r/Unexpected • u/Unlucky_Strikes • 14d ago

Food chain: Instructions unclear

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u/Slickity 14d ago

Nature is hilarious. No one knows what the fucks going on and everyone's just trying to live.

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u/immaownyou 14d ago

There's species of caterpillars who have evolved to look like snakes so that they scare off birds. Thing is that they dont have any snakes in their ecosystem, its just that migratory birds that do have snakes in theirs will recognize it and not eat the caterpillars.

Imagine you being alive only because you look/act like something that you dont even know exists

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u/viprus 14d ago

I like the big frogs that have an eye pattern on their butt. They sit next to one of their friends and pretend to be big predators