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[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 146 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Mammals use boob-juice to raise their offspring. That's why they are called that.

As opposed to e.g. birds that don't use boob-juice and instead elect to vomit in their offspring's ingestion orifices.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 75 points 5 months ago

Ironically, birds also have a non-zero chance to be called "tits", "boobies" or some such equivalent. Whoever named those must have been very proud of being a mammal and wanted to rub it in for those poor birds

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

Now I'm conflicted. Boobs are great but at what cost?

[-] variants@possumpat.io 16 points 5 months ago

We need boob v2, where you can chew a thing and boob out the vomit

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago

Nah boobs are great the way they are, adjust your interface program

[-] Instigate@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago

Isn’t… isn’t that basically how it works?

[-] bitfucker@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

I think he means doing it voluntarily. Like, you can shoot out milk at someone by your own will

[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Boob out lmao

Edit. That’s what boobs currently do. They just boob out one thing tho

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

There's a hentai for that.

[-] deus@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Not having to feed our offspring vomit?

[-] Shou@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

High rates of cancer.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

i legit had to search whether whales and dolphins had them, and I'm shocked.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago

Sea lions have retractable nipples. Let that sink in.

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Should I let it sink in just like the sea lions do with their nipples?

Also, the platypus doesn't have nipples. It sweats milk.

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