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Weird Animals
Topic Started: Aug 19 2013, 04:34 PM (34,630 Views)
Swimming Spaghetti Monster
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Aardvark727
Dec 22 2013, 11:13 AM
I read it, but he said a caterpillar mutant was born with claws instead of feet, grew, and bred. Everything sounds perfectly logical except MUTANTS CAN'T REPRODUCE. Ligers and zorses are both mutants, technically, and they can't breed. I refuse to debate this any longer as I don't want to start an argument and I got a warn for being "disrespectful." Let's just drop it. If you want to attempt to disprove me, shoot me a PM. I'll try my best to answer any questions.
I'm not gonna discuss with you about the evolution, I just want to say ligers and zorses are hybrids, not mutants.Mutants can reproduce.
Edited by Swimming Spaghetti Monster, Dec 22 2013, 11:17 AM.
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Captain Phasma
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Last thing xD A dwarf or Siamese twin cannot reproduce another dwarf or siamese twin. They can have sex and get prgnant, but they won't produce another dwarf orsiamese twin. That's what I meant.
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All those morphs, from budgerigars to guppies to leopard geckos to even ball pythons are actually mutants, and look at them breed to produce even more morphs.
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Swimming Spaghetti Monster
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Aardvark727
Dec 22 2013, 11:28 AM
Last thing xD A dwarf or Siamese twin cannot reproduce another dwarf or siamese twin. They can have sex and get prgnant, but they won't produce another dwarf orsiamese twin. That's what I meant.
I guess this explains everything?
http://genetics.thetech.org/ask/ask179
Not every mutation is the same.But we're clogging up the topic, if you have some doubts, PMing would be better.
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Jules
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Aardvark, do you know blonde hair is a mutation ?

EDIT : you are welcome to continue the debate. I will personally see that you don't get warned.
Edited by Jules, Dec 22 2013, 12:14 PM.
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Stephen
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Aardvark727
Dec 22 2013, 11:28 AM
Last thing xD A dwarf or Siamese twin cannot reproduce another dwarf or siamese twin. They can have sex and get prgnant, but they won't produce another dwarf orsiamese twin. That's what I meant.
They do have a higher chance though, which only gets higher as more generations pass. As those with the claws survive better, they will get most offspring and so on, until the species has evolved so much it can be considered a new one.

So, if being a dwarf or siamese twin would be an advantage, the human race would be all dwarves or siamese twins.
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Terrena Laxamentum
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Aardvark727
Dec 22 2013, 11:13 AM
I refuse to debate this any longer as I don't want to start an argument and I got a warn for being "disrespectful."
Then why did you bring up the topic in the first place?



Back on topic,

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This is the Blue-rayed Limpet, this limpet looks like a tiny alien space ship, but that's not the most interesting part of this species. In order to fight off it's main predator, the starfish, it slithers away to a certain distance, and then it rears up it's shell into what resembles a tiny glowy-glowy mushroom. It waits until the starfish comes closer, then the fight begins, the limpet starts scraping the starfish's arm until the starfish gives away or the limpet loses.

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This creature is the Prince Axel’s Wonder Fish. This animal that more resembles the creature featured in the movie "Dream Catcher" is family of the Deep Sea Angler Fish. The lure almost exactly resembles a small glowing fish, perfect for capturing, well, other fish. Like everything else in the Abyssal zone, it's extremely creepy but well suited to it's environment, welcome to one of my favorite habitats!
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Ignacio
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Dec 22 2013, 12:56 PM
Aardvark727
Dec 22 2013, 11:13 AM
I refuse to debate this any longer as I don't want to start an argument and I got a warn for being "disrespectful."
You didn't got a warn for debating, you got a warn because you compared being gay with being a murderer. I think that is being pretty disrespectful and rude to homosexual people. Plus someone reported you because of that. That is why you got the warn... not that i need to explain it again anyway.
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

- Dwarfism is a genetic trait. Most definitely, you can have people affected with it reproduce just fine, and they may or may not have children similarly statured, depending on which genes they and their partner carry.

- Siamese twins usually occur due to developmental issues, an egg that doesn't divide properly for example, and thus isn't usually genetic and so can't be passed on.

-Mutants - assuming natural mutations and not caused by pollution - can breed just fine. Everything on Earth today is a mutant, really, derived from animals far different that they resemble today, in many cases. Mutant now is just used to refer to an aberrant individual of some modern species with an atypical trait. A white peacock is a mutant. It's mutation is genetic. In nature, a white peacock would be seen and eaten and does not occur, but since humans find it pretty, we protect it and allow it to. Therefore, white peacocks survive and pass on their mutation. We see this in all domesticated animals, most notably dogs. Dogs, while the same species as wolves, are enormously different thanks to our selective breeding for traits we like, which is simply controlled evolution.

- Also, many hybrids can breed just fine. It depends on the degree of relation between the parent species. Most finches can all interbreed and produce fertile offspring, same with cichlid fishes, even ones that look nothing alike.
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Just saying, and I might be wrong here, but I think some scientists carried out an experiment in which they got several fly populations and put them in different controlled environments (like tropical, desert, etc) and gave them different food, and observed them for a year. At the end, the saw the differences in the once identical flies, effectively observing evolution. I may be wrong about the details, but I think it was along those lines
Edited by izzibob, Dec 22 2013, 04:54 PM.
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To me, humans will remain the weirdest animals. For a primate species, we're just so damn off. Mostly bald, but the present head hair grows to ridiculous lengths. Highly intelligent for a tetrapod, but also gullible and often lacking common sense (which should sort of be used to help us survive in the world we have shaped). Mostly longing for peace and comfort, but more than eager to destroy everything around.
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Terrena Laxamentum
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There is always something going on...

Aardvark727
Dec 22 2013, 11:13 AM
I read it, but he said a caterpillar mutant was born with claws instead of feet...


Uh, I never said that. I was just making fun of how creepy it looks. This thing is completely natural, not a freak of nature. The "claws" are legs, just specially adapted to better grab prey, as seen in the Gifs.
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MrGorsh
Dec 22 2013, 05:08 PM
To me, humans will remain the weirdest animals. For a primate species, we're just so damn off. Mostly bald, but the present head hair grows to ridiculous lengths. Highly intelligent for a tetrapod, but also gullible and often lacking common sense (which should sort of be used to help us survive in the world we have shaped). Mostly longing for peace and comfort, but more than eager to destroy everything around.
not to mention making active use of plants and such that are bad for the organism, despite knowing that well.
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Jules
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Terrena Laxamentum
Dec 22 2013, 05:10 PM
Aardvark727
Dec 22 2013, 11:13 AM
I read it, but he said a caterpillar mutant was born with claws instead of feet...


Uh, I never said that. I was just making fun of how creepy it looks. This thing is completely natural, not a freak of nature. The "claws" are legs, just specially adapted to better grab prey, as seen in the Gifs.
That was me, while explaining evolution :P
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I don't want to get involved in this discussion, so back on topic. That fish is creepy! x3
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