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@KateOfMind

This is a lot more silly than Wilson.

@guyjantic @mikemccaffrey

I'm going to use "rotifer toes" like other people use "twinkle toes"

As in "Listen, rotifer toes, this song and dance may fly up in Albany but we don't do that around here."

@heptapodEnthusiast @mikemccaffrey

"channel now defunct"

I'm kind of sad about that. I was a supporter for years.

@mikemccaffrey

"toes"

yeah. just roll with it.

@mikemccaffrey

You ever put some pond or puddle or moss water under a microscope just to check out what they are doing in there?

Well this is where you will see a rotifer. That's a good diagram. They are a bit like tiny water filters. They cycle water through their mouth and eat little bits and whatnots in the pond water.

Just part of the explosion of microscopic life.

Here is a lovely video about them:

@ubi

I am horrified at the suggestion.

But you can be the food tester.

some were probably poisonous.

Consider the qualitative difference between watching a rotifer and watching an insect.

The rotifer is alive, it reacts. But it's like a little machine in the way that people THINK insects are like machines.

We need to bring them all back and find out.

Thinking about the early arthropods in the Cambrian seas. We know that they had a nervous system and brains from fossil evidence.

Many modern arthropods have more complex brains, and there isn't anything exactly like these early simple brains.

So, I wonder if you were to watch these creatures feeding and hunting would it be different from watching modern arthropods?

I think it might.

Could they hide? Did they get frustrated?

@McRocker @photovotary

This is the best and funniest possible answer.

I think one needs to know CNC nerds to get nice versions of this type of thing.

@becomingwisest @vga256

Quite the epic tale taken all together?

@vga256

Thank you!

Did you know that leafcutter ants will drop leaves sometimes rather than carrying them down?

Though they often just fall with the leaf.

At the local natural history museum their ant colony hardly ever does these kinds of falls because there is a mote around their feeding area and the ants seem aware of the danger.

And now I have another idea for an experiment.

With an invention like the helistat you can at least understand the appeal. Who has not stood in a remote location looking at your destination over trees and past mountains and thought "god dang it what if we could just fly it over there?"

This is "An Invention" maybe not a good one. But it makes (some) sense.

There are other new technologies that are just as unstable and nerve-wracking too look at but they somehow also lack this basic quality: a reason to exist.

@sealperez

I think you need to uhhhh re-flash the BIOS or something on that one.

@KateOfMind

I bought it on Abebooks. I collect books about ants. Please don't tell anyone.

@Phosphenes

The "King James" version of the bible uses "it" rather than "she" ... but in some other texts they get the pronoun right for a worker ant which makes me wonder if some people knew that all of the workers are female or if it's just a coincidence.

@Phosphenes

I think they are both copying proverbs 6:6

Look to the ant lazy one,
consider her ways and be wise,
She has no boss, no overseer or king,
yet she stores provisions in summer
she gathers her food at harvest.

It's important for those of you who may have written, or might yet write a book to know that nearly every book that I've liked *this* much wasn't some big hit. Not some acclaimed work.

It was just a book that finally found one of the people who would love it.

And your audience is out there too.

It might be like six people, but will you deny them freedom?

You ever read a book that you liked so much that you thought "if I were in prison, but I had this book I would not mind at least until I was done reading it"

@jopabinia.bsky.social

myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)

Attached: 1 image This book is SO GOOD. Someone on here told me to read it. I want to read it like a podcast with commentary. I have many comments. #books #ants

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