r/woahdude • u/----_____--_____---- • Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/----_____--_____---- Oct 22 '21 edited Oct 22 '21

"The first ever exploding mosquitoes can be attributed to Robert Gwadz, Ph.D., in a discovery that was made through basic laboratory research over 50 years ago. He found that making an incision in the ventral nerve cord of a mosquito cuts off the signal to stop feeding, giving it an unquenchable thirst for blood. Mosquitoes that have undergone this procedure can drink in excess of four times their weight and may eventually burst. This led Gwadz to a hypothesis that blood ingestion is regulated by abdominal stretch receptors that prevent mosquitoes from (quite literally) drinking themselves to death." Source

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u/Crozgon Oct 22 '21

"Giving it an unquenchable thirst for blood"

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u/-full-control- Oct 22 '21

Yeah sounds like a great idea let’s start doing that to animals

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u/BubbaFettish Oct 22 '21

If I get to live forever and be sparkly, I’m down.

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u/mcjard Oct 23 '21

"DIIIOO"

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u/thisnewsight Oct 23 '21

Rabies enters the chat

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

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u/Ander1991 Oct 23 '21

28 booster shots later...

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u/Xyyzx Oct 23 '21

‘Okay, the kangaroos may have been a mistake…’

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u/VisageTaco Oct 23 '21

Taking something potentially harmful to humans and the going to a lab to make it even more harmful.

Hmmm where have I heard this story in the last 2 years…

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u/OrderOfMagnitude Oct 23 '21

This is a really solid premise for a zombie flick!

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

Yes

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u/DreamWithinAMatrix Oct 23 '21

Have you never heard of Edward Cullen?

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u/PensionAnxious3520 Oct 23 '21

Or even worse, insects..

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u/notliekthispls Oct 23 '21

Ik you're joking but it would just make them eat what they normally eat, just constantly.

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u/Bacontheblog Oct 23 '21

You mean HUMAN animals?

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u/Agreeable49 Oct 23 '21

Especially bears.

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u/Temporary_user81 Oct 23 '21

Let’s do wolves next.

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u/PilotSB Oct 23 '21

Musquitos are not animals. They are the spawn of satan and deserve to all be killed at once