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[-] Wirrvogel@feddit.de 136 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If someone is lost as I was:

Spoilerdeer protect their young from predators, the young deer are in the center of the circle where the predator can't get to
a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. This circle is commonly known as a "death spiral" because the ants might eventually die of exhaustion

[-] Sakychu@lemmy.world 42 points 9 months ago

Some other animals too. Especially Turkeys can also get into a "death spiral" similar to ants!

[-] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

Turkeys? Some of us have their own death spiral to worry about.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Death spiral sounds like something you'd do at a metal concert

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Turkeys will eventually break out of the circle as they get hungry, they stay in the flock because they feel safer in numbers, and are dumb enough to forget who's leading. Buy they won't march on to their own death unless food is incredibly scarce.

Ants just aren't self aware, and don't have enough brain cells to realize they could just break off and take a snack break if they wanted.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 108 points 9 months ago

Deers

The grammar monster in me is going to need a trigger warning next time.

[-] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

I think the wrong spelling is part of the meme adventure

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago

What if it's different species of deer? Does it work like fish?

[-] criitz@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would say yes

[-] mofongo@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Why is the plural the same as singular that does make no sense

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[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Why is English so ridiculous that the plural and singular of deer is the same word? And why do people want to keep it that way?

[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Go speak a language with gendered nouns and leave English alone

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

The plural of "moose" is also "moose" but it's not because of English. Moose derives from Algonquian, a Native American language. It kept the same plural ending it had in its original language instead of adopting the normal "s" ending of most English plurals.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I believe the plural of "moose" is actually "meese".

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Goose : Geese :: Moose : Meese

Mouse : Mice :: House : Hice

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

"MOOSES" Sounds like moose jesus

[-] Jorgelino@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

This isn't an english specific trait. Lots of languages have something similar.

For instance, in portuguese we do the same for words that end on the letter S.

Ex: Lápis (Pencil), Vírus (Virus), Ônibus (Bus), etc.

[-] skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

It's Durrs to you city folk.

[-] livie@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 9 months ago

Oh deer

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago

I'm glad that quick answer is there, no way I'm reading that whole thing.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

I thought this was common knowledge.

[-] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

To native English speakers, yes. To non-native speakers, this is yet another bizarre rule they just have to memorize.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago

Hey, did you know your profile is set to appear as a bot and as a result many may be filtering your posts and comments? You can change this in your Lemmy settings.

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[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

John, you can't license away the plural of deer.

[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I acknowledge that the council has made a decision, but given that it is a stupid-ass decision I've elected to ignore it.

[-] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

I want to stand in the eye of the deernado and see how long I can last.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 53 points 9 months ago

If none of them are bucks, it could be a tornadoe.

[-] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Nice 👏👏👏

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 14 points 9 months ago

I’m willing to bet you’ll get a few bucks.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Considering the other comment mentioning that they do this to protect their young, probably not very long.

[-] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Whatever gets your rocks off.

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

It’s just Ant… you don’t have to put the ‘s’, ant is already plural

[-] Denjin@lemmings.world 8 points 9 months ago

Incorrect

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Maybe in the original British English it’s not, but in American English, ant is plural

[-] Stamets@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

No it isn't. Ants is the plural for a single ant in the English language flat out. In no region does the word 'ant' fall under the Singular Plural rules.

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Well maybe I was referring to deer, and not ants. Humor is dead.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 9 months ago

Humor is dead.

What was the joke? That your grammar is bad?

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

The joke is that the meme has bad grammar, deer is plural. Rather than point out the obvious, I say that ant is plural, which is funny because it is both stupid, and draws attention to the deer/s. When my comment wooshes over heads, I follow it up with an even stupider comment, thinking that nobody could possibly be stupid enough to think that there is someone out there that thinks ant is a plural american english version of the British ‘ants’… and then I am once again astonished.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

If it makes you feel any better, I got the joke :)

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Thank you, I should have just kept pushing it further and further into absurdity.

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[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Unless it's the human aunt. Like if your mother and father both had a sister named "Sarah" (or if one set of grandparents were very lazy with their naming and your father or mother had two sisters named "Sarah"), you would refer to them collectively as Aunts Sarah.

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I actually had a pet moose named Sarah, but have never had a pet ant named Sarah so I can’t confirm this.

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Can we save the ants by brushing them away?

[-] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Maybe drop a cookie in there to tide them over

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 9 months ago

Don't kid yourself, HonoraryMancunian. If an ant ever got the chance, she'd eat you and everyone you cared about.

Like, literally, no meme.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

https://youtu.be/0ttGgIQpAUc?si=Utns8zJApaLXs1TH

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