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"Disco Clam" Lights Up To Scare Predators Away
sciencehabit writes When predators get close, the bright, orange-lipped "disco clam" flashes them to scare them off. But it's not just the light that's important. Researchers have found that the clam has sulfur in its fleshy lips and tentacles and suspect that, like another clam species that drop tentacles laden with sulfuric acid to deter predators, the disco clam's sulfur also gets converted into a distasteful substance. The flashing may warn predators away, similar to the bright orange of a monarch butterfly warning birds of its toxic taste.
Title at Science Magazine where the video is posted: "'Disco clam' lights up to scare predators away". From the article "The clams, which live off Indonesia, flash twice as much when they spot predators". Somehow, the title does not seem inconsistent with the findings. Maybe folks should read the content before commenting on it.
A brain is a terrible thing to waste... Mind? That's debatable.
Because by forcing you to enable JavaScript to view their content they get more options for trying to serve you some ads and tracking you as well? If there's not an obvious "print view" or some other workaround I generally respond by just voting with my feet and closing the tab because I'm not going to be enabling JavaScript on a random site unless it's for content I *really* want to see. I suppose you could also get pissy about it because it's highly unlikely that such sites would comply with things like disability legislation requirements for screen reader compatibility and the like, but that's too much effort for me.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
You snark ... but that page has 11 scripts from itself, 1 from assets.adobetm.com, 1 from brightcove, 1 from apis.google.com, 1 from ajax.google.com, and one from platform.twitter.com.
The amount of shit which comes in the form of Javascript is mind boggling .. let alone all of the web bugs and beacons for the assholes who run the analytics companies.
Basically they intentionally write their pages so they pretty much don't work unless you're allowing the other crap to run. So, yes, I think the GP has a perfectly valid point. You don't need javascript to display the basic text of your story or do your page layout.
It's just garbage written by lazy people who are beholden to advertising companies.
Fortunately, with enough plugins, you can block this crap
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