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    Well because of how “evolution” - it makes you produce more babies than the others that didn’t fuck and kill. So… That.

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      So… Why?

      E.g. does it drive predators away and their offspring has a higher chance of survival?

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        Animals that fuck more propagate their genes more. If they’re also violent, they’re probably taking out their competitors, and the non-violent ones are likely first to go.

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      Musk is a male asshole characterized by aggressive Nazi behavior and accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones.

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            I think the keyword filters are just for posts, at least for the client I’m using (Thunder). However I would love if comment filtering was a thing.

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              Some apps do have comment foltering by keywords such as Summit! (Disclaimer: I am the developer)

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                Interesting. I’m going to give it a try. I’ve been wanting something that has more powerful filtering capabilities.

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        Are you implying that he would be the most emotionally intelligent and empathetic animal on the planet, were it not for puberty?

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          He was doing really well before he met Trump in the white house for the first time. He was still an idiot, and apparently a Nazi, but he was very quiet about being a Nazi, and he was good at getting people excited for electric cars and space travel

  • The rhinoceros beetle says “check this slab of HOT bug SEX sitting before you upon a stick. My stick. No one else may perch upon my throne, my lair, my kingdom, lest they be smote upon the ground like so much errant detritus. I am a fucking god.” Sex appeal is weird across the animal kingdom.

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    elephant pregnancy lats 22 months

    makes sense that elephant psychosis would last longer too

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        Real reason is males are mostly solitary and elephant territories are enormous. Being horny for months gives the males enough motivation to seek out the herd of women and children over the long distances.

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        elephants have an unusually long gestation period (and not just for their size, whales are typically only pregnant for about 12 months) Researchers think its necessary to give their brains time to fully develop, of which they have the outright largest of any land mammal and a body-to-brain ratio that rivals our own.

        As for psychosis, I’ve been told that for people it typical lasts about a month from whatever triggers it. Maybe the bigger brain would mean it needs more time for the… psychosis(?)… to work through… whatever it’s doing? Honestly, it’s probably not whats happening with the elephants. They sounded superficially similar, so I made a glib comment about it.