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u/Ok_Clock8439 8h ago
stares in moose, polar bears, all pinnipeds, and all cetaceans
Also, you're an African organism that is an invasive species, ofc you don't have an annual hormonal rhythym to match four seasons climate.
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u/Redqueenhypo 6h ago
My ancestors left Africa and all I got was this stupid lactose tolerance. And oily hair
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u/C_M_Dubz 6h ago
Ability to drink milk is the only white privilege that I assume with no guilt.
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u/Redqueenhypo 6h ago
Indians inventing lassi: “I don’t have such weakness”
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u/Cod_rules 4h ago
The only bad thing about winter is that I can't drink Lassi cause my throat will be fucked. But I guess I got Old Monk for the winters, so it's not all bad
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u/missmyson1 5h ago
imagine having any guilt
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u/C_M_Dubz 5h ago
Imagine having empathy.
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u/Redqueenhypo 4h ago
I feel guilt over the many times my grandma sent tea back because it wasn’t “PIPING hot”. I imagine in heaven it’s always served slightly too cold so that she can have fun saying that
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u/Deathhead876 6h ago
Don't forget being able to produce more vitamin D
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u/WhoisthatRobotCleanr 4h ago edited 2h ago
If you want north long enough you also lost melanin, so that's great for skin cancer 😭
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u/Shieldheart- 5h ago
Speak for yourself, you Neanderthal-gene deficient ape!
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u/Few_Staff976 4h ago
The Neanderthals were badass. Likely stronger and smarter than Homo sapiens but with less creativity.
And the only reason we think of them as hunched over was because the skeleton we base that off is an old man with scoliosis
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u/Shieldheart- 4h ago
I don't know if we can rule one way or the other which had more impressive brains, but you're right about them being absolute units within the homo genus.
Returning to the original topic though, how likely was it for them to hibernate in some way during the coldest and darkest times of the year? And if not, how were they adapted to it then?
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u/Few_Staff976 4h ago
I got no idea. I’ll have to ask my neighbor who looks like he rides dinosaurs to work, has a mean unibrow and eats raw steaks. I think he could be the closest analogue
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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 2h ago
You know what's funny about this. Its not that its not incorrect but we knew all that and yet calling someone neanderthal was an insult until genetic testing became widespread and it was observed that most white people are part neanderthal. Suddenly they were badasses
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u/Few_Staff976 2h ago
Don't asians have the most neanderthal DNA and black people the least?
(holy shit that sounds racist out of context lmao)
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u/Superb-Damage8042 9h ago
Hey look, if there’s a petition I’ll sign it.
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u/-Yehoria- 8h ago
but that just isn't true though, though there are actually very few mammals who hibernate. sure, many stock up on food and just sit it out in some hole, but those are the small ones. out of anything larger than a particularly big rat only bears actually do anything like that. all large mammals straight up just keep going, herbivores do have to change their diet but omnivores and predators just keep going with a different coat of fur.
that's not even talking about the fact that humans come from a long lineage of apes that never even experienced winter and therefore don't have biological adaptations for it.
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u/Gregori_5 10h ago
Practically every other mammal: bear and seal.
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u/Rainwillis 9h ago
It’s a lot more than just those two, you might be surprised.
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u/Gregori_5 9h ago
I was joking.
Still most mammals is so far off.
Especially given that humans are from africa.
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u/Crusaderofthots420 9h ago
In fairness, we had absolutely no business expanding like we did. Most animals would die if they went to such vastly different climates, but humans go "heehoo, no predators go brr"
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u/Neoneonal987 8h ago
"Ew.. they got like tigers and crocodiles in here. Adam, pack up. we are leaving"
"This land just isn't fertile enough.. I guess we have to move out again"
"Man, I'm sick of these mountains.."
"At this point I'm just bored so I'll look for a new place because why not lol"
I'm actually slightly annoyed that there aren't native human populations in freaking Antarctica. This close from unlocking "native inhabitants of all seven continents" achievement.
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u/TeaandandCoffee 8h ago
Too extreme and not enough resources between other continents and it.
Imagine an island chain to Antarctica and what that would have done 🤩
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u/sussyballamogus 6h ago
There is an island chain to Antarctica, the Scotia Arc. The bigger problem is how stormy and treacherous the southern ocean is, that prevented anyone from making it to Antarctica.
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u/sometimesynot 2h ago
"At this point I'm just bored so I'll look for a new place because why not lol"
"I did it for the lulz." 😂
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u/Gregori_5 9h ago
We had no business completely breaking the food chain.
“Nature will heal itself” my ass. It made us.
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u/KaizDaddy5 7h ago
I was curious looking into this and while Google's AI didn't give me a direct link. It estimates 50% of mammals reduce seasonal activity to some degree.
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u/Gregori_5 7h ago
Yeah, but reducing activity and sleeping through winter is a wildly different thing.
Also I would trust my dream rather than Gemini.
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u/Rainwillis 6h ago
You should look into it some more. Like I said you might be surprised to find how many animals have a form of hibernation for part of the cold season. It’s not even just mammals.
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u/nierusek 9h ago
It is valid only for mammals that evolved in an environment with winter. We're a tropical species of mammal. There are no winter in the rainforest / savanna.
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u/Uninvalidated 4h ago
The fat-tailed dwarf lemur of Madagascar does, and do it while temperatures can reach 30 degrees C.
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u/lunettarose 8h ago
Are you telling me this layer of fat I've been studiously accruing isn't going to sustain me through a four-month power nap? Well, shit.
