Look at this obstinate cave salamander, she has relatably refused to move from her nook in a pitch-dark cave for more than seven years
An olm. Photo: IvanaOK/Getty Images/iStockphoto Not often does a day go by when I’m not deeply inspired by an animal. There was the famously dumb horse who had a proclivity for dramatically falling to the ground. And the aggressively flirty pig. And today, the obstinate cave salamander that has refused to move from her nook in a pitch-dark cave for more than seven years.
According to The Independent, a team of scientists at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary came across the sedentary amphibian while studying rare aquatic cave salamanders, known as olms, in a cave in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Olms, as a whole, are a pretty lazy species. “They are hanging around, doing almost nothing,” lead scientist Gergely Balázs told The New Scientist.
I suspect you may have a few questions: Didn’t this olm have shit to do, like eat and hang out with her friends and I don’t know, move? As it turns out, not really. According to The Independent, olms can go years without eating, and no other animals find them appetizing; also, they hate socializing.
So presumably, our slothful queen hasn’t had the desire to reproduce in the past seven-plus years. Or perhaps she has shunned procreation altogether! I mean, I probably would too if it meant I could go years without moving.
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