How to Pick the Right Moment (Even Animals Know This)

There’s a worm in the Fiji Islands that lives its entire life under coral rocks in the deep sea. Once a year, in November, exactly one week after the full Moon, at dawn, the back half of its body breaks off, swims to the surface, releases its eggs, and dies.

Every single year. Same timing. No calendar, no clock—just an instinctive understanding of when t…