Rob Lamb
speaker
6,505 appearances
29 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
Rob Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Some salamanders and frogs even develop cannibal morphs, larvae with larger teeth and mouths to gobble up nursery mates when resources are tight.
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While horrific sounding to us, this is just the survival economics of the wild.
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It's also one way of interpreting the large mouths and teeth of the nippers.
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Larvae have many enemies, however, so it also bodes well for larvae to fend off predators, as well as cannibal adults of the same species.
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It has been theorized that the dorsal spines on metallic blue lady beetle larvae serve to protect them against attacks by the larvae of other species, species that often boast the speed, maneuverability, and mandibles to take out susceptible larvae.
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This according to Intraguild Predation Among Lady Beetles and a Green Lace Wing by McCaw and Grant from the Bulletin of Entomological Research in 2007.
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In short, larvae and babies generally have a great deal of development left to do, sometimes in quite a hurry.
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But in some cases, it makes sense to frontload that development with an outsized ability to defend yourself or to consume your competitors.
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One can easily imagine the goblins of the goblin city in labyrinth capitalizing on these adaptations for their.
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Your own nasty weaponry.
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Alright, up next, uh, let's get a little bit into some Dark Crystal.
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These are from the Dark Crystal Age of Resistance, uh uh which uh I greatly enjoyed.
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I think there's a lot of wonderful world building in that show.
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Uh so first let's enjoy the Lock Snakes of Thrall.
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The Skexies of Thrall saw nature as a thing to be broken, reconstructed, and used as they saw fit.
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Their perverse outlook famously resulted in the creation of such horrors as the rambaging Gartham and spying crystal bats.
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But a less obvious example can be found in the humble lock snake.
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As witnessed in The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance, and related by Adam Caesar in The Dark Crystal Bestiary, the lock snakes were a variety of serpents noted for their mineral hardened scales and inclination to wrap around an object and tightly bind themselves onto that object by latching under their own tail.
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Presumably, this tactic would protect the creature in the wild from predators that would otherwise snatch them away.
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take away, much in the same manner that an eagle may take off with a terrestrial snake.
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