r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/yoyome85 • 3d ago

Video Crescent pigeon performing its courtship dance to a shoe with pink "feet" like his own

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus 3d ago

how does it relate to addiction i didn't see it in the article. also that bit about the beetle continuing to fuck the bottle while his pecker was being eaten by ants was wild

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u/UnRespawnsive 3d ago

So you happened to give an example of it yourself, where their biology tells them "thing is good" and it makes them ignore how it actually screws them over if they keep doing it. Very often related to human addictions.

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus 3d ago

its a good analysis i just thought i missed something from the article maybe. also, i think porn is another one of those biology traps. we are meat robots too just like the bugs

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u/Jack0Blad3s 2d ago

Weird to see someone saying porn is a trap with Dionysus in their username 😅. That aside, that incident about the beetles-and-bottles incident has had other interesting implications as well. Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist, proposed that evolution favors fitness over truth. Which meant organisms evolved perceptions for survival and reproduction, not for seeing reality as it truly is. Makes me wonder what we can’t see because of our own evolution.

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus 2d ago

hey just cuz it's a trap doesnt mean you cant enjoy the bate

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u/Jack0Blad3s 2d ago

True true.

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u/smurb15 2d ago

I know some with the iq of a bug and it's not a joke.

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u/BatFrequent6684 2d ago

There's a video it there of a praying mantis, that, while eating something herself, is being cut in half (I think by ants as well?) and is completely unbothered.

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u/highcommander010 1d ago

sips out morning coffee in a mist