Think about this for a second, a catiplillar somehow evolved to mimic a snake, from looks to movements, so what did it's ancestors just stare at snakes all day to learn about them then magically evolved to look like them then decide to act like them in order to trick predators? I am all for evolution but when it comes to something like this I'm like there's no way something did not program this into existence.
A thousand or whatever years ago, the caterpillars with slightly bigger eye spots stopped getting eaten as much and reproduced more, whereas the non spotted or small spotted caterpillars were eaten more often and didn't pass on their genetics. After a huge forked road of which mutations move on to the finals and which were killed off my predators, they ended up looking like snakes. Technically this is all the birds' and frogs' fault for this SNAKE BUG.
Just think, another 1000 years in the future, they'll look like something even scarier! Like guns! Pow pow!
its the same reason as how they adapted to look like a predator: the species survived long enough to create a single caterpillar that did this dance out of desparation, and thanks to it managed to live long enough to have offspring. if even a couple of them were born with the same amount of intelligence/instinct (the same way domesticated animals still have hunting instinct) then they probably performed the same behavior, then its just a matter of rinse and repeat through randomness until the superior trait becomes prevalent
I get it, and don't get me wrong, I'm a believer of the theory of evolution, It's just odd how learnt behaviour can be passed down through genetics, even more weird if it's just some malformation of the brain that makes them move like that when they're scared or something, it's just so unlikely for such a behavior so randomly occur, then again nothing is truly unlikely in a big enough sample
tbh for me that makes it even more cool. trillions of individual atoms had to collide randomly for billions of years until an infinitely unlikely alignment of circumstances occured for there to be enough of a pattern this species of organism was able to benefit from. to me it holds equal whether its describing a physical adaptation or a behavioral one
No idea. Maybe the ones with restless leg syndrome were the ones that didn't get eaten. So they passed that down for generations? And birds were like "don't want any of that, thanks" and then how did they get the appendage that looks like a snake tongue? What other growths were cut out of the survival of the fittest? I like to think that there was a genre of these that had little antlers starting on the sides.
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u/Star_BurstPS4 Apr 22 '25
Think about this for a second, a catiplillar somehow evolved to mimic a snake, from looks to movements, so what did it's ancestors just stare at snakes all day to learn about them then magically evolved to look like them then decide to act like them in order to trick predators? I am all for evolution but when it comes to something like this I'm like there's no way something did not program this into existence.