Nature you've done it again.

[bgmnts]

Okay so this is the Suriname Sea Toad and its insistent on being as insane as possible.

So the mummy and daddy toad do a fuck dance and then the daddy toad puts the jizzy eggs in her back, where they form into fully grown Toadlets and pop about of her back, in a very satisfying way to my fellow trypophiles here.

Here is the video evidence: https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/00000144-0a32-d3cb-a96c-7b3f4a2d0000

Why is nature so intent on spitting out these glorious abominations? Why isn't evolution okay with humans, cats and dogs and shit and maybe a duck or a rhino? It's unsettling.

[Cerys]

Oddly reminiscent of how Young Conservatives are born.

[The Boston Crab]

The description makes me think of the bit in gremlins which makes me want to turn inside out and die

[Ray Travez]

There's some kind of parasitic wasp that lays its eggs in the brain of another creature. The eggs hatch and turn into larvae, and then the larvae start to mind control the creature as they eat its brain. It becomes a kind of zombie host for the hungry maggots. I'd google it to get the name of the animal whose brain the parasites inhabit but I'd rather not recall any more about it to be honest.

[The Boston Crab]

If I had a gun I'd shoot myself in the head

[Dewt]

Cannot believe that fucking voiceover.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

There's some kind of parasitic wasp that lays its eggs in the brain of another creature. The eggs hatch and turn into larvae, and then the larvae start to mind control the creature as they eat its brain. It becomes a kind of zombie host for the hungry maggots. I'd google it to get the name of the animal whose brain the parasites inhabit but I'd rather not recall any more about it to be honest.

Ow, get off. Doesn't look much like a wasp does it, but there it is.

[BlodwynPig]

Not your british wasp no, but there are a great variety of wasps, only 80% of whom will brain fuck you

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Urgh, why do wasps have to be such little arseholes?

[dissolute ocelot]

They only want to be bees, but the Tories won't let them!

[Yussef Dent]

There's some kind of parasitic wasp that lays its eggs in the brain of another creature. The eggs hatch and turn into larvae, and then the larvae start to mind control the creature as they eat its brain. It becomes a kind of zombie host for the hungry maggots. I'd google it to get the name of the animal whose brain the parasites inhabit but I'd rather not recall any more about it to be honest.

Is it the Jewel Wasp? That one does it to cockroaches, it's truly one of the most unpleasant things in nature.

Another bloody HORRIFIC thing in the natural world is how Bed Bugs copulate, I'll apologise in advance as it's deeply unpleasant. Despite the female having normal functioning genitalia, the male bed bug pierces her body wall and inseminates into her blood with his penis which is like a hypodermic needle. This is known as "traumatic insemination" and females subjected to this die sooner or significantly lose mobility. This continues to baffle animal scientists as the females continue to fail to resist mating, and why do they continue to have normal working reproductive tracts? Also, as Bed Bugs are really unsanitary creatures, the dirty male also infects the female with pathogenic bacteria, which is fought off by cells produced by a very unique immune organ, so at least there's that. Evolution's massively f***ed up down the line at some point there.

[The Bumlord]

Do not click.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/290cbc539af78bc63feaf0b2397330fe/tumblr_o8chk686oS1tlljfxo2_r1_250.gif

[Dex Sawash]

Jesusfuck

[checkoutgirl]

There's some kind of parasitic wasp that lays its eggs in the brain of another creature. The eggs hatch and turn into larvae, and then the larvae start to mind control the creature as they eat its brain. It becomes a kind of zombie host for the hungry maggots. I'd google it to get the name of the animal whose brain the parasites inhabit but I'd rather not recall any more about it to be honest.

Is that the one that makes the host not run away when it's natural predator is around so it gets eaten? Thus continuing the cycle or something?

Who needs HR Giger? That toad thing is freaky. Some people have an irrational fear of collections of holes. Imagine showing that to them.

[Cerys]

Do not click.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/290cbc539af78bc63feaf0b2397330fe/tumblr_o8chk686oS1tlljfxo2_r1_250.gif

LEGEND ASCARIS

[BlodwynPig]

Is it the Jewel Wasp? That one does it to cockroaches, it's truly one of the most unpleasant things in nature.

Another bloody HORRIFIC thing in the natural world is how Bed Bugs copulate, I'll apologise in advance as it's deeply unpleasant. Despite the female having normal functioning genitalia, the male bed bug pierces her body wall and inseminates into her blood with his penis which is like a hypodermic needle. This is known as "traumatic insemination" and females subjected to this die sooner or significantly lose mobility. This continues to baffle animal scientists as the females continue to fail to resist mating, and why do they continue to have normal working reproductive tracts? Also, as Bed Bugs are really unsanitary creatures, the dirty male also infects the female with pathogenic bacteria, which is fought off by cells produced by a very unique immune organ, so at least there's that. Evolution's massively f***ed up down the line at some point there.

Decades of biting the vilest forms of humanity is bound to have consequences. Horizontal gene transfer from subhuman to bug.

[Cuellar]

Hate all these things, can't wait for climate change to ruin all natural life on this planet.

Nature is disgusting.

[Ray Travez]

Is it the Jewel Wasp? That one does it to cockroaches, it's truly one of the most unpleasant things in nature.

Yeah, that's the barstard.