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[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago (8 children)

That doesn’t make sense, caterpillars don’t mate. So why have a display like this? Or does this scare off predators somehow?

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Put a stack of decaying skin on your head and see how appetizing you look to predators

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, fair. Maybe it’s just like that lizard that squirts blood out of its eyes and predators just go “EESH WTF”

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