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Full Body 2 - "wonder limit"

deathly curious how good the average tumblr user is at distinguishing dinosaur skulls from non dinosaur skulls

[ID: a digital drawing of many different animals and plants in a simple style in grey, including opossum, owl, snake, seal, panther, chicken, monkey, bat, turtle, squid, scorpion, frog, penguin, jellyfish, and more. they surround the words "every other being is as real as i am" in light blue capital letters. end.]

Why am I me and not someone else? Does everything have its own "me"? Living beings see from only their own perspective, but we can observe our fellow beings and imagine - what is it like to exist as a cat or an oak tree? They're all out there having their own experience of existence that I could never come close to understanding with human senses. But does that mean those experiences are less important than mine? Maybe from my own perspective, presumably not from theirs.

This is, as the name and appearance implies, an endoparasitic plant, that had specialised for growing inside the tissues of mammals. Initially a legume that used mammals to spread its seeds by attaching its fruit to their skin and fur, it has now lost most of its specialised tissues, with the main "body" of the plant consisting of mycelium like filaments that grow in between the animal cells, often alongside interstitial fluid pathways and blood vessels; and the only macroscopic part remaining are the reproductive organs, with flowers with sharp serrated ridges that help them exit the skin to flower.

The flowers are not very specific when it comes to pollinators, but they are selective as to which animals spread their seeds. After pollination, the external part of the flower dies, and as the ovary matures, it starts to exit the skin through the open wound, and then it ripens, opening to reveal a plethora of seeds covered in a thick mucilage. The open wound attracts flies, which get the seeds stuck to their legs, and then fly to the open wounds or mucosal membranes of other animals, planting the seed in the perfect spot for a new infection.

ANTLION!!!