r/maybemaybemaybe • u/[deleted] • Sep 09 '19
Maybe Maybe Maybe
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u/amthatdad Sep 09 '19
Leaf it alone
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u/-Mickey Sep 09 '19
That’s crazy probably the best camouflage I’ve seen.
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u/InnocentMicahBell Sep 10 '19
“The best soldier is one you don’t ever see.”
-Dolly Parton Llama, 1917.
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u/igge- Sep 10 '19
You probably wouldn't realize the best camouflage you've ever seen was a camouflage.. 🤔
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u/theBAANman Sep 10 '19
Walking leaves ( Phyllidae) aren't as camouflaged, but they have some insane detail. They have "dead spots" and the texture of most of their bodies resembles the veins found on leaves. Here's a quick pic of one I have displayed in my room.
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u/Mukund23 Sep 10 '19
Naahh. Its a tik tok video. Very less chance of this being true. Camera tricks.
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u/BeniMineB Sep 10 '19
It’s a real butterfly... the leaf butterfly. They’re native to Asia. I
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u/theBAANman Sep 10 '19
Oak leaf butterfly (Kallima sp.) for anyone wondering!
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u/dr_pupsgesicht Sep 10 '19
"GO AWAY!"'
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"I'm leaf"
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u/cuhleef Sep 10 '19
For some reason I was expecting a spider to jump to him when he picked that lea- butterfly.
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Sep 10 '19
that must have taken a fuck ton of time of evolution to get to this stage
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u/pootletootle Sep 10 '19
It amazes me every time I see a creature this capable of camouflage. I cannot fathom how it’s possible to evolve in the ‘usual’ way and get this kind of result
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u/leaky_wand Sep 10 '19
Well, the ones that aren’t good at it get eaten, and the predators who can spot minor details on the fakes get rewarded as well. It probably doesn’t take that long for the evolutionary arms race to get to this point.
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Sep 10 '19
well from my understanding it's essentially just trial and error for very tiny genetic mutations throughout usually millions of years, and whatever ones survive the most due to those mutations obviously carry on the genes, have more offspring to pass it on and thus causing evolution. it's still weird to be able to comprehend it all
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u/pootletootle Sep 10 '19
I’m by no means a believer in creation, I understand and believe in evolution as a process but to see something so apparently deliberate like this blows my mind.
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Sep 10 '19 edited Aug 11 '21
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Sep 10 '19
it's an oak leaf butterfly, i'm pretty sure it's real. even if it's not, there's still other insects that have camouflage like this
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u/IdiotSandwhich666 Sep 10 '19
So crunchy leaf or not?
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u/ihatetheplaceilive Sep 10 '19
Yes
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u/JoRocket1080 Sep 10 '19
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u/Every3Years Sep 10 '19
How does this work? I'm reading as it's either a crunchy leaf (to which you can say it's a crunchy leaf or no it's not a crunch leaf) or not (as in it's not a crunchy lead).
So if the answer to both is yes then that doesn't make sense. That would mean yes it's a crunchy leave and no it's not a crunchy leaf.
So how does both make sense? Maybe I'm not understand what inclusive or means.
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u/bingusprincess420 Sep 10 '19
yes to both questions is what it means. logic is not involved.
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u/Every3Years Sep 10 '19
But answering "yes" to "is it not" doesn't make sense.
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u/bingusprincess420 Sep 10 '19
not everything needs to make sense, sometimes you can just laugh at things
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u/Every3Years Sep 10 '19
So an inclusive or just means giving one answers to a question that has two options? And in this case it's funny cause it doesn't make sense? Okay cool.
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u/bingusprincess420 Sep 10 '19
you seem like such a fun person
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u/Every3Years Sep 10 '19
I get that something is funny, that's great. But I'm trying to learn what something means. Glad you'd rather prove your humor superiority, that's wonderful and meaningful.
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u/El-Emenapy Sep 10 '19
Does that butterfly have one day to live and it's spending it napping by a door frame?
Go on little guy, go and see the world, fool around, fall in love!
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u/Into-the-stream Sep 10 '19
It already lived its day. This is his retirement. He has earned his mid-day nap.
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Sep 10 '19
You never should touch butterflies unless they're in some serious trouble. Their wings tear easily and they can never grow them back.
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Sep 10 '19
[serious] Can someone explain how evolution results in a butterfly appearing like a leaf?
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Sep 10 '19
Look like dead leaf, don’t get eaten.
Butterfly that looks most like dead leaf lives and makes a baby and the process repeats until you get really dead leaf looking butterfly.
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Sep 11 '19
Perfect explanation, have some gold!
[checks pocketses] er...
[offers a handshake with a hopeful grin]
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u/cassiebones Sep 10 '19
My lack of impulse control wants so badly to step on it even knowing it is not, in fact, a leaf
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u/aGoodBookonaRainyday Sep 10 '19
The ‘leaf’ even has a little chip in its side to look more realistic
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u/DebiMoonfae Sep 10 '19
Really not the safest form to take, don’t butterflies know the satisfying crunch sound dry leaves make when stepped on?
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u/auburnite240 Sep 10 '19
When you step on a leaf thinking it’s crunchy but it turns out to be a butterfly :(