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Growing ideas, like an ant farming fungus.https://t.co/K7BH35VsD9
Synapse. Woven networks of thought. A web of ideas.https://t.co/Yuuoo6hNJi
Projecting models of thought onto a web of ideas.Listening to the echos as the ants crawl along the spider's web.https://t.co/CagLl3fLel
Spiders ought to eat plants....*two hours a later*Spiders do eat plants.https://t.co/T77PrZaHc3
If spiders can purr... They ought to be able to mimic ant signaling mechanism to trick them into being part of the hive?https://t.co/zDCPsZMDCN
How do ants hear?https://t.co/UpZbxj34BZ
Spiders pretending to be ants to defend.https://t.co/mQZ9rbfZrYhttps://t.co/QoOO4qhb1J
Beetles speaking the ant bro code.https://t.co/udgrnXIntr
"the vibrations produced by worm grunting mimic those produced by digging moles that are the natural predators of earthworms, thereby eliciting an out-of-context antipredator response that exposes the earthworms and facilitates their capture."https://t.co/bnxUGGEfda
"assassin bugs (Stenolemus bituberus) lure the web-building spiders on which they feed by plucking the web’s silk threads to produce vibratory cues that mimic the frequency, duration, amplitude and temporal structure of the vibrations generated by insect prey"
There seems to be some evidence that just chemical mimicry alone is not enough to enable myrecophylic spiders and beetles passage in an ant nest. https://t.co/m1A8cueFqC And there is some research on vibration signals in ants being used by parasites: https://t.co/rPOBaZfwvh
Is no one looking at acoustic signals of spider purring being used to gain entry?This seems to be state of the art: https://t.co/FiHmeyips9 tho it's mostly just beetles and moths?I can't found anything specifically about spider acoustic / vibrations being used that way.
I did find this example of a hyper-parasite fungus being used to trick ants into thinking an infected caterpillar isn't a danger using a similar hydrocarbon signal profile as the ants use themselves. https://t.co/Yl1i50nJHi
I wonder if there is a species of fish who somehow vibrate the edge of river banks to inspire worms to escape from moles. It seems some of the fish that eat burried stuff are able to locate prey by vibrations alone.https://t.co/l5waxVXb74
What did you think "Tremors" series of horror movie was based on anyway? https://t.co/exr5tYhH67
I wonder what the rates are for getting a face swap.Funny little trend I picked up on in 2013: https://t.co/0ZUm36xnqjJohn Woo's Face/Off mashed up with Minority Report's Eyeball weirdness.https://t.co/D7MQTJAAG7
That face when... The (former) chief of CIA's disguise team does an AMA on Reddit.https://t.co/VISfrICmkJ in part to promote a wired article on the topic that covers the feasibility of Mission Impossible's Fake Faces. https://t.co/SRdQp5bprU https://t.co/udbfxIwDGE
I am projecting my model making acuity into the space of ant identity signals by cross pollinating it with my knowledge of facial and behavioral detection differences between humans and DCNNs.https://t.co/3isDuwtet2
I bet nobody one except for @4LOVofScience & crew are thinking about the future when we use metabolites of the skin microbiome to detect friend from foe.Are we becoming more like ants every day? Or are we already ants, and we just don't see it.https://t.co/Mkrs78aJJs
Did you notice that the wired article was released in May, the AMA was released December Last year, and the video itself was published on YouTube in October Last year?Wired is listening to the swarm and releasing content on a slow drip, feeding you your own signals. Why?
Pred ⇒ PreySpider ⇒ fish https://t.co/3j8ZEIPbMFSpider ⇒ mice https://t.co/8SxfMBBgD8Fish ⇒ mice https://t.co/Q32LNJk7QyFish ⇒ spider https://t.co/bPqhmdND3cMice ⇒ fish?Mice ⇒ Scorpion https://t.co/WABw1cVAsgPlant ⇒ mice https://t.co/gxxxSWfK2n
Spider ⇒ Plant https://t.co/XYFgOGPuCg
Squrrel ⇒ Squrrel https://t.co/grpD3W0DWWBird ⇒ Squrrel https://t.co/ciW53eX58RSqurrel ⇒ Bird https://t.co/kbBcIEkYoMhttps://t.co/o0vcZx81Zu
Squirrel Girl ⇒ Thanos https://t.co/6CDk9H9tpy
Prairie Dogs ⇒ Squirrel https://t.co/mvwMV6XDDnSquirrel ⇒ Prairie Dogs?There are rumors of Squirrels eating dogs in a backwoods Russian town. I'm hesitant to write it off as mistake. I do wonder is it a swarm of small ones, or a bunch of giant ones?https://t.co/lFViyOIRcs
Ever see a naked squirrel and wonder "is that a Chupacabra?"I have.https://t.co/HYL3qMKQKB
Think Squirrels are scary? Don't mess with chickadees. I've seen them mob away Squirrels and kill + eat mice.https://t.co/vvmH8I2EjV
