Do slugs feel fear (mortal terror) when people suddenly appear

I don't know, honestly....but you didn't want to kill it, so don't feel too bad.

>>2206721
Some form of fear. I know they don't like it when to take an xacto knife and slice them in half from tail to head.

I don't think they are capable of very complex inner life.

This was interesting, simplified I'm sure but can't help thinking about logic gates
>A study, published in 2016 in Nature, has shown that in air-breathing freshwater snails of the genus Lymnaea Lamarck, 1799 goal-directed decision-making during the hunt for food is performed by just two neuron types. Through measuring the action potentials between neurons, the researchers found that just two neurons were able to come to a complicated form of decision making. One neuron in the brain tells the snail if food is nearby, the second neuron signals whether the snail is hungry or not. Such decision making helps the snail save energy by reducing complex brain activity when there is no food nearby and adapts its behavior in the absence of food. Thus the snail can switch between a low-use mode and a high-use mode depending on the decision. According to lead researcher György Kemenes, this could help engineers design more efficient "robot brains" in future.

You're probably wasting mental energy by feeling like that, but you have good character.

>>2206726
kewl/10

>>2206725
That might just be trying to avoid pain.
Also, you make me sad, and I also wish you were okay, but I know you won't be.

>>2206726
So ants are more intelligent than snails? If so, that would be a really interesting tidbit.

>>2206721
Slugs can react to certain clear stimuli such as light levels and to a lesser extent movement, they can respond to touch and pain, but they lack the complex neural ganglia needed to anticipate these things or to experience an emotion like fear.

This year in eastern Britbongland has been fucking insane for slugs - specifically Arion ater - I can't walk along a footpath on or off road in the evening without walking on the backs of more slugs than I can count - fat fuckers pop underfoot like living bubblewrap, and then the rest of their ravening cannibal hordes eat their pus-like guts for supper.

Charming animals!

There's been an equal population boom of ground beetles who feed on their eggs.

>>2206731
Consider how complicated ants are I'd say they're certainly smarter.

Slugs are idiots, of course they don't feel terror. The most complex thing they're capable of is mapping out an area for food and making a daily routine around it, which is admittedly quite cool.
>>2206845
Interesting, up north I haven't seen A. ater in years. Around me its leopard slugs that have exploded in growth, I'd barely seen any before this year too.

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>>2206852
And we're supposed to take a gardener's word on neurobiology now? Sure, m8 :^)

>>2206865
>the old "no u" argument
classic bugcuck
Some of us have actual degrees while you sit around in your mother's basement jerking off to pictures of your "fern wall"

>>2206872
>I d-don't have an actual degree, b-but at least I have some flowers I got from a local park
nice one

>>2206883
>3 companies

I like it how he adds one every time someone question him

>>2206883
>>2206901
>bragging about your tomatoes
I guess that's your way of compensating

>>2206933
Wow I always imagined you as a bottom bitch and I was completely right. Bet your tomato soup is great for days you know you're going to get fucked in the ass.

>>2206933
LOOOOOOL!

i think vulnerable, defenseless animals have a mechanism that at least helps them forget terror and trauma and at most makes them oblivious to it

this is just from observing my rabbit on daily basis

>>2206942
You don't have to deny it I take cocks up the ass too, which is why it's so obvious to me. It's 2016 man. Nothing wrong with taking a thick cock up the ass and having a load blown deep inside you. You can admit it here. It's okay man. Don't feel like you can't be yourself.

>>2206942
>like im rich
>pretending to be wealthy in your mom's basement
wew

>>2206933
Are you a mongrel or something? You look too asian for a tulip.

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>>2206948

he used to beat you up afterwards, huh?

>>2206954
>my shoulder is ready for you any time bro.
don't make it gay, brah

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>>2206883
>I own 3 companies

top_kek.png

>>2206933

Have some fan art.

>>2206883
Not gonna lie, I think I'll have tomato soup for lunch today.

>>2206967
But not buggay's super special variety

>>2206970
>eat it with a baguette and herb butter.
I'm more of a grilled cheese kinda guy, but that sounds great.

>>2206933
You got roasted. All because of snails!

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>>2206951
>bugguy is just the Dutch elliot rodger

>>2206933
oh dang white boy, you're not looking too bad bugguy. a little scrawny for my taste, but not too shabby. good for you, namefag. bragging isn't attractive, but money and looks will always hold up right?

>>2206995
Hullo sir

>>2206933
Is this really how you look in real life? I've always imagined you looking different in my head. You look pretty attractive

jesus christ this thread

>>2207066
clearly there is some kind of gap in your heart if your favorite hobbies are playing runescape and baiting in every other thread.

>tripfag spams the thread and turns it into his personal blog again

woah... where have i seen this before?

>>2206933
Do you happen to be Dutch?
Everything (including yourself) in that pic makes me think you are.

>>2207077
wow you're good.

