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Biology of the Post-it Note

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Biology of a post-it note.

The Post-it note (Nota talea) is a common species in the office ecosystem. It lives in a pack, but when separated, It can survive on its own by pushing its face firmly onto any smooth surface. Nota talea  uses its enzymes, which covered its face with a sticky film, to extract nutrients from the surface.
Nota talea is mainly a parasitic organism, but is also known to hunt in packs when food is scarce. Nota talea is sometimes found on the back of the office worker (Homo sapiens-muna), but is often removed before it started extracting nutrients from this organism. There are cases known where the Nota talea covered the whole ecosystem to find enough nutrients to feed itself.

Known predators for Nota talea, are the pencil (Duco creta) the pen (Duco proprius) and the garbage can (Archa quisquiliae)

Duco creta and Duco proprius both hunt for Nota talea in the same way, by stabbing the back of its prey, they inject lethal poison and wait for the prey to die.After that, the predator will crawl on top of its prey and start to obtain nutrients through its skin.

Archa quisqiuliae is a feared omnivorous organism. Anything that gets trapped in its stomach (which contains 95% of its body) will be digested without any chance of survival. Every now and then, Archa quisquiliae excretes its stomach and the leftovers will be eaten by its big brother the garbage container (Archa ingens) to extract any leftover nutrients.

Every half year, Nota talea will travel to other ecosystems to reproduce. For reproduction, the sticky film consisting of enzymes, will change. Instead of enzymes, the film will be containing gametes. When male and female Nota talea stick their faces, covered in gametes, together, Insemination happens.
After  the insemination, their faces remain stuck to each other and they both die to serve as a safe environment for the fetus to evolve, and to serve as food for the fetus.
One pair of Nota talea can produce around 200 babies.

The newborn Nota talea live on top of each other and are usually collected by the office worker and brought to a nearby  office ecosystem.
Biology of a post-it note.
Once published on my old account, which I deleted.

I did my homework! I searched the latin names in an online dictionary so it makes sense when you translate it :)

I really enjoyed making this back then :)

Probably, I will be making more of these for another ecosystem: The bathroom!
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Miyiku's avatar
I like it! Very creative XD