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Did you know thast an Emu can outrun a pair of dingoes for 45 minutes?

Started by babyjesus, July 06, 2016, 06:29:15 PM

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Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 08, 2016, 01:29:56 PM
I get what the OP's saying though. But the impressiveness is largely an artifact of civilization. Apparently a human can keep up a brisk pace for a very long time if civilization hasn't made them fat. I read (take this with a grain of salt however as I can no longer recall the source. Also I've summarized this kind of badly.) somewhere that early human hunters relied a lot on the trick of just following an animal continually until it was too tired to keep outrunning them

yeah, we are endurance predators, our stamina is actually kind of terrifying.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Pæs on July 08, 2016, 02:34:07 AM
Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 07, 2016, 04:12:55 PM
It's just a damned good thing for us that insects aren't as big as emus, and that very few birds are. We wouldn't stand a chance in hell in the Cretaceous period.
Jesus Christ, it's only by sheer luck that badgers aren't the size of blue whales; imagine the scale of their dens, undermining cities and incorporating our subways into their enormous subterranean underworlds. Why, if horses were the size of ants, wouldn't they be easy to lose? Imagine an eagle with the head of a tiger. Really puts humanity into perspective, doesn't it?

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 08, 2016, 06:09:20 PM
But among the unknowables is what impact 5 degrees may have on the proliferation and speed of insects. Or cold blooded birds. I kinda worry that even 5 degrees may tip the scale in favor of our cold blooded cousins. When I worry about GW anyway.

Allll those cold-blooded birds flying around outside. SO many of them. Cold-blooded birds.


Zerohedge-san here gotta be trolling.

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"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Freeky

Holy shit, I missed that.  What the actual fuck.

:lulz:  Well played, bro.  Well played.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

The only cold-blooded birds we really have around here, though, are these guys:

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Freeky

Those cold-blooded birds are so frickin' pretty! 

Here's one that we have:


Junkenstein

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Freeky


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Freeky on July 09, 2016, 08:02:27 PM
It's so happy!

Check out THIS cold-blooded bird!



That is a very pretty bird! Do you guys remember when I had that asshole cold blooded bird, Merciful?


"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Freeky

That had to have been before I joined, because I don't remember you ever having a bird, but it's gorgeous.

I saw the most adorable cold-blooded bird picture:


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Freeky on July 10, 2016, 01:27:53 AM
That had to have been before I joined, because I don't remember you ever having a bird, but it's gorgeous.

I saw the most adorable cold-blooded bird picture:



Awwww that is probably the cutest cold-blooded bird ever!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Freeky

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