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• maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kinda:

  Costasiella kuroshimae are capable of a physiological process called kleptoplasty, in which they retain the chloroplasts from the algae they feed on. Absorbing the chloroplasts from algae then enables them to indirectly perform photosynthesis.[6]

  Source: Costasiella kuroshimae

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  • Faresh@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And Im pretty sure there are also jellyfish that live in symbyosis with algae that they carry along with them which photosynthesize, creating sugars for the jellyfish.

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    • frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reminds me of Lichen! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen

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  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So vampire photosynthesis.

    That’s metal af.

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    • CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or rogue photosynthesis.

      Also metal af

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  • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean honestly? If you’re not even keeping full cells from the prey, I think we can give it to them. Lil guy, you can photosynthesize. No need to bother them with the asterisks.

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  • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The really interesting thing about costasiella kuroshimae is that its digestive system branches and goes up into all of those ‘leaves’, which is how the algae makes its way there to have its chloroplasts extracted.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    kleptoplasty

    I like how it’s appropriate to call it “-plasty” twice (first in the referring to chloroplasts sense, and then again in the plastic surgery sense).

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  • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So it’s MegaMan?

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a god damn Pokemon.

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      YES

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• Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Before you fantasize how this could be used in humans in the future, producing that single thought cost more energy than leaf sheep produce via photosynthesis in their lifetime - feeding of it requires energy efficiency any warm-blooded animal just isn’t suited for.

  Still cute though.

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  • SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not chlorophyll, but retinol. Purple solar powered humanoids.

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    • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The human of the future:

      Image

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Instead of turning sunlight into sugars, what if we turned it into meth?

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• C126@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pass. Charmader would wreck this guy.

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  • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I doubt that seeing is how this thing lives in the ocean

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Charmander is a great driving force of global warming, this poor thing will be extinct in the blink of a great many eyes.

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    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed, this feels like a water pokemon that can learn solar beam/solar blade, absorb, giga drain, etc.

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    • C126@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol, grass types live in the forest.

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    RIght? Was literally in the middle of calling it a Pokemon when I saw this.

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• cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  they aren’t the only animal that does it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty#Animals

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• lettruthout@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It looks like it was designed by Aardman Animations.

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  • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s Shaun the Slug!

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• toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Leafsheep!!!

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hmmm?

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• StarshotJohn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like the head gear piece my shaman wore in wow a long time ago

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• sozesoze@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks more like it has a cows face. Like in cartoons. Two tiny black eyes close together and big nostrils far apart

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• CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shaun???

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• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Screw the Leaf Sheep. It’s all about the North American House Hippo.

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  • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t talk about my mother like that.

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• lemmur@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Symbiotic cyanobacteria?

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• CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cool, now I know how to call my spaceship in the next space game I’m gonna play.

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