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 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Good Dinosaur reference?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
How do you feel about manatees?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month ago
Capybaras are awesome!
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Petting a manatee is a $10,000 fine. No touch.
mech@feddit.org 1 month 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.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s a band of capibaras living in my city… they already killed 2 people.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Capybara are dangerous?! Do they kill by biting or what?
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 month ago
I need a source for this desparately
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Elephants are herbivores too. And you definitely do not fuck with elephants in the wild.
87Six@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Don’t kink shame me
u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Remember, the wise phrase of “If not friend, why friend-shaped?” is not only for bears.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Bear hug” is a wrestling move after all.
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And also why, “little puppy kisses” is not in fact, a wrestling move.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
I distinctly remember a horse eating a baby chicken.
Seleni@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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”.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Both of them attack. It’s just that carnivores treat it as you owe them money.
And herbivores treat it as they owe you money.
Manjushri@piefed.social 1 month ago
A lot of herbivores are occasional opportunistic carnivores. I bet that thing’s molars would make quick work of a human’s bones.
notsure@fedia.io 1 month 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 1 month ago
...ffs, we only just discovered a new species that had been in the stomach juices of another big lizard...
switcheroo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Herbivores will wreck your life if you mess with them. Remember that twit hunter who approached a deer and paid for it? Or all those other twits who need to be reminded bison in Yellowstone are NOT friendly just because they’re fluffy?
fascicle@leminal.space 1 month 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
ladicius@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Edvard Munch inspired parts of this cartoon, and I like it.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I was there.
65000000 years ago.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They might have been dolphins of the time.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
What’s going on in panel 4 with the extra limbs?
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
compressing two frames of animation in one, arms out wide then down to stomp
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
arms out wide then down to stomp
Shaka, when the walls fell!
Brahvim@lemmy.kde.social 1 month ago
Doomers ready with the letter “A”:
FatVegan@leminal.space 1 month ago
It would be kinda funny to make A.I look like bad drawings to make them seem more real.
wieson@feddit.org 1 month ago
Stomping with the hind leg
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
c/noncrediblearchaeology
stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Hippos are absolutely vicious but most people assume they’re fat and gentle herbivores.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m going to keep assuming they were nice and there’s nothing you can do about it
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
#notallbrachiosaurus
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This made me think of the episode Plague of Madness from Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month ago
Moose 💀
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 month 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 1 month ago
...thank you, Rimmer...
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Goose 🪿
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Do you have any data on that? This rando article says otherwise:
bbc.co.uk/…/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-54268…
And the examples given seem to mostly involve dogs which makes me kinda lean towards “It’s the human’s fault (cause they did not know how to control their dog(s))”
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I mean, the other part of “why do so many people die from cows” is along the lines of “They work with cow every day”.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Cows are only that way because we fucked with their DNA…