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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 65 points 6 days ago

And allergies are because your nose is full of tree jizz

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

~~Nah its the whole baby, not jizz~~

It is jizz

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You're thinking of seeds.

Pollen is only the male half of the genetic material required for sexual plant reproductin, and is the step before plants produce fruit and seeds.

Hence, jizz.

[-] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's kind of both

The pollen isn't the jizz but it produces the jizz

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You're so right that ones on me, idk why I said that

[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

seeing people admit their mistakes online is one of the rarest and most beautiful sights in nature

[-] mcqtom@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Yes, thank you for your humility, Shark Fucker 420.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Do we have a /rimjob_steve community somewhere already?

[-] Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Don't be so hard on yourself Sharkfucker420

[-] mcqtom@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago
[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

when ya wank, do you shoot 3kg naked shitting humans?

[-] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

It's the only way I can get off.

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[-] Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I can't go out in summer cause I constantly have to say no homo and people keep looking at me all weird

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 13 points 5 days ago

No different to most pop music.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes and no. A lot of the sounds are mating calls, but there's so much more being communicated.

Some sounds are warnings, like when squirrels see a cat and start to chirp. If you watch them, you'll see them run up a tree and pause upside down on the trunk, chirping an alert to others. Other squirrels in the area will repeat the behavior and amplify the "message" until the threat (the neighborhood cat) goes away.

Some sounds are intended to trick others. Blue jays mimic the sounds made by birds of prey in order to scare other birds away from their feeding grounds. It works really well - I've seen a jay clear a whole flock of starlings from my yard before. He then swooped down and plucked a bunch of worms and bugs from the soil.

There's probably more, but these are just examples I've observed while hanging out on my porch.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 days ago

honestly i'd expect most sounds to not be mating sounds unless it's specifically a time of year where most of the animals there are in mating season

i think we humans tend to forget that it's not very normal to just always be looking to bang, for most animals (and plants even) it's done very enthusiastically at specific times.

[-] ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Jays in my area well fly around making eagle calls convincing enough to fool plenty humans (myself included). Multiple times I've heard that unique shriek and searched the sky for a big bird only to see a cheeky Blue Jay hopping around in a tree 🤣

[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

TIL this waterfalls want to get nasty

[-] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

That’s why they’re so wet.

[-] Verito@lemm.ee 25 points 6 days ago

Birds are generally saying one of two things: "Fuck you," or "Fuck me."

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

the sound of millions of animals desperately trying to get laid

And yet when I do it, I'm a pervert and asked to leave the park.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 points 6 days ago

You need to dress more flamboyantly. Like a peacock.

[-] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

Tehehe, "cock"!

I'll show myself out, thank you.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 24 points 6 days ago

Some are also like "Fuck off, this is my tree!"

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

Enjoy it before Zuck sucks all that water out to cool the computers that bring you Italian brainrot animals and Turbodong 2000 videos.

[-] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Italian brainrot animals ?? That sounds funny i wanna know what it is

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

It was silly and goofy at first but quickly became tiresome. I just wonder if the amount of computing power and resources we throw at such frivolities are worth it.

[-] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Turbodong 2000

They’re releasing a retro version? Will it say cool catch phrases from a quarter century ago?

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 21 points 6 days ago

That just makes it all the more beautiful, to be honest.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

and it makes a lot of sense when one thinks of clear cutting in terms of puritanism.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 points 6 days ago

Sometimes the sound is the animals actually getting laid.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 days ago

Yeah, still WAY better than listening to traffic and incessant car noise?

[-] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 14 points 6 days ago

This meme implies that birds and insects are not animals

[-] Eiren@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 days ago

It's also just wrong, because quite a lot of mammals and birds use sound for intraspecies communication (a la human language), echolocation is fairly common, feeding and hunting often generate sound... Sound production for mating purposes is a hefty chunk, but the joke here is pretty misleading.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 10 points 6 days ago
[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago
[-] Deme@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago

If you really boil it down, all that any species ever does is in some way an attempt to propagate its genes. We aren't any different either. The artistic spark that got Davinci to paint the Mona Lisa was there due to such behaviour being an evolutionarily beneficial trait (being good at art increases the social standing of a person and thus increases their chances of reproduction). I don't want to sound cynical about this because I'm not. That's just life. It really doesn't matter. The painting is still beautiful.

[-] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't try to propagate my genes ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[-] Deme@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

Perhaps not with conscious intent. I suppose even staying alive and contributing to a society still means that you help your relatives pass their genes on. Even gay penguins do this when they adopt an orphaned egg.

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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Well, big same, ya know?

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Or trying to kill each other at lunch time

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

Outside of mating season, birds definitely do sing just for fun.

And even in mating season, I wonder if birds really consciously try to "get laid" or if they just sing, because it feels like the right thing to do in the moment and then getting laid happens. I mean, some start singing very young. How would they know what it's for the first time? Not all birds are as smart as crows.

This review paper looks at the motivation for both kinds of singing: intrinsically motivated (just for fun, all year round) and singing that attracts mates. In the latter, it's unclear, what triggers the motivation. The author supposes, it might be a combination of socially reinforced behavior and the vicinity of a mate, rather then the act of copulation, that triggers the reward.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

They should just get tinder accounts and stfu.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

The hills! They’re alive!!

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago
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