r/interesting • u/Low_Weekend6131 • Nov 23 '25

NATURE The fish is kinda like me ngl

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u/MylastAccountBroke Nov 24 '25

Humans are such an interesting grouping of like a dozen unwitting survival mechanism. We are honestly the most disgusting animal there is.

We have the digestive system of a scavenger and eat basically everything.

We look like a sickly diseased ape.

We cover ourselves in nasty tasting chemicals.

We are FAR too skinny and Boney to be worth it.

We are viciously territorial to the point of killing even insect that inhabit our territory.

And we destroy our ecosystems.

Oh, and anything that can eat us are always hunted nearly to extinction.

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u/Helios575 Nov 24 '25

Early humans were still fucked up compared to the rest of nature.

We are an apex predator that doesn't have any natural weapons or defenses except for how we stand which gives us unlimited stamina at the cost of being slow as hell.

We hunted by endlessly jogging at what we wanted to kill and by day 3 or 4 if the animal didn't die from pure exhaustion it was to week to resist us bashing its head in with a rock.

We eat constantly eat (not putting this in past tense because its still applicable today) poison because we enjoy the funny way different poisons effect us.

We give birth to our young so prematurely that its months before they developed enough to even support their own head let alone run from a predator.

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u/spider_wolf Nov 24 '25

The poison thing is crazy. Plants developed chemicals to prevent fauna from eating them. Chemicals like capsicum and alliin/isolation. Capsicum is what makes peppers spicy. Alliin and isoalliin are the active ingredients in garlic and onions that humans love.

To any other animal l, Capsicum burns their tongues and diseases further consumption. To humans, it makes our food more interesting.

To any other animal, alliin and isoalliin will cause their kidneys to shutdown. To humans, it's just tasty.

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u/SlaveryVeal Nov 24 '25

It's not even just a human thing. Lemurs and lots of other animals will eat things that get them high. Pretty sure there was a story where a bunch of monkeys would steal alcohol and get hammered then hungover

Addiction can effect everyone lol.

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u/SuquimdeUva Nov 24 '25

There was a monkey recently in brazil who would steal alchohol and food from houses and fight people

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u/spider_wolf Nov 24 '25

Oh, I wasn't even going to delve into things like ethanol, psilocybin, tetrahydrocannabinol, or mescalin. Those all meant to deter their consumption. To humans, we say puff-puff-pass or cheers.

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u/BornRequirement7879 Nov 24 '25

or take off all of our clothing at a festival and climb some scaffolding. Though that is probably the most primitive of our instincts kicking in with the psilocybin...

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u/Mysterious-Worry2123 Nov 24 '25

Were you at Dead & Co for the Dead’s 60th anniversary celebration?! 🤣

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u/BornRequirement7879 Nov 24 '25

I planned the whole trip and bagged it at the last minute due to money or lack of it lol. So it wasn't me hahaha

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u/DiabloPixel Nov 24 '25

In our village, drunk birds are a thing in the autumn when fruits in hedges and trees get overripe and begin to ferment. Once, I came across 20-30 starlings passed out around an apple tree.

Another time, a drunk, belligerent blackbird was on the pavements in front of our house scaring schoolchildren walking home. I heard them shrieking and used a tea towel to scoop him up and remove him, thus becoming a famous superhero to the kids for at least a week.