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[–] ch00f 72 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Fun fact I like to share with everyone who enjoys shrimp. Up until the ~~90s~~ 80s they were very difficult to breed in captivity. They just wouldn’t reproduce.

Until someone figured out that it you cut out one of their eyes, they will readily breed. Nobody really knows why, but they snip off one of the eye stalks on the females to get them to breed.

[–] gibmiser 55 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] ch00f 42 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Fucked up man. Glad I became vegan

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Oh...geeze. This read like a note found in a Resident Evil game...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The fear of death does tend to make creatures want to reproduce.

It is fucked though.

[–] ch00f 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That’s not it actually. Current theory is it has something to do with the overall decreased sensation of sunlight indicating it’s mating season or something. They won’t develop mature ovaries with both eyes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

There's also hormones they think are removed when the stalk is removed.

But really, no animal likes being injured. And they have no idea what else is going to get cut off.

If some other thing that's observing humans cuts the dominant arm off a man without any access to females, they're going to suggest doing that limits how much they want to masturbate.

When in reality they just can't masturbate anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Clearly the subject of the study is unfamiliar with “the stranger”

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[–] surewhynotlem 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear what they do to pigs

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

I'll bite.. what do they do to pigs?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

how did they discover that? who's just going around cutting random parts of swimmy guys??

[–] TastyWheat 18 points 5 days ago

Maybe some bad bitch shrimp got in a knife fight with a lobster, lost her eye and just went ham

[–] ch00f 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

According to where I learned it, in high enough densities in concrete tanks, some shrimp would grind their own eyestalks off on the side of the tank. Some farmer put two and two together.

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

Jeebus christ. That’s… horrible

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

SLPT: Poke out your girl's eyeball to get some guaranteed hard lovin.

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

Fun fact

Not fun at all

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (3 children)

ever eaten anything with red in it? (like the icing decorations on the pictured cake)

https://www.livescience.com/36292-red-food-dye-bugs-cochineal-carmine.html

[–] ZeffSyde 5 points 4 days ago

Also, ever eaten a shiny candy? Chances are is coated in confectioners glaze, which is a fancy word for shellac, which is an insect excretion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's pretty interesting.
You never think about it, but most of everything is dyed. And that dye has to come from somewhere.

[–] nifty 15 points 5 days ago

Then why don’t they call it bug fried rice? Checkmate Atheists

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

And they're fucking delicious.

[–] Hiro8811 4 points 4 days ago

I've been saying that for years and I call them water bugs

[–] Sam_Bass 4 points 4 days ago

So is crab and molluscs

[–] dual_sport_dork 11 points 5 days ago (10 children)

So is lobsters and crabs.

Eating them anyway, though.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Lobsters are commonly referred to as bugs as well.

There is no scientific definition of “bug”, but the folk definition seems to be any invertebrate, typically with more than four limbs.

[–] Vandals_handle 3 points 4 days ago

The order Hemiptera would like a word with you.

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[–] RangerJosie 3 points 4 days ago

Delicious bugs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's an ugly planet. A bug planet.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Depends on the definition of bug. Entemological true bugs are a very specific class of insects, but the term bug was used to describe any arthropod for significantly longer than proper taxonomy has been around.

So if you're a biologist, no, if you're an anthropologist, yes.

Someone covered in brine shrimp would be more likely to feel covered in bugs than covered in marine crustaceans though.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'd like to subscribe to more covered in sea creatures facts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Giant isopods have been filmed swarming sharks to impede their movement and gill function when the local detritus is lacking nutrients.

[–] MutilationWave 2 points 4 days ago

Hell there's a video of them killing small sharks. Terrifying little bugs.

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[–] MutilationWave 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Tyler's new album title

[–] NegativeLookBehind 9 points 5 days ago

Shrimps be bugs

[–] sunbrrnslapper 9 points 5 days ago

At least the message is delivered on a cake.

[–] cm0002 9 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I've eaten cooked bugs before, properly prepared, it's pretty good

Can't remember what kind of bug it was specifically, but I do remember it was fried

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It occurred to me while playing Helldivers that all the bugs we were killing would probably taste like crab after boiling.

puts on bib and grabs the shell crackers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hmm. Deep rock too probably.

edit: ok fuck whoever posted that fake PNG

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