this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
30 points (81.2% liked)
Showerthoughts
29360 readers
1252 users here now
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- Posts must be original/unique
- Be good to others - no bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I doubt that the gene would be successful in the wild, given it would make it harder for the deer to hide from predators.
Give the deer a bright orange glow and then jam some deer genes into their predators so they have a harder time seeing that color. Close the loop by taking a selection of those predators' features and distributing them at random in the glowing fish population.
"jam some deer genes". I don't know if that would work, but they definitely have to film it.
Rule 34.
What if we gave them fur that glows under UV light? And then modify our headlights to give off just a little UV. Then when the light hits their fur, they glow!
Most predators don't have UV flashlights, so this should be a viable alternative.
Unless predators have fluorescent light it shouldn’t be a problem, it’s not bioluminescence.
Ever had glofish? They look much brighter under a blacklight, but they're still noticably colorful even under natural sunlight, in a way that the unmodified zebra danios (the original fish) are not
Yeah... All those predators...like ... Hmmm. Yeah. Looks like cars kill more deer then predators there bud.
Except that the reintroduced Canadian wolves into yellowstone proves that one dead wrong.
We'd probably end up with a situation where wild deer don't have the gene and city deer do, excepting any cross-breeding.