And yet when I give myself auto-brewery syndrome to keep myself permanently drunk people insist I have some kind of "serious medical problem".
You can live in a symbiotic relationship with your company's break-room policy, but you can't become a host for workers of your own. It's really unfair.
I was wondering why we didn't see any photosynthesizimg animals
Bees (and relatives) do it too. If you need to deal with a wasp nest or something like that, do it at night and their defense will be much less enthusiastic.
When I last dealt with some, knocking down the (small) nests would have a guard harass me until I moved about 10m away from the nest during the day. At night, it would just buzz me a bit before settling back down to rest without me even moving.
Note that I'm not saying it's safe to harass a nest/hive at night, just safer than doing it during the day. The ones I dealt with were small enough that I only ever saw a single guard plus one worker, and even during the day, sometimes I'd just fight the one guard instead of running, since it's hard for a single wasp to sting you if you can track it decently and manage any fear. Trying to deal with a large nest could still be fatal at night.
I'll add to this, sufficient artificial light will wake them up too. So don't point a big light at it in preparation for taking them out, because they'll take you out
"stealing"?! Who wrote this garbage?
this is sorta like how coral does it, and rare instance of jellyfish doing it too.
Cmiiw don't corals keep the algae alive instead of just keeping the chloroplast?
Is this the next Stelaris DLC?
Next? Plantoids have been a thing for ages. And yea you can even be photosynthetic, makes your pops consume less food for more energy
I wish I was one 
So cute!
Reminds me of the slugs from Satisfactory
That is really cool!
Also chlorotica does not mean what I thought it did
the process has a great name: Kleptoplasty
A disorder I'd like to develop.
Are fan shirts available?
I recently saw a vid about these things. Another interesting thing they can do is voluntary decapitation. The head can survive and grow new organs, possibly because photosynthesis gives them the energy to keep going and growing.
I should steal some chloroplasts.
I think the creators of Bioshock were correct to base the plot on seaslugs.
“Stealing”? Am I “stealing” fat from the food I eat? Since when is retaining some components of what you consume equivalent to theft?
Am I “stealing” fat from the food I eat?
Yes you are and you need to be stopped.
I would have gotten away with it, too, if not for you mean cows
I'd say, yes, you are literally consuming your food to take anything of value that your body can extract from it, often at the cost of everything for the thing you're eating (but definitely at the cost of the parts you eat). Like I'm a bit baffled as to how you can consider it not a form of theft. Hell, I'd even argue it is the purest form of theft there is and quite likely the original theft that only scavengers, photosynthesizers, and other life forms that survive on non-biological sources of energy aren't thieves in that manner.
I assume chloroplast is much more complex than fat and we do actually have fat within our body, while the slug doesn't naturally grow chloroplast.
It uses the chloroplast as the algae uses them. It doesn’t really it them it uses them to photosynthesize. If you took the wing off the chicken and used it to fly you could say that was stealing its wing
This is a pokemon if I’ve ever seen one
Water/Grass is pretty good defensive typing as well.
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