You guys ever just look at animals and go "man they're fucking weird?"I do that with elephants a lot.>fuckhuge>big floppy ears>20ft nose they can also use to grab shit>giant tusks too because being fuckhuge wasnt enough of a defense mechanism>bodies look like duffel bags half full of sandWhat are some animals that make you guys say wtf?
Agree on elephants. Motherfuckers used these things as siege weaponry. Crazy to think about.
>>5164656I also forgot to mention they can apparently lift ~700lbs with their trunk alone, meaning they could easily yank a human up and thrash em around. Imagine how fucking unstoppable these things were in a gunless world.
>>5164657I can lift that
>>5164661That's nothing, I lifted your mom last night
>>5164657Did you forget we wiped out the mastodons with pointy sticks?
What can an elephant actually do though? If you hug its hind legs it can't reach you with its truck, and its too sluggish to get away while you repeatedly pommel it from behind. If you stand to the side of its hind legs then it won't even be able to hit you with a back kick. If it raises its leg to perform a stomp then all you have to do is back off until it finishes its slam, then move back in to continue punching.
These motherfuckers
>>5164778>maybe we should just adapt to eating grass instead>no fuck that long necksevolution is so goofy sometimes
>>5164652Every time I’m hungover I get overwhelmed with this feeling about nearly every animal.Dog legs are the weirdest common ones, look at that shit like what
>>5164652Great apes.
>>5164928Is this why we hunted gorillas and orangutans to near-extinction? Because we're weirded out by them?
>>5164656People still use them as transport and beasts of burden, I’d probably trust an elephant to move a plow or a harvester more than a cow desu
>>5164928Wasn't there an Ai-powered image detector that was mistaking Black people for great apes?
>>5164704Probably drop its weight ontop of you and fucking kill you by accident
>>5165284When iPhones first started automatically making albums based on what it thought was in your images, they'd routinely put photos containing black people into albums labelled "Gorillas".IIRC, they ended up removing the category of Gorillas instead of actually fixing this.
>>5164928Anyone remember that anon who insisted all apes don't exist?
>>5164704Lmfao love your posts in these threads
>>5164704been playing too much dark souls
Humans are the real weirdos of the animal kingdom.>bipedal but no tail (how do they balance?)>giant nose between two giant eyes (but they see and smell terrible)>long gangly arms>foot looks like it went through a botched surgery>shave off their own whiskers and fur (they don't use their whiskers for feeling, and their fur doesn't keep them warm)>wear the fur of other animals, even when they find that same fur uncomfortable>speak in loud amusical voices>consume toxic substances only to die from those same substances decades later>are so violent they invented 'sports' to regulate their violent tendencies and give them an outlet for nationalism and warmongering>look absolutely ridiculous when fat, which is oftenNone of you have any room to talk, whatsoever.
>>5165635human eyesight is actually pretty good, we can see things in hd unlike most other cordates, most animal camouflage doesnt work on humanswe can also smell rain
>>5165459Found ’im.>>4755898
Tell me this doesn’t look like a pokemon or some kind of water fairy
Chameleons. Their ability to change color is probably the least weird thing about them. >independently moving eyes>laterally compressed body>long-ass ballistic tongue that works even when the rest of the animal isn’t at operating temperature >pincers for hands/feet>a lot of them have horns/sails/other cool ornaments>perfectly adapted for a life in the trees>there’s one that said “fuck all that, I’m going to become terrestrial in one of the most barren deserts on Earth”
>>5165780shoutout to the Labord's chameleon for being a seasonal tetrapod>hatches in November>sexually mature by January>dies in February/March
>>5164671*The last few ones after most were wiped out by environmental changes
>>5165250Because black people in africa think of them as competition, or they want their meat for "magic" powers
>>5165666It's not that good compared to birds, which have both higher quality eyesight as well as the ability to see using four color cones rather than just three.Human eyesight is only good compared to other mammals that tend to rely on hearing and/or smell. Mammal eyesight as whole is really bad, the result of a period of evolving for nocturnal environments which meant prioritizing recognition of movement rather than clarity of image.
>>5164671We wiped them out by using too much hairspray
>>5165780>>5165799Arguably the coolest animal
>>5165971Why does its face look so human
