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Jul 28, 2019 7:02 PM
LoopyMacGeorge
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Nordicwon13
What if we built a new mountain where there wasn’t one. One their flight path. Hilarity ensues?
awholelotofnothin
One time, I was driving on a real straight road and then it just curved for no reason. (Hey midwest highway - why you no straight?)
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
False
watmmk
MONARCH BUTTERFLY ORIENTATION: MISSING PIECES OF A MAGNIFICENT PUZZLE LINCOLN P. BROWER here’s the paper cited, nothing about a mountain
DouglasPouchOfHolding
Bullshit. We all know they stop off in Wisconsin for cheese curds.
Glasgow351
So it's just this one mountain they dodge, or are there other things they migrate around?
Dusty49
So they have a flight plan programmed into their genes? Not some sort of navigation technique?
ScarecrowSticks
It's an inside joke to confuse the humans, don't tell them
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
I know google can be a tad slow on updating their maps but damn
Odyssey9
HOW THE EFF DOES MEMORY DNA?!???!?!?!?????!???!!!!!!!!
Oldkerr
This is just to avoid Michigan. Do not blame them.
dogmatix
butterflies have a long memory for something that has a lifespan of, like, a day.
HumfreeBugart
That happens when you don't update your GPS nav regularly
ThrownClub
“Dear imgur, I am fucking stupid”-Op
SomeCrazyNerd
Buuuuulshit.
notacobra
Mountains last longer than species, they also tend not to be where non-volcanic lakes are.
hellodepressionspeaking
It would be funny if it were true
Snickt
dijital101
AaronWaltersHolms
That's like saying butterflies remember pangea
legolasmyeggolas
Pepperidge Farm remembers!
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
Not true. https://ohnofixit.tumblr.com/post/124360259846/reptileah-pentapoda-bethanyactually
TheyCallMeJimmyButMyNameIsJames
history's longest game of "telephone" goe hilariously wrong.
sgtschwasted
Read it in the monarchs monologue voice. Made me lol.
whereismydamnlighter
Fake news, not new actually so just ... fake!
handbanana13
Monarch memory it amazing.
Beartornado
Sounds like a fantastic cover for the SCP the foundation is hiding from the general public.
ScarecrowSticks
[Redacted]
FrankTheCube
ThatTransformersDude
Came here for this and only this. +1
dargonfarce
Unconvinced.
Coyote8
Uneducated
CluelessTennisball
Ironic
dargonfarce
Unconscionable
tcsv23
Inconceivable
SurfNazisMustDie
SomeCrazyNerd
I checked the source. No mention of disappearing mountains in the actual scientific article. Gizmodo appears to have made it up somehow
Sunscriptions
Ever been on a trail and wondered why it veers to one side and back? Because everyone before you did it. Are we surprised insects do it too?
godofhorizons
That’s a terribly dumb analogy
Petemccabe
Most local roads in the northeast US (at least) followed large animal trails, which follow salt deposits.
Elviondel
Yo, the picture above is a lie, don’t waste your time defending it.
minqapoc
A trail. Up in the air. Mind tellin me what plant u been smokin?
HumfreeBugart
Monarchs route is based on nectar sources during their journey of up to 2 months. These sources change over years due to urban development 1
HumfreeBugart
and changing agriculture crops. Monarch larvae eat ONLY milkweed and that's what the final destination is based on for egg laying
spderweb
But humans see a physical trail. And we're taught what a trail is. Butterflies are doing this with nobody teaching them. It's in their DNA
Sunscriptions
And why do humans follow the trail when they can also see it would be easier to not follow it? They are similar curiosities.
Caphalor
Yea and it's also a fake fact
Sunscriptions
That’s not suggesting it isn’t cool and strange. Just saying it’s not surprising and not without precedent.
TerrorGuy58
The cool part is that generation after generation, they somehow instinctually know to follow that path with no visual references or stimuli
Sunscriptions
I agree it’s cool since there’s no visual element guiding them. But I find it more interesting that every creature plays follow the leader.
TerrorGuy58
But how does the leader know where to go? That’s what baffles me
Sunscriptions
Good question. I wonder if the monarchs path is more determined by an air current then a mountain that hasn’t existed in a very long time.
