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erniet's avatar

Very cool! The eusociality hypothesis is quite interesting!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Right!? I can’t wait to read more in the future. I can’t say I’m totally convinced, but it is really fascinating.

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EJ Trask's avatar

well you've got me hooked for the misadventures

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Honeygloom's avatar

Yes 🙌

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Caro Henry's avatar

Oh my! It’s a good thing they’re not carnivorous!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Haha! IRL, it would be a very helpful adaptation for them, but I see what you’re getting at😜

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

In the dim glow of the moonlight, the Platycerium bifurcatum, known for its serene beauty and unique survival as an epiphyte in the wilds of Java, New Guinea, and Australia, revealed a darker, more sinister side as its broad, antler-like fronds began to quiver and twitch unnaturally, each movement synchronized as if responding to an unheard symphony played by a ghostly orchestra, leading one to ponder if the stories of ancient, whispering forests were not just tales but warnings, for as the fronds embraced the air, they seemed to beckon, not for the water and nutrients they so cleverly extracted from their aerial existence, but for something far more ominous, drawing the unwary closer with a mesmerizing dance that promised wonders but hinted at horrors lurking beneath their lush, green veneer, a silent testament to the eerie, unexplored depths of plant behavior and the unsettling thought that, perhaps, we are not alone in our capacity for awareness, ensnaring the imagination in a web of fascination and dread that clung like the cold, damp mist of a haunted forest.

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Honeygloom's avatar

🤩Is that one whole sentence? GODMODE😍

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

This is a bit more unsettling -

In the dim glow of the moonlight, the Platycerium bifurcatum, known for its serene beauty and unique survival as an epiphyte in the wilds of Java, New Guinea, and Australia,

revealed

a darker,

more sinister side

as its broad, antler-like fronds began to quiver and twitch unnaturally, each movement synchronized as if responding to an unheard symphony played by a ghostly orchestra,

leading one to ponder

if the stories of ancient, whispering forests were not just tales

but warnings,

for as the fronds embraced the air, they seemed to beckon, not for the water and nutrients they so cleverly extracted from their aerial existence,

but for something

far more ominous,

drawing the unwary closer with a mesmerizing dance that promised wonders but hinted at horrors lurking beneath their lush, green veneer,

a silent testament

to the eerie, unexplored depths of plant behavior

and the unsettling thought that,

perhaps,

we are not alone in our capacity for awareness, ensnaring the imagination in a web of fascination and dread that clung like the cold, damp mist

of a haunted forest.

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love playing with form, this is so cool!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Your turn. Take it, rip the seams, move words, change it.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Yes. Aspirin is a psychedelic for me. 😜

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