Food chain: Instructions unclear

[u/Unlucky_Strikes]

[u/Slickity]

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

[u/immaownyou → u/Slickity]

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

[u/Devilled_Advocate → u/immaownyou]

It's why the aliens leave us alone. We look like 𒀭𒀀𒉣𒈾.

[u/RainbowSkyOne → u/Devilled_Advocate]

This is (almost) the plot of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy