Post #1695988
2026-01-19 22:38 UTC
@futurebird Do ants have birth defects? I wouldn't have thought of it affecting animals so small, but I saw a spider with 7 normal legs and one tiny one, and it made me wonder. Like, had it lost a leg and was regenerating, or did it develop that way. (I didn't think arthropods could regenerate limbs, but maybe they can?)
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@futurebird@sauropods.win 2026-01-19 22:41
@kludgekml@sunbeam.city Yes, and I once filmed some of my ants doing surgery on an ant with what was basically a club foot when she was a pupae so that when she emerged later she could walk. Here is the video: https://www.tumblr.com/zinderant/806093542530465792
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@apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises 2026-01-19 22:51
@kludgekml@sunbeam.city @futurebird@sauropods.win TIL while checking if i'd misremembered anything about crustaceans that there's an entire fishing practice that grossly overestimates this ability https://en.wikipedia.o...