Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution

Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by freeflight on Monday April 24, 2017 @05:24PM (#14188444)

>Yeah, I just have to worry about higher beings justifying the termination of my primitive nervous system "for science".

They might as well just terminate your primitive nervous system for their own nutritional needs or out of mere hunting instinct. Plenty of animals do this all the time, nature isn't romantic idealistic, it's ruthless and unforgiving.

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Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by Godel_unicode on Monday April 24, 2017 @06:27PM (#14188988)

Or alternatively, beautifully efficient.

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Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by kwhitefoot on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @11:32AM (#14194418)

Efficient at what? Efficiency is always relative to a particular goal, what did you have in mind?

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Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by greggyb on Saturday April 29, 2017 @02:33PM (#14227967)

Propagation of a species.

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Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by mirimir on Monday April 24, 2017 @08:35PM (#14189799)

Eating other species does have selective advantages.

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