Feathers?
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The largest land animal today is an african elephant which is 14 feet tall. Brachiosaurus was 50 feet tall. They would need to eat an order of magnitude more because the cost of mobility increases with weight.
Penguins, seals, and whales (and to a lesser extent hippos) can maintain this ratio because it gives them bouyancy while travelling in water.
Plus, Hippos and Elephants are actually pretty big boned.
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Would the hippos be chihuaha-sized? Then, without question, the hippos. There's no way they can make sounds as annoying as an angry chihuaha, let alone a horde.
Can confirm. We had an infestation of house hippos last year and didn't even notice them until half way through winter and realizing all of our mittens were missing.
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I don't think getting chewed to death is fast. I'd rather fight the chihuahuas 1000x
We are talking up to 2,000 Chihuahua that are determined to fight you at the cost of their lives. They will not get scared, they will not run, they understand it is you or them and there are 10,000lbs of them.
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There are markers on the bones based on fat weight. This wasn't known originally when creating the "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs though.
Wait, people say "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs?!
Even if they're inaccurate, they're my homies.
Also I'm referring to the 1990s Jurassic Park. I haven't kept up with modern versions.
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Scary, but not a serious threat.
You can kick a Chihuahua pretty far, a hippo suffers from no such vulnerability.
New TV show ideas: how far can you punt this animal.
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There are markers on the bones based on fat weight. This wasn't known originally when creating the "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs though.
Are there new illustrations out there based on this? I wanna see the chub dinos!
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All Yesterdays is exactly this. The first half reimagines dinos from how we traditionally view them (leaning into things like feathers and a t-rex sleeping) and the second half reinterprets contemporary fauna based on their skeletons to demonstrate how wrong we might be about dinos. It's a great coffee table book.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Obligatory All Tomorrows mention, one of the most existentially terrifying works of speculative scifi I've ever read, drawn by the same paleo artist.
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Wait, people say "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs?!
Even if they're inaccurate, they're my homies.
Also I'm referring to the 1990s Jurassic Park. I haven't kept up with modern versions.
Having kept up with the new ones myself, I can only recommend you don't.
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We are talking up to 2,000 Chihuahua that are determined to fight you at the cost of their lives. They will not get scared, they will not run, they understand it is you or them and there are 10,000lbs of them.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]According to Wikipedia, the Chihuahua weighs up to 3kg whereas an adult male hippo weighs 1500kg. I'm going to consider these numbers for our speculative (hopefully) fight and assume I'll be fighting 500 chihuahuas or 1 hippo. I found that
A Chihuahua’s top speed on record is 23.72 mph
and
Hippos are reported to reach 30 km/h (19 mph) but this has not been confirmed
This data seems important to determine the outcome of the fight, since either of them would likely outrun me and I'd be tempted to get to high ground in both cases. Additionally,
[Hippos] are incapable of jumping but can walk up steep banks
and
A Chihuahua can typically jump up to 2 feet high
so a high enough stage would probably be enough to stay out of reach. But if I must fight each one on their own terms, the hippo would probably choose the river, and the chihuhua would choose Chihuhua City, which I assume contains, like any city, high grounds of all sorts, putting me to relative safety. This is why I choose to fight 500 chihuhuas
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog_breed)
https://thechihuahuashack.com/how-fast-can-a-chihuahua-run/
https://chihuahuaguide.com/how-high-can-chihuahuas-jump/ -
New TV show ideas: how far can you punt this animal.
I can tell you from personal experience that I can punt an aggressive juvenile possum about 30ft(I think it was diseased?). Low bar, but any relevant data is useful.
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That skeleton is surprising - I just thought they had very slopey shoulders.
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According to Wikipedia, the Chihuahua weighs up to 3kg whereas an adult male hippo weighs 1500kg. I'm going to consider these numbers for our speculative (hopefully) fight and assume I'll be fighting 500 chihuahuas or 1 hippo. I found that
A Chihuahua’s top speed on record is 23.72 mph
and
Hippos are reported to reach 30 km/h (19 mph) but this has not been confirmed
This data seems important to determine the outcome of the fight, since either of them would likely outrun me and I'd be tempted to get to high ground in both cases. Additionally,
[Hippos] are incapable of jumping but can walk up steep banks
and
A Chihuahua can typically jump up to 2 feet high
so a high enough stage would probably be enough to stay out of reach. But if I must fight each one on their own terms, the hippo would probably choose the river, and the chihuhua would choose Chihuhua City, which I assume contains, like any city, high grounds of all sorts, putting me to relative safety. This is why I choose to fight 500 chihuhuas
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog_breed)
https://thechihuahuashack.com/how-fast-can-a-chihuahua-run/
https://chihuahuaguide.com/how-high-can-chihuahuas-jump/Philadelphia Zoo says male hippos can get up to 9,900lbs, so we are talking potentially under 2k Chihuahua.
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Okay, but would you rather fight a pack of Chihuahuas or an equivalent number of mini-hippos?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]House hippos are even smaller than chiwawas
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True, that's why elephants hunt lions for protein.
What? Can you source that? I’m extremely curious if that’s a real thing.
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What? Can you source that? I’m extremely curious if that’s a real thing.
Elephants eat plants. They’re sarcastically pointing out how stupid the meathead bro’s statement that being big requires eating meat was.
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Kind of hard to maintain that bulk on leaves and grass, bud. I guess it would help them with predators, though.
Please do the world a favor and stick to a carnivore diet. We would be subjected to you for much less time as a result. Maybe try some high meat, I hear that really activates your creatines or whatever.
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Elephants eat plants. They’re sarcastically pointing out how stupid the meathead bro’s statement that being big requires eating meat was.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Ah. I was turbo-scrolling and didn’t catch the context. Thanks!
Edit: oh, and the reason I found this plausible is that some herbivores are opportunistic carnivores and will eat anything given the chance.
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Ah. I was turbo-scrolling and didn’t catch the context. Thanks!
Edit: oh, and the reason I found this plausible is that some herbivores are opportunistic carnivores and will eat anything given the chance.
To provide more context: never engage with finitebanjo. They are the human equivalent of a cork board with pictures and a bunch of red yarn connecting it all together.
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Having kept up with the new ones myself, I can only recommend you don't.
God they're bad.
But I loved the super-military dino they had trained that would attack someone if you pointed a rifles laser at them.
Like - you're already pointing a gun at them.
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Interesting thought, but don't penguins have feathers for insulation from cold weather so without the feathers they probably look less chunky.
Penguins without their feathers are still pretty chonk, and decidedly penguin-shaped.
Their feathers (adult feathers, anyhow) are actually rather short but their coverage is extremely dense. The feathers make them waterproof, not insulated. Their thick skin and layer of fat is what makes them coldproof.
