One of the creatures I’m most worried about meeting camping or hiking is a moose. If they had a moose’s temperament they would have been one of the most terrifying things to walk the earth. They would also probably be getting hammered off fermented prehistoric fruit
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Submitted 16 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Good Dinosaur reference?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Giant modern herbivores I would willingly pet in the wild. Buffalo: no. Elephant: no. Reindeer: no. Rhino: no. Water buffalo: no. Giraffe: no. Hippo: no.
Based on modern examples, I’d stay the fuck away.
marcos@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
There’s a band of capibaras living in my city… they already killed 2 people.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
Capybara are dangerous?! Do they kill by biting or what?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
How do you feel about manatees?
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Petting a manatee is a $10,000 fine. No touch.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
100 pounds? Capybaras aren’t anywhere near the size of my other examples. But I’d stay out of the water with a manatee. I don’t think a manatee would care about my existence, but I’d be fine with petting one while I’m on a boat and it’s in the water.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Capybaras are awesome!
mech@feddit.org 15 hours ago
I’d much rather turn a blind corner and find myself standing right in front of a grizzly mother with her cubs than a hippo or a moose.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Elephants are herbivores too. And you definitely do not fuck with elephants in the wild.
u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Remember, the wise phrase of “If not friend, why friend-shaped?” is not only for bears.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“Bear hug” is a wrestling move after all.
Manjushri@piefed.social 7 hours ago
A lot of herbivores are occasional opportunistic carnivores. I bet that thing’s molars would make quick work of a human’s bones.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’ve seen videos of horses and deer eating small animals. I don’t remember which was which but one just picked like a pigeon up off the ground and started chewing.
Anyways, the point is that the herbivores we know today will often eat meat if it’s an easy meal. There’s no reason to think that a brachiosaurus would be any different.
the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I distinctly remember a horse eating a baby chicken.
Seleni@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Who started the assumption that herbivores were all sweet harmless cuddle bugs anyhow? Because they had obviously never interacted with a large herbivore before.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Most people aren’t ever really exposed to nature. You can have a cuddly dairy cow, but that’s not universal. Most encounters people have are going to be with animals that are docile and used to human interactions.
Also it is a little counter intuitive at first. Predators will retreat from a fight of it’s not worth the effort. Prey doesn’t retreat once the fight starts, because it’s literally life or death for them.
Manjushri@piefed.social 7 hours ago
You can have a cuddly dairy cow, but that’s not universal.
Far from universal. About 20 people die per year in the USA from attacks by cows. They are huge powerful animals that don’t generally don’t give a shit about people (they’re used to them, for the most part) but if they decide you are a threat to them or their calf, you’re fucked.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
People are gored by bison at Yellowstone every year. When I visited a few years ago, the rangers were actively having to tell people to avoid an elk who, with his harem, had decided to hang out in Fort Yellowstone for a couple days. People are dumb, or don’t think “wow that’s a 600+ lb animal the size of a minivan”.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
What’s going on in panel 4 with the extra limbs?
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
compressing two frames of animation in one, arms out wide then down to stomp
Brahvim@lemmy.kde.social 6 hours ago
Doomers ready with the letter “A”:
tetris11@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
I thought you meant “Akshually”…
FatVegan@leminal.space 6 hours ago
It would be kinda funny to make A.I look like bad drawings to make them seem more real.
wieson@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Stomping with the hind leg
notsure@fedia.io 16 hours ago
...that they survived into the fossil records is proof enough, stupid people think that anything that survived long enough to be in the fossil record was nice, uhh, i have a rust-colored bridge in San Fancisco for you...cheap...
notsure@fedia.io 16 hours ago
...ffs, we only just discovered a new species that had been in the stomach juices of another big lizard...
ladicius@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Edvard Munch inspired parts of this cartoon, and I like it.
fascicle@leminal.space 14 hours ago
My dog kills things for sport, she sees and she stomps, her brother is a big baby and just cries whenever she is doing something she shouldn’t. You can’t trust behavior so generally
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This made me think of the episode Plague of Madness from Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
c/noncrediblearchaeology
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
This is why cows kill so many people. Its really easy for an animal five or six times your weight to kill you just by interacting the same way it does with its own species.
That gets worse as the animal gets bigger.
And cows are basically calm little angels compared to say, hippos.
Bristlecone@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Moose 💀
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Anyone who’s played Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead will tell you: Moose are NOT to be messed with. Hoo boi.
In the season, if you see them across the map, pray they haven’t seen you.
I imagine this models a healthy respect for real moose(s?) too lol.
notsure@fedia.io 12 hours ago
...thank you, Rimmer...