Before you fantasize how this could be used in humans in the future, producing that single thought cost more energy than leaf sheep produce via photosynthesis in their lifetime - feeding of it requires energy efficiency any warm-blooded animal just isn’t suited for.
Still cute though.
This is a god damn Pokemon.
Looks more like it has a cows face. Like in cartoons. Two tiny black eyes close together and big nostrils far apart
Kinda but not quite:
Costasiella kuroshimae are capable of a physiological process called kleptoplasty, in which they retain the chloroplasts from the algae they feed on. Absorbing the chloroplasts from algae then enables them to indirectly perform photosynthesis.[6]
Source: Costasiella kuroshimae
So vampire photosynthesis.
That’s metal af.
kleptoplasty
I like how it’s appropriate to call it “-plasty” twice (first in the referring to chloroplasts sense, and then again in the plastic surgery sense).
Looks like the head gear piece my shaman wore in wow a long time ago
It looks like it was designed by Aardman Animations.
It’s Shaun the Slug!
Cool, now I know how to call my spaceship in the next space game I’m gonna play.
