You’re just hoping for Iran to develop a better functioning democracy than the US after it was “bombed back to the stone ages”?

That IS super nieve.

It is the only liverwort that does this. No need to check on other liverwort species. You can leave them be.

Haha, are you speaking from your own practical experience, in which you failed and decided to buy canned food instead?

It’s not easy, but it’s not impossible either. It depends on your circumstances.

And there’s an in between as well: grow some of your own food and buy canned foods as well. Or share a garden with people who know what they’re doing.

Yes I guess cravings are part of the “reptilian brain” (brain stem) in humans as well.

Funny to think crocs could crave banana’s. “Finally, gotta have some potassium after all these meats”.

So they go around eating plants they don’t know to see if they like them and get a craving for them later? Doesn’t seem very crocodile-like

Interesting! But how do we know the crocs eat the fruit specifically as mineral or fiber supplement and not just for general sustenance, for the fun of death rolling a pumpkin, or “by accident”?

The sentence “it’s not by accident either” indicates clearly observable behaviour. I.e.: A croc needs potassium, then eats a banana. But how did the scientists observe this?

And how do the crocs know which fruit to eat? I guess for them to eat anything with the intention of being provided with minerals or fiber they need to know their fruits?

I have so many questions. I know bears know a lot about plants and some apes are known to use specific plants (as medicine even), but this is indicative of higher intelligence so I’d be curious to hear if anyone knows about how this works in primitive reptile brains.

Good job! Now it is both a reply and not a reply

Maybe it feels counter-intuitive to some that sharks were there before trees…

But I hope it is intuitive that there was water long before there was soil? Then it’s just a small step to realize life in water has had a much longer time to develop.

Mosses were likely already there though