Alien species discovers earth … “Holy shit Kang! These little bipeds are delicious! And all you have to do is support whatever community or belief they follow and they’ll go anywhere you tell them”
99% is pretty impressive, most species have 100% mortality rate
“Caterpillar” is not a species. It’s a stage of some animals’ life cycle. It means 99% of catepillars die before they become butterflies or moths or whatever
That’s an interesting point!
Any animal that changes or metamorphosises into a different animal technically has a less than 100% mortality rate
Hmm, interesting indeed! I get what you’re trying to say, but I would also tend to believe that it’s still the same animal? If not that, then wouldn’t the caterpillar cease to exist when it metamorphosised into something else?
I would also lean closer towards ‘same animal’ but its physical morphology undergoes such drastic changes its definitely blurred lines
Psychologically I think there are tests that show butterflies and moths retain memories from pre-metamorphisis stages
Metaphysical questions are so cool just because we may never be able to answer them!!!
caterpillars on that 3σ-get-eaten-set
Has anyone run them through HotDogNotHotDog app analysis? Maybe they’re not just nature’s hotdogs, and we’re missing out.
