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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Bristlecone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Moose 💀

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    • notsure@fedia.io ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      ...thank you, Rimmer...

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• u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Remember, the wise phrase of “If not friend, why friend-shaped?” is not only for bears.

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• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Elephants are herbivores too. And you definitely do not fuck with elephants in the wild.

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• HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Good Dinosaur reference?

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How do you feel about manatees?

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Capybaras are awesome!

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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• ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Edvard Munch inspired parts of this cartoon, and I like it.

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• logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I distinctly remember a horse eating a baby chicken.

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• Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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• notsure@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨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...

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  • notsure@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ...ffs, we only just discovered a new species that had been in the stomach juices of another big lizard...

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• fascicle@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  c/noncrediblearchaeology

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