I think a lot about things that hide in people's toilets. Both rats and cockroaches can hold their breath for far longer than you'd suspect."real bird poo and the bird poo costume were indistinguishable, as viewed by the spiders’ insect predators."https://t.co/LPv7Ru16C4
Growing predictive models by foraging at the frontiers of thought.https://t.co/ylnrm8eNaW
"the evolution of social complexity is still poorly understood. [maybe due to] researchers focusing on the feasibility of quantifying aspects of sociality, rather than what features are characteristic of animal social complexity in the first place."https://t.co/xVHGACwqW4
Plant ⇒ Birdhttps://t.co/v0galqj12N
Fungus ⇒ Frog https://t.co/rAYLDGNos4Fungus ⇒ Bats https://t.co/qhsPjM1Qjh
Maybe we should stop killing the slugs?https://t.co/4I09TWjyb0
Rats ⇒ fish!"But they also uncovered evidence that suggests this rat species is far more ubiquitous than previously thought.Indeed, they go as far as to say that the Stolzmann's fish-eating rat is becoming a "nuisance"."https://t.co/q9LSFhJxdl
Mice ⇒ fish!"It feeds on snails and possibly small fish." - Wikipediahttps://t.co/THjvWoiMcF
Moth ⇒ Meat"There are some moth species that have gone a step further in adopting an animal-based diet, feeding directly on living animals and not on their cast-off skins and horns."https://t.co/eadj9kdldK
Growing models in the lab. Letting them loose to see if they survive in the messy territory.https://t.co/x4U4HYs2DD
Snails ⇒ Wormshttps://t.co/XhsxQDbQVtSnails ⇒ Fishhttps://t.co/podVYO3VKR
Giraffe ⇒ Meat"Do Giraffes in captivity have a different sense of taste that would predispose toward wanting to eat rodents?" => I found 2 examples of Giraffes scavenging & resisted exploring height impacts on scenting ability.https://t.co/GxDekygQZShttps://t.co/XE0bFbY5LI https://t.co/6nIAojAddM
I really really really wanna explore the biomechanics of Giraffe Tongues and how their angiotensin system operates.https://t.co/7X0lxu8pe5
Does anybody else wanna know more about "Bovine-Like Coronavirus Isolated from a Giraffe" a and if it impacts their ability to forage for food? https://t.co/djKTTXwZGc
Why hello there Sonic Hedgehog Gene in Giraffa camelopardalis https://t.co/Ls0jeFr2W1https://t.co/vUEFs89PwB
(How) Are Giraffes related to Camels?https://t.co/Cc9SQjSamIhttps://t.co/LMAD3p25k7
I wanna know why (when? what causes?) Artiodactyla to eat baby birds and chomp on squirrel brains.https://t.co/TOzVqcwNbZhttps://t.co/YVdS8MROpX
Ya'll afraid of wolves and bears attacking you?I'm worried about rare risks like horses, cows, pigs, birds, and squirrels."Some readers described having seen horses eating live chicks, mice, and goldfish whole or by biting off and swallowing the head."https://t.co/H9GeT2Cho1
Gorilla ⇒ MonkeyGiraffe ⇒ Forest DeerGenotyping Gorilla scat, find Monkey and Deer DNA."The discovery raises the possibility that gorillas might have a secret meat habit—scavenging or hunting discretely."https://t.co/EJCk8wHLmyIs this origin of Sasquatch myths🤔
I like that the latest video by How To Make Everything failed at 'worm grunting"https://t.co/rE1IpZgbqZIt looks surprisingly hard to get right, and may not work on all worm varieties.https://t.co/0LdouZStHn
"the vibrations produced by worm grunting mimic those produced by digging moles that are the natural predators of earthworms, thereby eliciting an out-of-context antipredator response that exposes the earthworms and facilitates their capture."https://t.co/bnxUGGEfda
Hare ⇒ Carrion"expected predators to drop in and pick at the free offerings. Instead, two-and-a-half years of footage revealed hares ate from 20 of 161 carcasses observed."https://t.co/zT4pzUY9SOhttps://t.co/vz3fdgowIU
I've been trying to find bacteria that produces enzyme to allow rabbits to eat insects. They don't produce chitinase so they're likely not insectivore.They can eat meat tho https://t.co/FWKp9Uh6MjOddly humans can't live off rabbit - not enough fat.https://t.co/iXRht3UcMM
Tortoise ⇒ Bird"As they write in Current Biology, and as the picture shows, they have seen one of the animals they are observing quite deliberately attack, kill and eat a noddy-tern chick."https://t.co/D2MCr06Hsl
"We present video evidence of one such hunt. Although more than one tortoise has been seen hunting, at present we do not know how frequently this occurs, but it does show that tortoises are much more interesting animals than most people think."https://t.co/j63JR6BSpD
Chipmunk ⇒ Snakehttps://t.co/5hZ51nOlBR
Squirrel ⇒ Snakehttps://t.co/ODapNxxfky
Bees ⇒ Meathttps://t.co/hSrCEGFuKq