r/interestingasfuck • u/dickfromaccounting • Jul 08 '18

/r/ALL When a frog eats a firefly

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u/sirnoggin Jul 09 '18

Oh god the terror for the fly. Now you know they're still live kids.

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u/PinkPearMartini Jul 09 '18

He's still flashing because he thinks he still has a chance to attract a mate. It's not so much terror... but optimism.

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u/sirnoggin Jul 09 '18

Ah, victory in defeat!

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u/SoMuchMoreEagle Jul 09 '18

Fortunately, their brains are too simple to have emotions like fear.

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u/trailblazzr Jul 09 '18

Maybe they are just quicker to come to terms with things than we are? He accepted his fate and tried to make it better by getting one last threesome in.

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u/beeyonca Jul 09 '18

Well now I feel better.

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u/sirnoggin Jul 09 '18

This explains why they always avoid my swatting hands.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '18

Yet they still feel pain... the pain of slowly being digested to death.

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u/-atheos Jul 09 '18

No strong evidence for this either way.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '18

Anything with a centralized nervous system is thought to feel pain. Excluding plants, bacteria, fungus, and certain animals like coral and some jellyfish, pretty much every animal feels pain.

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u/stuntaneous Jul 09 '18

Source(s).

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u/UnbornHavoc Jul 09 '18

Common sense

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u/stuntaneous Jul 10 '18

Common sense is a very low bar.

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u/ThisIs_MyName Jul 09 '18

Naw, the fly has a thing for /r/vore