Comment on Sleep well

• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s probably referring to when deer shed their antler skin, but then the part where it gets up and walks into the river is probably made up from how metal the rest of the story is

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thats probably the most likely explanation for a deer attacking a tree for seemingly no reason, and messy chunks of flesh getting everywhere… but yeah, the standing on two legs thing…

    … not strictly impossible, but… rather unlikely?

    Deer can rear up on their hind legs, but I can’t say I’ve ever heard of one that can actually… locomote, ambulate, walk in that manner.

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• lath@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Theoretically, one can move around with only the cerebellum remaining intact. For a short while at least.

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  • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, that is why I left a little wiggle room in my statements. But coordinated movements when the cranial cavity is so damaged that chunks of brain are spilling out? A deer’s brain isn’t even very large. There’s hardly chunks to be had there. I dunno there’s some chance that the deer was already dead and this is just some sort of postmortem spasms. But I am just doubtful over the whole thing as written.

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    • lath@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m sure there’s a set of circumstances that can make it possible, but yeah, people generally like to embellish our stories.

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• i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fair enough. If I witnessed a deer bashing its own brains out, I would definitely be so fucking freaked out my memory would be doing wild shit about the encounter, too. Filling in details that weren’t there, not noticing that only part of the brain fell out, just completely unreliable.

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