i sthlammed my penisth in the car door

The crabs will force the anemones to clone themselves if one dies OR steal others’ anemones if both die

They haven’t found these anemones in their free-living form, so, as far as we know, this anemone species is these crabs’ slave species—it’s only known in association with pom pom crabs

Cool paper on this: Schnytzer, Y., Giman, Y., Karplus, I., & Achituv, Y. (2017). Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft. PeerJ, 5, e2954. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2954

Their anemones aren’t a unique species, they are only visually distinct because the crab farms them in a very specific way - making a fragment of a larger hawaiian anemone, or finding a newly spawned one. When they carry it around, they force the anemone to adapt to an entire new lifestyle. The crab’s nocturnal behavior slowly kills the anemone’s photosynthetic symbionts, from which it gets its color. After that, the crab can control how much food the anemone actually gets by using it to mop up food off the sea floor, and take excess out of its mouth. Since it doesnt have to reach for sunlight, or reach to catch food, this encourages dense, but short tentacles.

The shortcoming of this study was just that its very hard to get the anemone away from the crab without killing both, and its equally hard to get an anemone to bounce back from this state.

Now, I have a cat of my own. Within a few days of having him, he figured out on his own that I cannot hear him.

So now he taps me to get my attention. He’s got a whole system.

One tap: I want your attention. (Will follow with other signals)

Two taps: That food you have? I want some.

One long drag: Follow me (non-urgent)

Two long drags: Follow me (urgent)

One short drag: That thing you’re doing? Stop it.

Two+ short drags: I need to toilet. (Number increases with urgency)

Stands like a meerkat: Pick me up.

He’s great. He reminds me when it’s time to feed him, and he always wants me to eat with him. He also wants to go to bed at what he feels is a decent hour.

He has me so well trained.

He also listens to me too! He’ll sit, come, jump onto my shoulder, wait to eat, bring me his toy, wear a harness, wear a raincoat, walk on a leash, ride in a carseat, and willingly take a medicine capsule. He knows ‘leave it’, ‘finished’, ‘climb up’, and ‘show me’.

He alerts me to sounds, like alarms going off, someone knocking on the door, and sudden unfamiliar noises. One time there was loud thunder, enough my deaf ass could hear it, and he went up to the window and put his paws on it, then looked back at me. I let him know it was safe and he’s never reacted to thunder since.

He’s nine months old right now, and he’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.

try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.