African Wild Dogs decide on when to go hunting by voting. If there is a supermajority of votes in favor of hunting, they will go out and hunt. If that quorum is not reached, they will stay home.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
72 points (96.2% liked)
Ask Lemmy
27253 readers
3437 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Dingo Suffrage is my new punk band name
That’s awesome! Maybe they should teach us some of their tricks…
How do they indicate yay or nah
I think it's quiet or sneeze
Another interesting fact: dogs also use sneezing to communicate, though not in the same way. I also easily trained my dogs to indicate yes or no by either licking their lips or not doing anything.
load more comments
(2 replies)
If you have two arms, you have a higher than average number of arms.
I've always thought the drummer from Leppard was below average
And if you have one skeleton in your body, you're below average.
Well now wait, if pregnant people have four (or more) arms, we’ve got to have more than half as many pregnant people as people missing one or more arms, right?
And what about the 5 arms I have in my freezer?
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
In the movie "Catch Me If You Can", the french police officer that arrests Leonardo DiCaprio who is playing a young Frank Abagnale Jr. Is Frank Abagnale Jr.
load more comments
(1 replies)
There is a giant hexagon on the north pole of Saturn.
It's more evidence that hexagons are the bestagons.
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
*are
The number of possible combinations of cards in a standard 52 card pack is so large that there is very little chance that any two packs of shuffled cards that have ever existed have ever been in the same order.
52 factorial is a larger number than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
I bet there are certain shuffled combinations that repeat. like, take a new deck, divide perfectly in half, do one perfect riffle. that has probably happened more than once.
Chess positions are like that too, after any "main line" it quickly becomes a never played game...
load more comments
(2 replies)
52 factorial is a larger number than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
Not true, 52! ≈ 8x10^67 < 10^80.
If you divided the universe's mass into 52! parts, each part would contain ~1x10^13 atoms. Which, as far as solids go, is not visible to the naked eye. Which is still quite mental..
How can we even know that?
The first part is a matter of probabilities. It's very unlikely by virtue of the sheer number of possible configurations vs how many times a deck is shuffled in history (even erring on the high side)
For the second part, the composition of elements in most stars is known. And the total mass of the universe is approximated by observing gravitational effects. Which is what you need to work out approx number of atoms.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Your lips and butthole are the two ends of the same tube. Same glaborous vermillion border type skin or something
load more comments
(2 replies)
On Titan, you could strap on wings and fly around.
Moreover, the atmosphere is >5% natural gas, but without oxygen you can't burn it. I suppose oxygen would be considered the fuel in that case and you'd pipeline that instead? And being able to breathe would be a nice side-benefit.
Kevin Spacey’s middle name is Spacey.
And that’s a rock fact.
For anyone else wanting to look this up: yep. His full name is Kevin Spacey Fowler. Not Kevin Spacey Spacey as I thought OP meant.
Who the fuck gives their kid a middle name of Spacey? No wonder he turned out weird.
Middle names are for messing around a bit
I think that is a very recent development.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Two pieces of matter cannot exist at the exact same place at the exact same time.
There was an X-Files book I read when I was about 10 which says otherwise.
Fermion condensate
load more comments
(1 replies)
Early cycling laws and rights predate the invention of the automobile by decades. So it is actually the car that is the invasive newcomer.
"If left in the sun, mayonnaise grows hair."
The hard part is getting the mayonnaise into the sun.
“If your bra is too tight, it's uncomfortable. If you're a boy and your bra is too tight, I'm uncomfortable.” — Lori Beth Denberg, All That