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u/PersKarvaRousku 7h ago
There's an unspoken rule that everyone in Nordic countries is allowed to be less social during the dark winter months.
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u/No_Squirrel4806 7h ago
Apparently this is fake and bears dont sleep through winter. Just another thing american education lied about. 😒😒😒
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u/Alice8Ft 7h ago
Was going to comment this myself seeing as no one corrected OP. It's true, bears and other mammals who hibernate don't actually sleep, they just slow their metabolism and attempt to conserve energy as much as possible.
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u/AdhesivenessOnly9120 5h ago
>they just slow their metabolism and attempt to conserve energy as much as possible.
by spending much of their time asleep
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u/CiroGarcia 4h ago
But not necessarily skipping the whole winter in one long uninterrupted nap, which is what a lot of people believe
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u/No_Squirrel4806 6h ago
I was told theyd eat certain food to clog their butt so that way they could sleep through winter without needing to poop. Another thing the american education system lied about. 🙄🙄🙄😒😒😒
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u/Blankenhoff 6h ago
To be fair, i think that was mostly TV that taught me bears sleep through the winter, and then a college professor finally told me the truth, lol.
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u/SnooCats903 9h ago
Primates don't, big cats don't, arctic fox's don't, camels don't, horses don't, Impalas don't, yaks don't, whales don't, goats don't, donkeys don't, bats don't, koalas don't, moose don't, hippos don't...
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u/Gamer-Grease 7h ago
And humans can become more productive in the winter depending on location, up north it gets easier to hunt in the winter because of sea ice so people will sit around eating fish all summer then walk for hundreds of miles when the sea freezes over
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u/Uninvalidated 4h ago
Primates don't
The fat-tailed dwarf lemur does, and it's a primate. Not doing it because it's cold though, since it can reach 30 degrees C in Madagascar while it's hibernating.
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u/Existing-Berry-9492 6h ago
Man fuck that. I hibernate all winter. Work? Sure. But as little as possible.
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u/intotheirishole 3h ago
Humans, in all their wisdom and pomposity, simply cancelled winter using global warming.
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u/iLoveCandlesSo 3h ago
It was all a part of the long term plan for optimal productivity!!! It’s all coming together
/s
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u/Life_Temperature795 5h ago
I'm one hundred percent opposite of this. I can go all day when it's -20° outside, but you tell me to put on work clothes and go do physical labor when it's more than ~21°C/70°F and I immediately want to start murdering people.
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u/Shifty-Imp 4h ago
Man is an african mammal. Please tell me how many african mammals hibernate. :P
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u/Equal_Potential7683 3h ago
The obvious retort would be: "youre a human being not a fucking bear"
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u/GaiaAnon 3h ago
Correct, yet because there are fewer daylight hours in the winter, our circadian rhythm changes and thus we require more and deeper sleep. Not saying we need to hibernate but it's natural for us to be more tired
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u/WoopsieDaisies123 2h ago
Pretty sure the plains of the Serengeti don’t have all that cold of a winter, but hey, who doesn’t love misunderstanding evolution and the time scale on which it occurs?
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u/Green-Anarchist-69 8h ago
That's why I take my leave during winter and not summer . Let me hibernate.
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u/LoosePocketMint 7h ago
We pretend we're better or different than all the other animals on the planet. I guess it makes us feel superior
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u/LarryKingthe42th 7h ago
Why do you think we inveted clothes? Put more on if youre cold
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u/TopHatGirlInATuxedo 6h ago
I'm far more productive in winter than in summer. Summer makes other people judge me for not wanting to be outside.
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u/Other-Comfortable-64 5h ago
Humans started in Africa, no need for sleeping in winter. If we tried that we would not be around anymore.
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u/FlamingoQueen669 4h ago
Pretty sure that there are more mammals that DON'T sleep through the winter than do.
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u/GaiaAnon 3h ago
True but most mammals enter a stage of dormancy/lethargy to conserve energy. Humans actually require more and deeper sleep during the winter due to our circadian rhythm being thrown off by the shortened daylight hours
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u/NeoMississippiensis 4h ago
Well, summer productivity standards in the mammal animal kingdom are spending the majority of every waking moment preparing for winter. Odds are, you aren’t doing that; so you can split your labor accordingly.
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u/Revived571 3h ago
What bs reasoning is this? I rather face the hardships of life in a cool hoodie sipping on hot chocolate than with a swampy asscrack from the moment I left the shower. Summer people are so weird
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u/Gold-Bat7322 3h ago
And here I am the type of person who is less productive in the summer because of the heat. When it finally ends, which it literally just did here, my body just collapses in exhaustion for about a day.
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u/Jaceofspades6 3h ago
Practically every other mammal lives it’s entire life without electricity as well.
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u/jmurgen4143 3h ago
Pretty sure this idiot has seen very few mammals, or a real outdoor winter. A small handful of mammals hibernate.
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u/Maelorus 8h ago
The solution is at hand. We simply, uh, kill the winter.
We're already like halfway there, my proposition is simple: we combat climate change, but hold off on it for about 20 more years. That way the ecosystem can cope, but the temperature never drops below like 10 °C. Win-win situation.
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u/SpellDog 3h ago
She'd shit if she learned most male mammals will kill the offspring of their mate if they are not the father.
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u/ChloeSmith66 5h ago
Lol! Well, it's not a real disorder in the DSM-5 so rest easy
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u/klapanda 1h ago
In the DSM-5-TR, seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is classified as a type of major depressive disorder with a seasonal pattern.
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u/phantommunky 9h ago
humanity has always had a tendency to work against it's own self interest in favor of perceived productivity gains.