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 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Good Dinosaur reference?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months ago
How do you feel about manatees?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months ago
Capybaras are awesome!
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Petting a manatee is a $10,000 fine. No touch.
mech@feddit.org 10 months 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 10 months ago
There’s a band of capibaras living in my city… they already killed 2 people.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Capybara are dangerous?! Do they kill by biting or what?
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 10 months ago
I need a source for this desparately
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Elephants are herbivores too. And you definitely do not fuck with elephants in the wild.
87Six@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Don’t kink shame me
u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Remember, the wise phrase of “If not friend, why friend-shaped?” is not only for bears.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Bear hug” is a wrestling move after all.
ameancow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And also why, “little puppy kisses” is not in fact, a wrestling move.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
I distinctly remember a horse eating a baby chicken.
Seleni@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
...ffs, we only just discovered a new species that had been in the stomach juices of another big lizard...
switcheroo@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Edvard Munch inspired parts of this cartoon, and I like it.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I was there.
65000000 years ago.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They might have been dolphins of the time.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
What’s going on in panel 4 with the extra limbs?
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
compressing two frames of animation in one, arms out wide then down to stomp
ameancow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
arms out wide then down to stomp
Shaka, when the walls fell!
Brahvim@lemmy.kde.social 10 months ago
Doomers ready with the letter “A”:
FatVegan@leminal.space 10 months ago
It would be kinda funny to make A.I look like bad drawings to make them seem more real.
wieson@feddit.org 10 months ago
Stomping with the hind leg
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
c/noncrediblearchaeology
stringere@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Hippos are absolutely vicious but most people assume they’re fat and gentle herbivores.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’m going to keep assuming they were nice and there’s nothing you can do about it
idunnololz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
#notallbrachiosaurus
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This made me think of the episode Plague of Madness from Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months ago
Moose 💀
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 10 months 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 10 months ago
...thank you, Rimmer...
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Goose 🪿
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Cows are only that way because we fucked with their DNA…