All The Things

and how many deep-sea creatures evolved to be red as a stealth adaptation, making them near invisible when there’s little to no light present

and it makes me think. If there’s never any visible light present in these animals’ lifetimes, if no ROV shines a little flashlight in depths that would otherwise not have light, would these animals ever get the opportunity to actually be red? that might be a stupid question.

Like is color physiological and determined by the shape of whatever pigment cells that will always absorb certain wavelengths and reflect others?

or is color meaningless if there’s no light to absorb and reflect?

Is it completely relative because the way we percieve color is subjective, how even within our own species there are so many different kinds of ways people can observe color?

The stomiidae, which include the viperfish, dragonfish, and loosejaws, are one example of a deep sea animal that evolved to perceive and produce red light because it isn’t naturally present in their environment and most other organisms never hit on that adaptation. In most of this group, tiny red lights can be switched on and off throughout their skin to communicate with their own kind in secret. More threateningly, some of them have high-powered “floodlights” of pure red just beneath their eyes; almost no other deep sea fish emit actual BEAMS of light to illuminate what they’re looking at because that’d make them a shining beacon to every larger predator in the area, but since it’s red, the only risk ends up coming from their fellow red-light hunters and those remain just uncommon enough to be worth the chance. In many members of this group, most of all the loosejaws (hence the name), almost the entire skull can naturally detach from the rest of the body on specialized stalks at lightning speed so that their long, hooked jaws can grab prey in an instant, almost the same exact motion as the arm of a preying mantis:

You did not waste your year.

If you made it this far, that’s already not wasting your year.

You made it through the year, you laughed, you cried, you smiled, you saw the sun and felt the rain, and most importantly, you’re still here.

You did not waste your year.

DUDE.

YOU SURVIVED A MOTHERFUCKING 

PANDEMIC.

In contrast you have heritage breeds like the Wyandotte with is much smaller and takes longer to get to proper size but are generally MUCH healthier than the CornishX. They are also multi purpose birds as in they lay a good number of eggs in their life. Its why I, personally, intend to have a flock of them as soon as I can and ill never buy chicken from the store again.

They also taste much better and by that I mean they HAVE a taste. We are so used to the CornishX that its common for people to say “chicken doesn’t have a distinct flavor of its own” but that is FAR from true. Its just the rate factor birds build muscle just squeezes out any proper flavor. Get a taste of a farm raised bird thats been loved and given room to grow and be a chicken and you’ll just cry having to go back to store bought.

As for the egg industry, why my lord dont get me started. The funny thing is, there are industry lines and non industry lines of the same breed of eggers. Industry Leghorns lay SOOOO many eggs its not even funny and they burn out FAST. But non industry Leghorns, while still highly productive, are much less so and they can live long happy lives. Its almost to a point you you could claim they are totally separate breeds!

There is also something to be said for local foods and I dont just mean in support of the community or even sticking it to a corporation. Local grown plants and animals will be exposed to the same, for lack of a better word, stuff as you are. Its like, if you have severe allergies to pollen you can train your system to be less reactive by eating honey made exclusively in your area because its made from that same pollen. The same can be said for other local foods in a way.

Human: … Spin?

However, they only have teeth on thier bottom jaw!  they have corresponding holes in their top jaw for the teeth to lock into, which makes hanging onto a slippery, boneless squid:

It should be noted that the human here isn’t in particular danger of being eaten on purpose, but an accidental swing of it’s multi-ton head, a clip from the teeth, or being directly in the line of it’s sonar could seriously injure or kill them- Divers that have been in the direct line of echolocation for a sperm whale calf have described being hit with the soundwave like “being kicked by a horse” and some have suffered internal organ damage.  Sperm whales, like other large whales, aren’t particularly aggressive towards humans, but they are still very large wild animals who behave in unpredictable ways.

Apparently this is roughly what we’d look like, if our eyes could see in a different spectrum:

Dunno about you, but I want to use this in a story someday.  Aliens can see our stripes and we can’t!  Magical transformations follow Blaschko’s Lines!  A subtle sign of lycanthropy is darker hair there!  Wizards are bald with that cool spiral on their heads!