lafrisbee
Active Member
OK OK this is extremely OT but come on the guy was referencing tadpoles and piranhas completely wrong. You're in my pond of expertise here. Skip it if you don't want to know but you might find it if interest...
Piranhas are extremely nervous scared fish. if anything the individual investors are piranhas. You see they do travel in schools and need each other to take down prey. But the worst thing you can be around a piranha is another piranha. They do not fear an animal many times larger than themselves. but what they have to worry about is when a frenzy starts you don't want to be at the front. Well because the piranha behind you is worked up and goes in half blind biting the first his mouth touches... it's a piranha eat piranha world out there... Piranhas will fake rush a target and pull out hoping the next piranha behind em will hit the target first...sounds familiar? Talk about Sun Tzu.
Now tadpoles, Tadpoles are monsters. Most species I know have a weird genetic makeup. As tadpoles some have the "cannibal" gene, not all just some. It's a survival mechanism.
When the tadpoles hatch in a puddle the race is on. They have to evolve into adults before the puddle dries up. And eating a diet low in protein slows their growth, eating high protein accelerates their growth. And if there are sources of high protein food then only some of the tadpoles have their cannibal gene activated. Not all just "some." And the perfect protein source for any animal is identical to its amino acid percentages, which means...ain't nothing better for a tadpole to eat than another tadpole. This increases the likelihood that some of the tadpoles will become adults, but at the expense of some of the tadpoles which are eaten. And yet nature makes sure that only a percentage of tadpoles become cannibals so they don't end up killing each other off by viciously injuring the whole population which would likely happen if they all or a great percentage of them became cannibals. (Sidebar: Sand tiger sharks in the womb have long been known to eat other embryonic sharks in the womb. At first it was believed to be an advantage for the developing shark to become large enough at birth to be able to fend off predation. Now it is thought to ALSO insure that the first male shark to fertilize the female eliminates the younger sharks of another male. But that strategy is limited in scope.)
And even cooler, the cannibal strategy isn't such a high percentage that a majority of the non-cannibal tadpoles are eaten. So nature provides that if the conditions are right that a massive number of tadpoles mature into adults. Thus creating another strategy of survival.
As stock purchasers and sellers perhaps we are both tadpoles and piranhas of various types, using various strategies... I tied it back to the stock market.
