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when the autism is being an actual mental health problem instead of making me obsess over fictional characters again:
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This is not the same but Japanese Macaques (they’re monkeys) keep deer as pets and ride them around and also *RIDE* them around as in Hump them. Thank you scishow tangents for this info.
Wait, which animals raise livestock?
Several species of ants will 'herd' aphids around (a type of plant lice)- even picking them up and putting them back with the group if they wander off. The ants will attack anything that approaches their aphid herds, defending them. The aphids produce a sugary excretion called honeydew, which the ants harvest and eat.
Some ants will even 'milk' the aphids, stroking the aphids with their antennae, to stimulate them to release honeydew. Some aphids have become 'domesticated' by the ants, and depend entirely on their caretaker ants to milk them.
When the host plant is depleted of resources and dies, the ants will pick up their herd of aphids and carry them to a new plant to feed on - a new 'pasture' if you will.
Some ants continue to care for aphids overwinter, when otherwise they'd die. The ants carry aphid eggs into their own nests, and will even go out of their way to destroy the eggs of aphid-predators, like ladybugs.
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Microhylids – or narrow-mouthed frogs - have an interesting symbiosis with Tarantulas.
While the spiders could very easily kill and eat the much-tinier frogs, and DO normally prey on small frogs, young spiders instead will use their mouthparts to pick up the microhylid frogs, bring them back to their burrow, and release them unharmed.
The frog benefits from hanging out in/around the burrow of the tarantula, because the tarantula can scare away or eat predators that normally prey on tiny frogs, like snakes, geckos, and mantids. The tarantula gets a babysitter.
Microhylid frogs specialize in eating ants, and ants are one of the major predators of spider eggs. By eating ants, the frogs protect the spider's eggs. The frogs can also lay their eggs in the burrow, and won't be eaten by the spider.
So it's less 'livestock' and more like a housepet - a dog or a cat. You stop coyotes/eagles from hurting your little dog/cat, and in return the dog/cat keeps rats away from your baby.
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Damselfish grow algae on rocks and corals. They defend these gardens ferociously, and will attack anything that comes too close - even humans. They spend much of their time weeding the gardens, removing unwanted algaes that might overtake their crop.
The species of algae that they cultivate is weak and and sensitive to growing conditions, and can easily be overgrazed by other herbivores. That particular algae tends to grow poorly in areas where damselfish aren't around to protect and farm it.
Damselfish will ALSO actively protect Mysidium integrum (little shrimp-like crustacians) in their reef farms, despite eating other similarly sized invertebrates. The mysids are filter feeders, who feed on zooplankton and free-floating algae, and their waste fertilizes the algae farms. Many types of zooplankton can feed on the algae crop, and the mysids prevent that.
While Mysids can be found around the world, the only place you'll find swarms of Musidium integrum is on the algae farms that Damselfish cultivate.
Damselfish treat the little mysids like some homesteaders treat ducks. Ducks eat snails and other insect pests on our crops, and their poop fertilizes the land. The ducks can be eaten, but aren't often, since they're more useful for their services than their meat.
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There are SEVERAL species of insect and animal which actively farm. They perform fungiculture and horticulture: deliberately growing and harvesting fungus and plants at a large-scale to feed their population.
Leaf-cutter ants and Termites both chew up plant material and then seed it with a specific type of fungus. The fungus grows, and the termites/ants harvest the mushroom as a food source.
Ambrosia beetles burrow into decaying trees, hollow out little farming rooms, and introduce a specific fungii (the ambrosia fungi), which both adults and larval beetles feed on.
Marsh Periwinkles (a type of snail) cultivates fungus on cordgrass. They wound the plant with their scraping tongue, then defecate into the wound so their preferred fungus will infect it and grow there. They let the fungus grow in the wound a bit, and come back later to eat.
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The door of the beis midrash slammed open.
All the men turned back curiously.
In the doorway stood the Red Hood.
“Don’t mind me gentleman. ” Red Hood drawled. “It’s been brought to my attention that an Ari Satz was seen coming in here.”
Several men gulped as Red hood strode into the room.
“ Now, I’m sure this was a misunderstanding, because certainly such tzadikim as yourselves would not harbor a get refuser in your midst.” Red Hood said; he leaned on a shtender, rocking it forward.
“Why would a meshugas like you care?” a man muttered. Red Hood swerved, his helmet facing the now cowering man.
“Aw, bitter you ain’t getting any cuz of the mikveh strike? Maybe you should talk to your rabbis about Volvy Berkowitz, hmmm?”
“Anyway, if anyone sees Ari Satz, I wanna know. And if anyone here was thinking of helping him….” Hood surveyed the room. “I’m gonna find out, and it won’t be pretty.”
Red Hood straightened and walked back to the ajar door.
“Shalom Aleichem, gentlemen” the Red Hood said; and then he was gone.
“Since when is Red Hood a yid?”
#Baruch HaShem#this is so funny#also this is absolutely jam packed with references and I sent it to some goy friends completely forgetting what is and isn’t common knowl
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people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny
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As a disabled and chronically ill person "Thank You G-d, who has made me in Your image." is infinitely more affirming and comforting for me than the variation that goes, "...who has made me according to Your will."
It's not that G-d intentionally gave me a body that causes me to suffer because They will it to fulfil some greater purpose.
It's that my body, even as sick and weathered as it is, is a living breathing reflection of the Divine.
Reminding me that my disabled and chronically ill body is sacred too.
#I like according to your will also#I like the idea of HaShem desiring disability#HaShem cultivating crip futures#as kafer calls it#that HaShem made me crip and queer because HaShem desires a world full of crips and queers
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you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.
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I'm built different. like incorrectly i think
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i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal
#so real#and I also think ignoring the things that suck about the thing you love#flattens and cheapens the relationship between you and the thing
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being alive is so fucking scary but god do i love to love!!!! i love to love!!! i was put here to love. so much of life is so uncertain and unpredictable. but my love will be constant if i let it.
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Why are people acting like another Trump administration couldn't possibly have any lasting consequences, when we're still dealing with the aftermath of the Reagan administration now.
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