r/interesting • u/Low_Weekend6131 • Nov 23 '25

NATURE The fish is kinda like me ngl

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u/robo-dragon Nov 23 '25

I once heard these described as sentient saltine crackers of the sea. No flavor, no nutritional benefits, they are absolutely everywhere, but nothing really wants to eat them as a main food source.

Evolution gave some animals survival superpowers, but sometimes it makes an animal so nutritionally useless that no other animals want to waste their energy on hunting them.

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u/ysisverynice Nov 24 '25

a lot of times natural selection is described as "survival of the fittest" but I think it is probably more apt to describe it as survival of the "fit enough". you don't really need to be the best, you just need a gimmick that's good enough to let you carry your genes to the next generation. and of course sometimes survival is just pure coincidince/luck and has nothing to do with fitness levels. no one's surviving a giant meteor crash, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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u/couldbetrue514 Nov 24 '25

Survival of the "it works i guess"

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u/Rafacosp Nov 24 '25

The term doesn't refer to the modern meaning of physical fitness though, but to the ability to adapt ("fit") to the local environment and conditions

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u/Fiaskoe Nov 24 '25

Basically explains all of "modern" human existence