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>friendly fire: disabled
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>>4788198
i'd wring the neck of any creature that did that to me
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Why are hippos so dangerous? Are humans even that nutritious for them to look at us as food so often? Or are they just assholes
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>aryanimals
Stay.
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>>4788200
They're extremely territorial, fast and strong
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>>4788199
That is incredibly based
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>>4788200
Very territorial and are quicker than they look
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>>4788198
>So small and already has that murderous intent from their species
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>>4788200
If you had to live in Africa you'd become a massive asshole too.
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>>4788205
It's how you raise them
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>>4788199
you wont do shit. Its hippo parents would maul you to death
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>>4788200
Humans are adapted to hunting mega fauna, to the point where the extinction of all megafauna coincides with the arrival of humans to the region.
The only place this isn't true is Africa, this is presumably because the megafauna of Africa had the benefit of adapting to humans as we evolved alongside them.

Hippos survived humanity, because they learned to instinctively treat us as enemies.
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>>4788200
Africa and Australia are the thunderdome of animal ecology, you have to be fast, strong and territorial to survive.
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>>4788209
>deviations of 10,000+ years
lmao
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>>4788198
you have learned well my child
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>>4788210
Oh yeah, explain this
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>>4788205
purely economic factors
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>>4788209
Or maybe the "humans" in Africa are just incompetent retards
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>>4788213

You know how only the strong are able to reproduce? Well there's also the crafty little rapists who do it too.
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>>4788213
The other animals couldnt being themselves to bring this little chad to extinction purely because he be stylin'
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>friendly fire: enabled
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>game has dance emotes
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>>4788213
pokemon ass bird
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>>4788209
How'd we end up in indo malaya 13000 years before the previous step in the path to get there, ???? I know it's a range but if there's reason to believe it whips out further than any other step on the map other than africa then what sense does that land expansion make
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>game has a racing segment
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>>4788209
megafauna btfo
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>>4788219
this webm has some racist vibes
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>>4788209
i really want to see a mega sloth
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>resources acquired
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>THAT water level
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>>4788224
you're right, white women should not be allowed to twerk. thats cultural appropriation, i'll try to find the same thing with a negress for next thread
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It isnt as fun when its on the correct board. I am leaving.
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wtf this is the first time i see mods move a thread to /an/ instead of /b/
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well, they let us have 2 threads at the same time go to limit yesterday, can't expect it every day.
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FOR
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>moved to /an/
Now this is new. Better than being outright deleted though.
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>>4788233
not true they get paid in estrogen pills now
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>>4788209
It's kinda cool how Greek myths have native lions in then. The memory persisted through oral traditions for millennia.
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>>4788238
Romans/Greeks still had them so it’s not that surprising.
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>>4788198
What shithole was this moved from?
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>>4788222
God I love Orangutans.
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>>4788219
Snownigger
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>>4788267
We love you too, bro
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>>4788260
/v/
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>>4788274
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>>4788238
The last confirmed sighting of a European lion was around 500AD, and it wasn't a freak occurrence either, the people who recorded it were out lion hunting.
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>>4788267
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>>4788200
Also, hippos don't really eat animals as big as us, they just love murder.
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>>4788209
>measuring time in kazillions of years
Bad chart. Hard to believe humans only got to Maddie's Gas Car 4 kazillion years ago.
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>>4788209
How did the megafauna adapt to humans?

The answer is, they didn't. The humans never adapted to exterminate the megafauna because a lack of harsh winters did not give them cause to stockpile excess kills and the ridiculous amount of space allowed threatened populations to simply leave.

But now those saving graces are vanishing as africa overpopulated and they need to kill more animals to have enough food, including by increasing the efficiency of budget agriculture by killing off predators and large herbivores rather than using better protected farming methods (like us, 99% of our livestock are in CAFOs, not being ranched out there with wolves and bears)
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>>4788226
how can i get my penis to do this?
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>>4788200
They are assholes.
shitbulls, shitppos, w*sps and tiger sh*rks are simply evolutionary demons.
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>>4788198
>PvP: off
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>>4788383
Alex and Marty
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>>4788227
"To the depths"
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>>4788334
Overt aggressiveness towards humans that hippos have is an adaptation against human threats.
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>>4788340
>her penis can't lick strawberries
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>>4788200
We are just tiny little meat bags to them so are they just mean or are they smart enough to know how dangerous we are?
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>>4788330
jej
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>>4788312
Seems like it could go wrong very quickly but still cute
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>>4788320
>Maddie’s Gas Car
Audible kek
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>>4788315
Sometimes they will eat us for the hell of it though.
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>weddell_seal has left the server
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>>4788218
>enemy can do rapid chip damage
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>>4788632
She hasn't switched to electric yet.
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>>4788281
lol it's always /v/
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>>4788991
Sometimes /tv/ too. Only one letter off. Poetic.
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>>4788227
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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>>4788334
>How did the megafauna adapt to humans?
By not putting up with Humanity's shit.
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>>4788227
the kraken!
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>>4788395
There are/were overtly aggressive animals on every continent. Believe me, if humans want hippos dead, hippos die. It's probably easier to take out a hippo than a wooly mammoth.

African megafauna just never had to put up with late ice age humans stockpiling meat for winters and africa is a larger and therefore more resilient biosphere. Nor did they have to put up with seething farmers going on extermination campaigns because something trampled their crops or ate their free ranging chickens.

Now humans are much more numerous there, and have begun finding excuses to stockpile meat and control the native fauna like pests, so african megafauna are finally going extinct. It's not that the native animals were better adapted to humans. It's that humans fit better into the environment by not having any reasons to destroy it.
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>>4788198
>>4788212
we should bred hippos to be super tiny
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>>4790588
boy have I got some news for you!
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>>4790588
Would a stallion meeting a mare like that in heat think "nah, I'm not gonna tap that, it's silly" or would the hormones in the air still get the better of him
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>>4790582
Can’t tell if this is a troll or real
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>>4788209
bad chart
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>>4788267
so when are you starting warfare against indonesia?
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>>4788200
It's not about food it's about violence
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>>4788222
They are so SILLY
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>>4790588
>recreating shitbulls
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>>4790588
>>4790826
they‘re going to toadline horses soon
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>>4790743
I’d be up for some Dutch conquests part 2 edition
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In the future we will genetically engineer them to be dwarfed and friendly. Hippos will be a common sight in every city and we will live in harmony with the hippos.
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>>4790592
>those teeth
Still not safe
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>>4788219
I bet every straight guy who went through this thread watched this one longer than any other webm or with more intention. We are monkey.
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>>4790593
I had a big quarterhorse growing up that was terrified of miniature horses
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>>4791109
FUUUUUUCK
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>>4791099
Goalposts: moved. If you want to start selectively breeding them, you've still got nature doing 90% of the work for you. Ungrateful nig.
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>>4790863
Good, every animal should be toadlined
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>>4788228
You can tell this is an African elephant because it tries to steal her phone.
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>>4790863
>soon
horses have been getting smashed and slammed since before mr toad was a glint in juan gotty's eye.
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>>4788238
The chart is (put generously) oversimplified. Greek lions were still very much a thing in the late Bronze Age setting of Greek hero stories.
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>>4788200
They don’t want to eat us they’re just mean as hell
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>>4788232
What an apex predator.
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>>4788219
Me on the left



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