OP here, please either stay on topic or let the thread die instead of stroking each others fragile egos out of howhere.

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>>2207087
Figured so. In this case I'm Dutch myself so that makes it a lot easier to guess. But sometimes I can tell from facial features where people come from and I'm not talking about, asian, black etc. Like many white Americans look different to me than white European folks e.g.

>>2207089
On topic, I don't think they can. However there's an overdose of these smelly slimy fuckers here so hopefully many more of them die soon

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>>2207089
It wasn't a very good thread to begin with. They're slugs. No they don't feel mortal terror. It's wonderful that you were upset about it though, I too avoid all the squishy dudes.

>>2206933

>>2207017
>oh dang white boy, you're not looking too bad bugguy
>>2207062
>You look pretty attractive

Samefag jerking himself off

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good thread

>>2207089
>part-chink tripfag slug getting squashed
But it is on topic

>>2206731
A lonely ant? Not at all.
But an organized group? Definitely.

>>2206883
Mind to share it with me famalam? Looks pretty good. I won't tell that other anon, don't worry

>>2207146
>crushing betas
>literally lives with mom

k.

>>2207156
I don't know if ants can feel lonely

What would happen if a single worker ant was put on an island with no other animal life, no other ants? Would it just stand there and let itself starve, or depressedly live day to day?

>>2207177
Based
Also, do you have any obscure tips for growing melons? My plants are going nicely, been flowering for a month or so, and I'd like to know if there's anything I can do right now to improve growth.

>>2207185
>melons
He's gay. He doesn't like melons.

>>2207196
That's a species of passion fruit, but hey, what do garders know of botany ;)

>>2207203
>talks about melons
>post picture of what he thinks is a melon

Yes, you did imply it
>inb4 "no-uh, that's not how we butt loaders think"

>>2207190
Thanks mate

>>2207213
>damage control: the post

>>2207219
>läderlappen
You're probably the one with a latex fetish here, future proud owner of a HIV strain.

>>2207259
>stale
Well not everyone is a NEET like you, who has time to grow their fresh insults at home

>>2207265
>your unemployment
Like a chink faggot once said "nice assumption haha"

>in my company
I don't think being a callboy for blind people counts as a "company"

>>2207271
Again an assumption

>>2207278
Again, you're assuming the intelligence of another person.

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>>2207278
you're just butthurt because you failed so miserably with that melon, aren't you?

>>2207278
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>>2207278
>>2207283

Samefag.

>>2206852
>slugs don't have pain.

>don't feel pain
>don't avoid physical harm
>rapidly become extinct

Seriously - have you suffered some kind of major head trauma?

>>2207290

Seriously - do you have some kind of congenital condition? Product of incest? Deprived of oxygen at birth?

>actually kinda sad /an/ has gone a bit /b/...

>*sigh*

>>2207296
>nociception
Oh fucking great. Now you said bugcuck's favourite word.

>>2207290
>pain isn't physical harm
What other ways of detecting physical harm do you posess?

>>2207307
So if you put your hand on a hot surface and move it away via reflex, why do you feel pain?

>>2207314
You missed the reflex part.

>you need a conscious brain for that which slugs lack
Oh, they don't just lack a conscious brain, they lack a brain all together.

>>2207314
>conscious brain

That doesn't mean much, since there isn't a universally accepted definition for "conscience"

>Pointlessly pedantic semantic squabble is pointlessly pedantic.

>>2207383
>Pointlessly pedantic semantic squabble is pointlessly pedantic.
Try to explain that to bugcuck.

>>2207741

When hell freezes over and you take your own advice then we can talk.

I regret coming to this board and making this thread. I was pretty drunk though.
Please sage and let it die, I can't delete it.

>>2208143

Congratulations and Welcome to 4chan - you are no longer a newfag.

>every thread ends with bitterness and regret, occasionally suicide.

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>>2208143
>let it die

no

>>2208709
I usually just stay on /ck/ and /po/.

>>2206721
Well I'm sure he didn't appreciate it.

Snails don't feel pain the same way humans do, much like insects. They still "feel" pain, but it isn't the same kind of pain. It's more like "oh shit I'm being damaged I need to run or fight" rather than "fuck that hurts."

>>2206721
It was an accident, OP. You must forgive yourself.

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Today I found 3 slugs feasting on a mushroom. A sure sign of Autumn.

You shouldn't feel too bad about it OP. Slugs aren't too good at staying alive but they make up for it in numbers. They have no individuality or sense of self.

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>>2210158
Thank you.

>>2210399
Slugs aren't insects.

>>2210399
>slugs
>insects

God damn you're retardation has no limits.

This slug has a built in siren that goes off when it feels discomfort or pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYPdTNya3Q0

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FUCK what did i miss?

>>2211813
typical bugguy posting.

>>2206721
Chances are that all organisms have at some sensation capability of fear. After all, it is a biological adaptation to keep us away from things that as potential threats or weird us in some way.