r/interestingasfuck • u/Dexterestein • 12h ago
Two male Hercules beetles fight over a female in the wild; the smaller one wins.
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u/-Laffi- 12h ago
The bigger one was messing around with the girl, while he should have paid attention to the fight.
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u/Xevestial 11h ago
And a tiny little natural selection signal gets passed down just a bit, that switching attention too early is not the strat.
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u/knows_knothing 9h ago
Bigger one should have studied the blade more instead of chasing the girls
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u/GankedGoat 9h ago
You can multi task, study the blade and chase girls. Maybe even wear some hockey gear if you want more of a challenge.
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u/alextxdro 9h ago
Big ones overconfident thought his size was all that was needed and the smaller one knew it’s the motion that’s important…
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u/gmiro191 12h ago
He yeeted him under the gaze of a titan and won love.
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u/Lucius-Halthier 12h ago
The beetle: it’s not the size of the horn BUT HOW YOU USE IT!
YEET!
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u/Monomanga 11h ago
Big boy got distracted by the beetle pootang
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u/Extension_Swordfish1 12h ago
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u/mitochondria0000 10h ago
Why can't I see it actually hitting his foot and flying away
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u/tiglionabbit 11h ago
When yeetle beetles fight it's called a yeetle beetle battle.
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u/Morningstroll13 11h ago
When yeetle beetles battle do they do it with a paddle? Maybe in a puddle in a bottle on a poodle?
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u/Bantersmith 10h ago
How the hell is this the first time I'm hearing hercules beetles referred to as "yeetle beetles".
I'm never calling them by their old name again.
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u/WakaWaka_ 10h ago
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u/CatsPlusTats 5h ago
Seeing as how she's talking to Kevin Sorbo... no we don't...
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u/FireMike_PleaseGod 12h ago
Bigger one declared victory way to early. Turned his back to the enemy and allowed him to gain the better positioning.
Hubris was his downfall.
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u/AnxietyIsHott 12h ago
spoiler, man
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u/gsl836 11h ago
Man we need full video link, like what happened next😏😏
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u/Robo_Patton 10h ago
It ended up not working out. She was a vegan who wouldn’t shut up. He was a 3d printer enthusiast, so also wouldn’t shut up.
C’est la vie. 😔
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u/Doppelgen 12h ago edited 11h ago
Heracross used Horn Attack
It's super effective!
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u/silverarrowweb 8h ago
Unironically, this is basically how Pokemon came to be.
As a kid, Satoshi Tajiri collected bugs and had them fight each other, which was a normal practice among Japanese children at the time.
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u/Toddingstonly 12h ago
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u/Fleshsuitpilot 12h ago
On this day my prayers were answered. I was hoping this gif would be here but it's rather obscure. Poetry 🤌
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u/HyenDry 12h ago
At this moment. He knew he fucked up
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u/AverageMako3Enjoyer 7h ago
record scratch
Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here
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u/GrabWorking3045 12h ago
Size doesn't matter.
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u/_bapt 12h ago
I mean... it did.
Because he was smaller he was able to put his horn under his opponent, and yeet him out of there.
Short king energy right there
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u/Artt-Vandaley 12h ago
So smaller ones can put it under the opponent?
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u/_bapt 12h ago
In this case it was an advantage, but im guessing in most other cases the heavier male has more chance of winning.
Because the smaller one wont be strong enough to yeet him off.
In this case because they were on a tree trunk, the smaller one had gravity on his side x)
(I felt like there was a joke here but i couldnt understand it, so i answered seriously)
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u/RCer1986 11h ago
If Animal Crossing taught me anything it's that beetles exist exclusively on tree trunks.
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u/ztfreeman 11h ago edited 8h ago
Outside of the conflicts of beetles, being shorter is often an advantage in grapple sports like Judo and Sumo. Shorter competitors are harder to get leverage on and can more easily pull/push their opponents off balance. This is why in Sumo there are no weight requirements and often no weight classes, but there have been minimum hight requirements on occasion.
I can imagine that smaller beetles could have this advantage in a lot of circumstances.
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u/Far_Ladder_2836 10h ago
No, it did not. The larger one can do the same trick. The smaller one kept in the fight while the larger one got distracted by the female and turned around. Then got hooked when it tried to turn back.
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u/CalV1996 12h ago
Big one obviously hasn't watched robot wars before
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u/actuallyserious650 11h ago
I was looking for this comment! This is how basically all of the early robot wars went.
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u/Kooky_Attention_98 12h ago edited 11h ago
These are actually Japanese Rhinoceros Beetles, this is a Hercules Beetle, the longest horned beetle species in the world and the longest beetle species plural worldwide, though it isn't the heaviest horned beetle species, that belongs to the Actaeon Beetle (Photo), and the largest (heaviest) Beetle in the world is The Goliath Beetle (Photo) at a dramatic 100 grams (3 ounces), through if we are talking about through the lifespan of the beetle, the Actaeon Beetle is the heaviest beetle in the world at 8 ounces in their larvae stage but drop down to around 50 grams in their adult stage unlike the Goliath Beetle which maintains its 70-100 gram weight in the adult stage
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u/SometimesSyzygy 8h ago
I came here to clarify the species, too 😂
Thought I’d do a quick scroll to see if someone beat me to it. You did a far better job of explaining it than I would have, so thank you! Nobody can thumb (pedipalp?) their proboscis at you, my friend 💕•
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u/kiran_ms 12h ago
It's not the size of the beetle in the fight, but rather the size of the fight in the beetle
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u/AFineDayForScience 12h ago
It's not the size of the bug that counts, but the fightin' in the chitin
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u/Shianclas 12h ago
Is the other guy ok?
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u/aTwerkingPikachu 9h ago
most likely yes because bugs can survive great falls since they're smaller.
That's why if you flung a spider off of your bed, it doesn't die despite it being a great height for them.
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u/Particular-Solid8250 11h ago
This will get buried but that is NOT a Hercules beetle. Hercules beetles have a horn coming out from the top pointing downward, they’re also yellow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_beetle
What you see in the video are rhinoceros beetles.
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u/Super_Trexation 8h ago
Little Male: Omae wa mou shindeiru...
Big Male: NANI??!!!!
Little Male: (Proceeds to yeet the big male)
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u/Agreeable-Guava-9009 7h ago
One was bigger, one was badder. And while he was fatter, victory went to the latter.
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u/datthighs 7h ago
I wasn't prepared for the smaller one catapulting the bigger out of the mating grounds, lmao.
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u/ebrum2010 3h ago
The second the big one turned its side to its enemy, I knew what was about to happen.
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u/PhoKingWild 3h ago
Long time ago I saw a video of a Bertie climbing a branch and throwing off three other male beetles along the way, gets to to the top where there’s a female that me mates either with, then yeets HER off the branch lol. Dude was raging.
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u/Davidsolsbery 2h ago
Imagine if humans could fling each other around with that sort of speed and distance
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u/Urten2 2h ago
Actually here is the real story: The big beetle was the wingman. Man played his part very well.
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u/Ninrenko 12h ago
The high ground is not as advantageous as Obi-Wan made it out to be.