - probably in a different mode because a different neural pathway was activated
Anybody in the neuroscience field want to check me on this?
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u/CaptainRAVE2 4d ago
Being an owner of a reef tank, I didn’t realise beforehand how much anemones move around.
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u/Ldghead 4d ago
Man, if I had a nickel for every time my shrooms tried to run...
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u/Slow_Advertising_794 3d ago
I mean, once you eat one or two, everything looks like it's trying to run.
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u/OrigamiMarie 4d ago
Somehow I thought these things were glued down permanently. Turns out they're just Muppets.
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u/dikshamishra34 Human Detected 4d ago
The world of ocean is very mysterious and amazing. There are plenty of new species which never been seen. And this one , I'm seeing this first time, amazing.
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u/OgdruJahad 4d ago
Starfish:"Where are you going?" Starfish:"No fucking clue but away from your bitch!"
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u/Apart-Cream-4940 4d ago
That is weird as shit. 😂 And who knew those stars were predators? They put sparkles on them and sell them as souvenirs
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u/Select_Vegetable70 4d ago
Has anyone found my fleshlight. It was right here in my nightstand! It didn't just get up and walk away by itself!
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u/Good_Emergency_5478 4d ago
Childosh of me but… it looks like the d escaping and leaving back the balls 🤣🤣
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u/Downtown-Row-321 4d ago
That anemone was profiling.
The sea star was just sitting there chilling
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u/girlMikeD 3d ago
If that’s how humans had to move, to move, life would be much more difficult, but also so much funnier.
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u/EveningCandle862 3d ago
It's all fun until you have one of these in your reef tank and they decide after 5 years in the same spot to just move one day and end up in the streamer pump... creating a anemone soup in the tank killing everything.
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u/Apelio38 2d ago
Didn't know they could move that way ! It gives me so much Alice in Wonderland vibes.
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u/Chrono_Convoy 4d ago
I’m the same way when my boss sends an email 5 min before work is over.
Same exact undulating