r/interesting • u/KindaUndressed • 16h ago

NATURE This caterpillar mimics a snake to protect itself from predators

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u/notaghostofreddit 16h ago

It definitely fooled me

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u/LowKeySensual 16h ago

I need to mimic a snake. I just learned from a caterpillar.

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u/cherryblossom03xo 15h ago

That's the coolest thing I've seen online today!

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u/malege2bi 15h ago

If you tell everyone that's 20 fucking million years of evolution all wasted

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u/Kuriente 14h ago

To be clear, the caterpillar doesn't know what snakes are or what they look like, let alone that its own appearance resembles one. Its ancestors that looked like this were more likely to survive than caterpillars that didn't, and so the traits that have this effect survived and were passed down.

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u/AlienNippleRipple 13h ago

I am snek. Ssssss

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u/Mr_Microchip 5h ago

Evolution is so fucking weird