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==Strange life forms== | ==Strange life forms== | ||
{{Pullquote|On and on it goes. It seems the more you learn, the less and less and less and less and less you know.|Apollo Sunshine, "The Egg"}} | {{Pullquote|On and on it goes. It seems the more you learn, the less and less and less and less and less you know.|Apollo Sunshine, "The Egg"}} | ||
===Plants=== | ===Plants=== | ||
Let's look at real plants to get some inspiration. It seems that peering into nature closely only demonstrates how incapable we are of imagining anything stranger or more alien than the actual life that exists on this planet -- plants that hear, plants that eat meat, plants that don't need soil.... Here's some stand-out examples. | Let's look at real plants to get some inspiration. It seems that peering into nature closely only demonstrates how incapable we are of imagining anything stranger or more alien than the actual life that exists on this planet -- plants that hear, plants that eat meat, plants that don't need soil.... Here's some stand-out examples. | ||
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===Animal intelligence=== | ===Animal intelligence=== | ||
*Elephants can [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ | *Elephants can [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/121102-korean-speaking-elephant-talk-human-science-weird-animals vocalize human words] by placing their trunks in their mouths; they show self-awareness, capacity for cooperative problem-solving, and can understand human speech; they also have death rituals, a practice only previously observed in ''Homo sapiens''; their brains may work similarly to ours, and yet theirs have more convolutions; they may be better at counting than us, they have far better memories, and like humans, they're born with brains much heavier than most animals and yet as a lower-than-normal percentage of their adult brain size (in other words, the brain will grow significantly after birth). They also show compassion towards strange elephants, humans and other animals as small as mice. | ||
*At least [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/story-one-whale-who-tried-bridge-linguistic-divide-between-animals-humans-180951437/ one whale] has attempted to vocalize human speech as well. | *At least [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/story-one-whale-who-tried-bridge-linguistic-divide-between-animals-humans-180951437/ one whale] has attempted to vocalize human speech as well. | ||