chadigator

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• Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unable to open mouth when it’s held shut by even minimal exterior force

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  • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait, really?

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    • Triyfer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes. Their jaw muscles are designed to hold prey, so their bite down is incredibly powerful. Unfortunately, most of their muscle mass is dedicated to that single action, not the other way. That’s why you can hold their mouths shut with rubber bands or your bare hands, if need be.

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    • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apparently an elastic band could hold it shut. If I recall correctly. Now saying out loud I’m not sure that I did.

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  • rudyharrelson@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I'm sure not gonna be the one to get close enough to hold its mouth shut. No siree.

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They just reached top possible performance for their specific niche. They’re basically perfect, so there is little need for evolution to change anything - random selection keeps selecting the same traits for millions of years because those are the ones that work and manage to get them to reproduce.

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  • Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly! They didn’t explore the “aerial flight” or “beautiful colors” tech tree at all, but are maxed on armor and chomping.

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    • DroneRights@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are too made of beautiful colours

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  • kadu@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not actually necessarily true. Even if we adopt this “top possible performance” thing, which isn’t how organisms work, you can’t guarantee their current set of traits would be this optimal maximum.

    Evolution can only work with traits already present, or small additions or deletions. It can’t jump around. Meaning, for instance, perhaps a crocodile capable of shooting a literal stream of acid would be even more optimized for this environment - but such a trait can’t appear out of thin air, and the necessary stepping stones won’t be selected.

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    • EpicGamer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They might also be more succesfull if they can put sticks and stones together to eventually create a military industrial complex in order to hunt prey using a 50 Caliber machine gun.

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    • repungnant_canary@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds like machine learning with a very small learning rate. You will most likely end up in a local minimum ie. no acid shooting (it would be cool and terrifying)

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• MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another fun fact about crocodiles, and alligators is that they actually have the immune systems that conservatives think they have.

  But for real, they are trying to make new antibiotics from crocodile and alligator blood.

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• moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re kinda scared of hippos, so much so that hippo baby’s use them for teething and they just kinda take it.

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• Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Living every rich man's dream - lie in a pool all day and go safari hunting without a licence. What more could one possibly need??

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• zib@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When you reach max level, you stop leveling.

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• saltnotsugar@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Boring animal: Chomp!

  Chadodile: Chomp Spinny-Spinny!

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