If they really need to ruin nature somewhere, please let the US do this to their own nature so they can live with these consequences instead of outsourcing them

You’re just hoping for Iran to develop a better functioning democracy than the US after it was “bombed back to the stone ages”?

That IS super nieve.

It is the only liverwort that does this. No need to check on other liverwort species. You can leave them be.

Haha, are you speaking from your own practical experience, in which you failed and decided to buy canned food instead?

It’s not easy, but it’s not impossible either. It depends on your circumstances.

And there’s an in between as well: grow some of your own food and buy canned foods as well. Or share a garden with people who know what they’re doing.

Yes I guess cravings are part of the “reptilian brain” (brain stem) in humans as well.

Funny to think crocs could crave banana’s. “Finally, gotta have some potassium after all these meats”.

So they go around eating plants they don’t know to see if they like them and get a craving for them later? Doesn’t seem very crocodile-like

Interesting! But how do we know the crocs eat the fruit specifically as mineral or fiber supplement and not just for general sustenance, for the fun of death rolling a pumpkin, or “by accident”?

The sentence “it’s not by accident either” indicates clearly observable behaviour. I.e.: A croc needs potassium, then eats a banana. But how did the scientists observe this?

And how do the crocs know which fruit to eat? I guess for them to eat anything with the intention of being provided with minerals or fiber they need to know their fruits?

I have so many questions. I know bears know a lot about plants and some apes are known to use specific plants (as medicine even), but this is indicative of higher intelligence so I’d be curious to hear if anyone knows about how this works in primitive reptile brains.

Good job! Now it is both a reply and not a reply

We are more of a symbiont than we like to admit with more than half of our cells being non-human.

Next step is to find a suitable photobiont and go find a rock to lie on

Obnoxious creatures they are, always trying to take the shine from mosses. Mosses don’t need symbiosis because they’re perfectly able to survive harsh conditions by themselves. There’s been hardly a need to change their perfect designs for millions of years.

Lichens are just the result of symbiotic relationships formed whenever fungi and algae or cyanobacteria feel like doing it. They’re a promiscuous lot. Promiscuous scabs on a rock.

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That’s debatable, most sources estimate mosses to have been there before lichens.

Mosses are true plants and have leaves with chlorophyll though! Way more interesting in the context of there being trees or not. Lichens are just scabs on a rock.

Who are these people?

Maybe it feels counter-intuitive to some that sharks were there before trees…

But I hope it is intuitive that there was water long before there was soil? Then it’s just a small step to realize life in water has had a much longer time to develop.

Mosses were likely already there though

I’m no expert at this, but it seems to be the suffix here is ‘tard’ not ‘ard’, coming from Latin.

The root already has tard in it, from Latin retardare. It also has the word tard in it, French for late. Retard also means late in French.

Does anyone here know? This post also had me wondering about retard.

One of the 5 animals believed to have the capacity for sentience? I think you mean consciousness?

The entire mammal kingdom is widely considered sentient. As are many other groups like fish and insects.

Even with consciousness it’s stretching it is very conservative to estimate just 5 species.

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I didn’t know of its existence, thank you! Such a spot on recommendation

No worries, it was not the most clear joke (it went over people’s head I think, seeing the downvotes).

All jokes aside though, coincidentally I just finished reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass”, which has reinvigorated my respect for the Haudenosaunee and the Three Sister’s. Such a great read! I’m a student of ecology at the moment, and I studied Social Anthropology years ago so it was double interesting.

I agree with you, it was just a word joke

Don’t culturally appropriate please

Edit: come on, it’s just a word joke from a none native speaker. Culturally appropriate and cultural appropriation is pretty close no? I never realized until now and thought it was funny.