The authors liken the newly discovered hippocampal barcodes to computer hash codes, which are patterns assigned as unique identifiers to different events.
Could the birds be using something analogous to a spatial Bloom filter?
If anything he's the fungi beetle guy imo. There are lots of inverts that look like bird shit but this may be the only one that looks like an infected bug.
"These bugs are also known to bite unsuspecting humans between the toes, hence why they're called "toe-biters," though this bite is nontoxic and we're far too big to be their prey."
We have those here. They’re big ugly motherfuckers and it hurts like hell when they bite you. But they’re big and slow so you gotta really not be paying attention to get bit by one.
Yeah there kind of rare where I live too. They used to come to the gas station I worked at as a kid at night. People would come in for gas and see them and freak out because they’d be like “I DIDNT KNOW WE HAD BUGS THAT BIG HERE”
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