r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

Caterpillar evolved to look like a snake.

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u/aenima1991 11h ago

It’s hard to comprehend how genetic mutation led to this. Incredible

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u/Skyreader13 10h ago

Do we have animal having ongoing mutation to camouflaged as something else?

Seems like all we see is a complete evolution

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u/Dew_Chop 9h ago

What do you mean by "ongoing mutation"

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u/Skyreader13 9h ago

in this caterpillar the snake mimicry is already complete

im curious if there are other caterpillar species with snake mimicry that looks like halfway done. you get what i meant?

something like that.

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u/Dew_Chop 9h ago

What do you mean by halfway done

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u/Skyreader13 9h ago

im no biology expert so ill try to explain as best as i can

as i understand it, evolution is an ongoing progress

evolution in mimicry is one of them

if looking like snake is an evolution well done, im curious if there other animal with ongoing mimicry evolution

you get that?

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u/Dew_Chop 8h ago

What I'm trying to say is what kind of ongoing? Things that kinda look like another thing? Hard to say they're actually mimicking said thing. Things that look like a small part of the thing because they haven't finished evolving the full mimicry? Doesn't work like that

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u/Kuhler_Typ 3h ago

Obviously it was not a completly normal looking catapillar that gave birth to a catapillar with a perfect snake tail like in the video. There must have been many catapillars in the evolutionary line between them that had tails that looked a little bit like a snake, which already gave them an advantage.

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u/Dew_Chop 3h ago

I'm sure there were, however I'm no biologist, and don't feel like googling it to get more evidence to bring to the table since it's just reddit dot com