• theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m no scientist but I’d say, “Do it reproduce? Do it evolve? Do it try to survive? Bruh, it’s alive.”

    I’m no scientist though. Just an idiot watching thangs. :p

    • Shard@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It seems to fail the last criteria there. They don’t actively escape or react to predation. For the most part they aren’t actively “trying” anything other than to just float around and replicate.