• saltnotsugar@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    The problem is they they’re just designed to eat and get chonky. If they had invested in cool ninja combat during evolution, scientists believe they would be not only more likely to survive, but be a lot cooler.

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        11 months ago

        Most caterpillars are mildly poisonous since they only eat a single type of plant so they are immune to the plants poisonous effect. That gets into their fleshy hotdog body. Unfortunately most birds are also mostly immune.

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        11 months ago

        Due to Newtons 46th law of awesomeness, Ninjas are still cooler than spikes, but still are pretty dang cool.