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bogleech

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I mentioned a while back that an animal’s parasites are an overlooked part of what makes them unique; people think about what foods their favorite animals eat or their defenses or their calls but hardly ever appreciate the things that live on them. I think another cool example of that are these parasitic snails dailyparasite talked about - they’re totally unique to mantis shrimp! It’s not even normal for other kinds of crustaceans to have parasitic snails, but mantis shrimp do, and they’re related to non-parasitic snails that just harmlessly share mantis shrimp burrows, so that tells you how this came about in their evolution!

These snails have separate sexes, with smaller males and larger females, and they form monogamous pairs that live permanently on the same shrimp!

bogleech

Forgot to even mention how mantis shrimps are also monogamous so you can have two married bug dragons and each can be home to two married vampire mollusks and that’s real, that’s our actual planet

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mayflower-gal asked:

Hi! First of all, thank you so much for the work that you do- I think it's really important. I would like to know the organization's status on Miette, and what you predict will happen with the population going forward.

meme-conservation answered:

Miette

Conservation status: Least Concern

Classification: non-native, non-invasive

Miette, while no longer a young meme, remains robust and diverse throughout the tumblr ecosystem. The pattern of Miette’s growth is somewhat unusual in that the meme has increased in popularity over time rather than following the population-boom-and-decay model most common for memes.

Experts predict that this trend could continue, permeating the entire ecosystem and ultimately leading to a linguistic shift, or a substantial increase in average jail sentences.

astonishedowl

you CLASSIFY miette? you evaluate her population like the frog? oh! oh! jail for conservation account! jail for conservation account for One Thousand Years!!!!"