ScarecrowSticks
That implies there's grooves in the sky due to it being worn down [/s]
danbrazier
Sunscriptions
See my third comment above. Why do land creatures follow a trail when just going straight would be faster and easier? Cheers
TeddyBearHeaven
You’ve never had poison ivy?
Sunscriptions
Easily avoided. You’re adding what if’s to a simple thought experiment - Not that that’s a bad thing.
BaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaBATMAN
It's usually easier to follow a path than not. Most terrain will give more resistance off path. Hindrances etc, vegetation.
BaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaBATMAN
This is why we have roads, they are low resistance paths.
Sunscriptions
As below, you’re adding what if’s to a simple thought experiment - but that’s not a bad thing.
BaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaBATMAN
I'm not though. Just saying why we follow paths, because it's almost always easier.
vikingvampireangel
This isn't a real fact. There's no documents to support it and lake Superior has been a low point since before butterflies existed in NA.
MommysBaby
wasthatsandwich
Op while posting this
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HumfreeBugart
The Canada/USA border crosses the middle of Lake Superior, so maybe they need to divert and go through customs and immigration procedures
paragraph
I think you'll find that only the French-Canadian butterflies divert because they prefer the service at that Tim Hortons
lokishadowgirl
there was a volcano at the center of the what is now the lake at one point
vikingvampireangel
Kinda. It's a rift valley. The splitting continental plates allowed lava through to pour out the center. Keweenaw peninsula is that lava.
vikingvampireangel
Still never was a mountain.
CosmicBrownie95
So what are they trying to cover up in the middle of lake Superior?
vikingvampireangel
It's the rift valley for the mid-Continental divide, and it's about a billion years old. I don't even know if butterflies even divert there.
Fynndango
Everyone in Michigan knows. But we won't tell. Until the wolves come.
vikingvampireangel
The article posted by OP cites 2 sources that make no mention of monarchs diverting over a missing mountain in lake Superior.
RepostedFTW
Thank you for doing the research i am to lazy for
Hibbtygibitty
So we all gotta storm the OP. Take that liar out. Make imgur safe again. Or maybe not.
vikingvampireangel
Tenugui
The paper about the 1° shift per day in migration orientation was pretty cool though. Also, can't track the butterflies with that precision
vikingvampireangel
Very! I just want to know what the point of making something like this up would be? Like, where's the gain?
mdzmdz
To aid public acceptance of their plan for building the world's biggest artificial mountain in the middle of Lake Superior.
ShadyEsperanto
chaos.
rrlyrae
assuming this shift over the lake actually happens, more plausible theories include: (1) they use EM lines, (2) shifting air currents, or..
rrlyrae
(3) they are following the distribution of milkweed.
Tarmaccian
Or they see the Keweenaw and head toward it.
SnowpersonHitInTheFaceWithALackOfCreativity
But wait, where did the mountain go??
upsidedownhead
I’d say a hundred million years is enough time for a mountain to erode away, even if it erodes only because butterflies keep head butting it
xgambitx
From the last Ice Age a huge glacier moved from north to south flattening and carving out the great lakes
vikingvampireangel
Turns out this "Fact" isn't.
firepoopthrower
Everything changed when the Earthbenders attacked
GastricMuncher
*DM starts sweating*
Percevaus
Came here for this
Shamwowser
iDrinkDrano
I got that reference
CityYeti
I took it
Kingcrabby
Got up and walked away
Percevaus
I was gonna post this if you didn't
dogmatix
It migrated south.
whadupdalg
Used for pyramids.
UnsettlingSoundComingFromBelow
Razed by a glacier
thanksfoenothing
It inverted itself to become the deepest Great Lake.
mattdmon84
WellThatsOriginal
He died
imAUser
Kill the viper with his hands
Huggitt17
South for the winter.
OHGODBEEEES
StrategicallyPlacedBanana
artemorra
Take my upvote you sassy bstard
EMTMarv
thatfellathere
Underrated comment
wOOtist
Not anymore :P
DickTipPapercut
It's rated higher than what it replied to. How is that underrated
thatfellathere
It wasn't when I saw it
Jarsal
Just ask Effrafax of Wug.
minqapoc
Home.
mdzmdz
In this case the mountain came to Muhammad.
tiberiuswhythecrapcantweuseunderscoresxxvii
Every few million years Earth's elevations flip upside down; mountains turn into lakes, oceans to continents, etc. It's how we lost Atlantis