Big Bird

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• Lexam@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So they admit there are predatory Muppets.

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  • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I reacted the same when I found out that Teletubbies are actually babies, implying that there are mature, adult Teletubbies that we don’t see.

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I believe the proper name is “Teletuborians”

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cookie monster is definitely a predator.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It used to be more obvious than it is now.

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  • NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look at Animal.

    They keep him drugged up, and he’s still barely controlled. Without the darts every 3 hours, he’d tear everyone else to shreds just to feed the hunger within him.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well the Count is a vampire…

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The world, too…

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    cbsnews.com/…/elmo-puppeteer-kevin-clash-cleared-…

    Cleared by the statute of limitations…

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The puppeteer was cleared. Elmo is a serial molester though.

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  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Predators have forward-facing eyes.

    Muppets have forward-facing eyes.

    The science is clear.

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• joao@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Big bird has forward facing eyes, which is usually the mark of a predator.

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  • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Elefants have them too! Image

    I’m sure there is an exception for creatures made from fabric and foam, somewhere.

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    • odium@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Makes sense. Evolution gives prey animals eyes with as wide a field of vision as possible, so they can detect predators better. Elephants are too large for predators to mess with and so is big bird.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

      I had to go look it up. Not sure that picture is accurate, mind, it’s the only one I could find. (Though lots of comments about herds being led by a blind elephant…. I’m sure there’s a joke in there.)

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe it evolved from a predatory ancestor and didn’t get selected for different position of the eyes?

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We know from Big Bird’s extended family that his species has a wide spread of individual variation, and given that none of them reside in the wild none of them are likely to suffer predation due to what would otherwise be a mal-adaptation, providing a springboard for even more genetic variation from generation to generation.

      Just look at how wildly different looking specific humans can be from one another, even within a single community.

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  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And dragons have wide-set eyes in pretty much every depiction. So that brings up the question: What was hunting all the dragons?

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• Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d hope they don’t allow predators on set, but we saw what happened at Nickelodeon with Dan Schneider.

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• NutWrench@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oscar the Grouch is a scavenger.

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what he wants you to think…

    Oscar is a form of Trapdoor Spider. He blends in with his environment until unsuspecting prey is near, then hauls them into his den to consume at his leisure.

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• Facky@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That honestly fits Big Bird’s personality.

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