7/2/2023 0 Comments Natural phenomena examplesWhen the wasp arrives, it finds tons of other wasps already there, all with similarly infected brains. ![]() Then, Xenos vesparum does something pretty incredible: It relays directions to the wasp about a specific location, and instructs it to fly to there. First, it makes the host wasp become reclusive and shirk its responsibilities to the hive. Xenon vesparum‘s methods are a little different. One internet-famous example is Toxoplasma gondii, which alters rats brains so they’re attracted to the smell of cat urine. It’s not unheard of for a parasite species to manipulate the thinking of its host. Voila! Penitentes.Įvery spring, a fly larva called Xenos vesparum works its way into the body and brain of the European Paper Wasp. At that point, the curved surfaces actually help concentrate the heat of the sun, and accelerate the process, which eventually leaves a forest of six-foot ice spikes that look like they were designed by Antoni Gaudi. The way this works is the smooth snow surface develops small depressions as some regions randomly sublimate faster than others (since, as self esteem seminars world-over have taught you, all snowflakes are different). Sublimation means that the sun’s heat turns snow directly into vapor, without ever having made it liquid first. So what in the world causes them to occur?įirst, the air in the Andes is super dry. They can be as high as 2 to 5 meters tall they’re shaped like thin blades or pikes, which point in the direction of the sun and they’re not singular formations, either-there are fields and fields of them in the Andes. Penitentes are snow and ice structures that form in high-altitude areas, like the Andes, and were first observed and described by Charles Darwin. Mind you, I’m not in any way suggesting that Moroccan goats are planning a coordinated assault from above, all I’m saying is they have the capacity to plan that kind of assault because while they’ve been teaching themselves to climb trees (and, I assume, perform cool goat karate moves), we’ve all been vastly underestimating their intelligence. Now picture hundreds of trees like that, lining the breadth of the Moroccan desert, and hundreds of goats, suspended in the branches, waiting for the right moment to attack. That’s right, goats in Morocco graze in and climb on trees, which leads to the objectively hilarious image of about 12 full-sized adult goats sharing the branches of the same fairly small tree. While sheep, as a species, are duller than Ben Stein’s Antique Furniture Podcast, their less idiotic goat cousins have some surprising tricks up their tiny goat sleeves.Īpparently, goats are badasses-particularly the Moroccan tree goat, an animal that subsists on the berries and leaves of the Argan tree. I’ve talked a fair quantity of trash about sheep during my brief tenure here at The Portalist.
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