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Amphibian Milk (mander.xyz)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236408925/researchers-have-found-an-amphibian-that-makes-milk-for-its-babies

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Researchers would use the proper "its"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Plot twist, their son is a linguist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Classic milk-fed amphibian linguists

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Frog milk!!! I'm disgusted!! You promised me rat or higher!!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Frogs don’t care about your disgust. Frogs do what they gotta do.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So can almonds and oats. /s

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

as an aside, this is the background image on my messages

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This is the funniest comment I've ever seen on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

I want salamander kefir. Anyone who attempts to get in my way of this is lacTOAST 😤

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can't wait for this to reignite the snitties argument in the DND community

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do I want to know more?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yes, you just haven't realised it yet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Don't echidnas and platypuses also lay eggs and feed their young milk?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, but all mammals by definition produce milk

Thing is this isn't even the second time mothers secreting food for babies has evolved - some birds do it as well as mammals (birds are basically just mammals 2.0 really, warm blooded, big brains, produce milk, highly active)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What birds give milk to their kids?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Pigeons/doves, flamingos, penguins

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Birds have big brains?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

They don’t, but their neuron density is similar to some primates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

How else do you think they remember the directions to their summer home every year?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, and?

Edit: before this we knew of two groups of alive things that produce milk: mammals and monotremes (egg laying mammals). Finding an amphibian that also does it is very interesting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Employees were helpful and informative back then.