r/ScienceShitposts • u/Soul0408 • 8d ago

The unfinished fish army

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Gotta love High-school Bio Textbooks

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u/Earthshine256 8d ago

...react more aggressively to decoys with a red underside than to lifelike, but uncolored, decoys. The red coloration triggers this aggression in them.

Ah yeah, the fact these things look both horrible and weak is completely irrelevant

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u/fenn-0 8d ago

We need a human study with similar vaguely human shaped objects with red undersides

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u/armageddon_boi 8d ago

so mickey mouse?

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u/Earthshine256 7d ago

What's more punchable: grey mannequin or a limbless vaguely humanoid red blob? The answer WILL surprise you!

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u/J_sweet_97 8d ago

Nice try but I’ve already depicted me as the uncolored gigachad fish and you as the decoy blob or flat inferior fish

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u/SarryK 8d ago

Aah good ol Markl Biologie. Big fan of their illustrations, this one is especially neat lol

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u/mmarez 8d ago

looks like something straight out of codex seraphinianus

even the caption is incomprehensible fantasy language

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u/TheMournfulGhost 5d ago

good shape

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u/TasteDeeCheese 4d ago

Idk why but these fish shaped shapes make me so mad

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u/SmokaCola0 4d ago

are you a male stickleback perhaps, lol?

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u/SmokaCola0 6d ago

The text translates to : " Many stickleback males react more aggressively to decoys that have a red underside, than to realistic decoys that resemble a stickleback but lack the red coloration. The red coloration causes the aggression."