Feathers?
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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.
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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.
We know what you mean, new ones are Jurassic WORLD.
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They probably have some fat as well, but penguins are mostly insulated by their special feathers, which are adapted to prevent the cold water from actually reaching the skin.
Nah, you can look at pics of penguins that lost their feathers. Their body shape is from the fat.
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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.
The fuck? I just said you can't maintain a 50 foot animal covered in fat on 3 feet of grass and that makes me some kind of threat to your vegan lifestyle?
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A hippo would definitely be preferable. A fast and brutal death is preferable to getting your ankles bit out from under you by a thousand Chihuahua.
Now may or may not be a good time to remember that army ants exist.
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I think even scientists from the 80's and 90's were able to tell where some connective tissue would have been. So while they got the skin wrong, the overall shape wouldn't be TOO far off. Also, Jurassic Park is what Hollywood thought dinosaurs looked like, not necessarily palentologists.
To me, this article feels more like "We have an extremely limited idea of the amount of knowledge scientists have. Here's what a bunch of animals would look like if they were drawn by an idiot like we believe palentologists to be." Like, some of those are clearly trying to deliberately get it wrong, like the house cat.
Then again, it is BuzzFeed. It's not like they base their "journalism" on anything except feels.
The original Jurassic Park had a lot of support from paleontologists, and then deviated a bit but not enough for changing how "dinosaur" look in general.
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Obligatory All Tomorrows mention, one of the most existentially terrifying works of speculative scifi I've ever read, drawn by the same paleo artist.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Alt Shift X YouTube channel made an amazing video covering this book and since the book is mostly images, just watching this video is enough to understand the entire story.
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Checking out some walrus skeletons... yeah, I don't see why not.
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I approve of friend-shaped T-Rex.
Sure..."friend." I think upon meeting one, you would find how friendly the worm finds the songbird.
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They probably have some fat as well, but penguins are mostly insulated by their special feathers, which are adapted to prevent the cold water from actually reaching the skin.
They definitely do but my point was that the actual volume is from the fat so they are very much fat chonkers. The feathers are laid on top of each other to be waterproof so they don't really make up volume. You can check the pic below for reference (I am not sure how to add embed sorry).
I am not sure which would he primary insulator but fat definitely helps a lot and pretty commonly found in other animals for the same purpose. You can also see some featherless penguins in zoo are given cute little jackets lol.
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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.
they can base muscle attachement based on the bone marks, and scars, they can extrapolate weight from there.
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Isn't it primarily fat rather than feathers?
penguins do have one of the densest feathers per square centimeter of any bird.
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Obligatory All Tomorrows mention, one of the most existentially terrifying works of speculative scifi I've ever read, drawn by the same paleo artist.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Watching that before bed gave me a weird dream that fucked me up for a few days
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They definitely do but my point was that the actual volume is from the fat so they are very much fat chonkers. The feathers are laid on top of each other to be waterproof so they don't really make up volume. You can check the pic below for reference (I am not sure how to add embed sorry).
I am not sure which would he primary insulator but fat definitely helps a lot and pretty commonly found in other animals for the same purpose. You can also see some featherless penguins in zoo are given cute little jackets lol.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]their circulatory system is also pretty adapted for them, thier blood vessels usually can do countercurrent exchange of heat, rete mirabilis, this is common in cold adapted creatures. so they technically dont lose heat when it goes near the skin surface.
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there used to be a 6ft+ tall prehistoric penguin.
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Hippos are also deceptively docile looking creatures
wrote on last edited by [email protected]i think its them being deceptively fast on land they can outrun humans, consider they technically cant swim under water, they just are capable "running" in the water because thier bone density allows them to sink.
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i think its them being deceptively fast on land they can outrun humans, consider they technically cant swim under water, they just are capable "running" in the water because thier bone density allows them to sink.
Well it's also that they're highly aggressive animals that will attack (and kill) pretty much anything that gets just a little too close for their comfort, despite looking cute and cuddly.
