Soooo, technical science question here, super high level, get ready for some Latin and Greek and $14 words:
Does it’s little face flaps get all flippy flappy because it’s excited/hungry? foraging response? breathing? Those flaps were really flipping and I’m just curious
How much flip could a flippy flappy flap if a flippy flappy could flappy flippy?
If this video is anything to go by, quite a lot.
That looks like a slow, pain filled, and horrible way to go.
Iirc clams don’t even have a nervous system. They and bivalves are sometimes described as sea vegetables.
Nature is metal af
This is not entirely unlike how HUMANS eat bloody CRABS.
Without ever being taught, the crab identfied that it’s food, not a rock, investigates for an opening, then uses leverage to open the clam.
Makes me wonder how much I actually think when it’s really just instinct.
And I thought that reaching the last Pringles was hard
Great, thanks, I’m afraid of crabs now
What’s the big deal? He’s just musseling in there.
Cool, THAT was PRETTY entertaining actually.
And if the clam is not bloody?
Like the world’s slowest shredder.
Life is so beautiful
