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[–] 39 points 4 days ago (22 children)

It's good that we're giving animals hints about how to develop technology but you'd think we'd start by handing out matches or something 🤷‍♀️

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  • [–] 40 points 4 days ago (18 children)

    That is how you get pyromaniac slugs.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 days ago (8 children)

    I just looked it up and your average slug lives for about six years, so even at slug speed that's quite a lot of damage that slug could do.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    That is way longer than I expected a slug to live… I would have though less than month but I never claimed to be a slugologist

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Most animals live longer than seems reasonable. There a spider that lives in the corner of my garden shed and it still there after five years.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Herring gulls in extreme cases can live into their 30s. There's probably a haggard old gull somewhere which remembers the '90s.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Some tarantula species can live up to +20 years old, I have read even claims of +30.

    Also big parrots might be able to live up to +80, though the exact numbers are unconfirmed for parrots, as they are living longer and longer in captivity, as our knowledge on how to keep them well gets better and better.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (8 children)

    I'd prefer a cytomantic slug, thank you very much. DOOMSLUG!!

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    It’s a made-up word from a Brandon Sanderson young adult novel that includes magic-enabling slug familiars.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    By etymology that would mean cellular magic, make of that what you will

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  • [–] 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Squirrels will eventually enslave snails for their own 0.01 Hz electrical grid.

    The wheel must turn

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