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[–] 8 points 1 week ago

"shot through the heart, but it's too late..."

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Humans are deer
    humans can write
    I wanna hear deer poetry

    💁‍♂️ go read it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    It's all well and good until some doetress gets photographed eating a baby rabbit. 🤫

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    Don't get me wrong, it's natural and happens all the time to fend off starvation (or, they're bored), but the general image of deer* is far more Disneyfied. 😅

    *from the old Sami/Laplander word for "animal", btw 😜

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Herbivores in general, actually. I once read a scientific paper where the study was meant to observe wolves in the Canadian winter which accidentally found rabbits (or maybe hares?) coming to the bird carcasses they set out for bait to eat.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago*

    Heck, the difference between herbivores and carnivores is mostly about their lifestyle and adaptations

    Fun fact: Brown Bears are the least meat-eating carnivorous animal (hypocarnivore, with meat being about 30% of their diet)

    Other fun fact: Polar Bears are the most meat-eating carnivorous animal (hypercarnivore, with meat being about 90-100% of their diet)

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  • Yuuup. Critters gonna critter. "Herbivore", "carnivore", all of it: human sounds declaring observed patterns that allegedly indicate predilection/tendency, as usual. In short, mostly true often enough, but far less often as it implies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    What if we used technology to more effectively communicate with animals. Microsoft (ew, I know) was doing cool stuff with adaptive controllers a few years ago.

    What if that could be used to train animals to communicate? We could help them develop language and work together, maybe even drive cars and operate cranes one day.

    Nah, let’s blow up brown kids instead /s

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