Tell your children not to walk my way…
Mother
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 year ago
This motherquokka…
owl@infosec.pub 1 year ago
You motherquokka, I wanted to comment that!
NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s why Bambi was about a deer not a quokka
RQG@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Motherquokka!
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Kangaroos do the same. To be fair, evolutionarily it makes sense.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I bet in pre-history it happened more often than not in humans, and within recorded history has likely happened more times than anyone would admit.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
eeeh our whole evolutionary niche is to be so social that we’ll form bonds with a literal rock, i can’t see the vast vast vast majority of mentally healthy humans managing to do it, more likely they’d try to gently throw the child away from the danger and sacrifice themselves.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
After the predator instantly becomes enamored with the adorable baby quokka, and calls her own kids over to play.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 1 year ago
Humans do this too during war time
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Not really on any significant scale.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
/s?
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Johnathan Swift would have a field day with this.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
So would Lrrr, ruler of the Planet Omicron Persei 8.
tajunta@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
Why am I feeling a bit proud that I got the reference? 😄
criitz@reddthat.com 1 year ago
That’s one bad mother quakka
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t get what the fuss is about, I would do it too. And you can always make more later. /s
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
you can always make more later
It’s true, I just threw the equivalent population of a small country in the bin. Can’t say I’m not pleased with myself rn. 😌
mEEGal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Improvise, adapt, overcome
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year ago
, yeet.
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
And not as a survival strategy when threatened. For fun, and then they laugh (see attached pictures).
Obviously /s, they’re adorable.
Lemmist@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Being alive is good!
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Citation needed /s
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 year ago
This is how I feel today.