• sexy_peach@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    btw that’s not how gregarious animals work. Many do run but they also protect their young

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    9 months ago

    I laughed so hard at how grossly wrong the general idea is being presented in this meme. It’s like the repetition of “alpha wolf” myth.

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      9 months ago

      The fact that we have a gif of a herd animal plowing through a younger one and leaving it the the wolves may not be representative of the species as a whole, but good enough for a comic IMO

      Edit: wrong gif and I can’t get the right one to upload. If you search buffalo snow wolves gif it should come up

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      Indeed. My favorite part of nature shows as a kid was watching predators for after the young animals and get absolutely wailed on by the older ones. Never saw a documentary where they just left them behind unless it was completely hopeless, and often still not.

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          9 months ago

          The juxtaposition of these posts just below the gif of the bison KOing the other, smaller one, and leaving it to the wolves just above is, I think, even funnier than the comic.

          Now I suddenly want to resurrect the Baghdad Bob meme template, but…effort.

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        9 months ago

        I know it’s a joke but with the caption “nature in a nutshell” makes it as though this is perfectly legit and plants the wrong idea to people that all animal species do this. Some species would instinctively leave their young but not buffaloes. Buffaloes rarely leave their young to predators unless they know it’s totally hopeless to save them. This meme could have picked a more accurate species that does this escape tactic.

        It seems like this joke is a recent perpetuation. I’ve seen in Reddit talk about it as well.

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              9 months ago

              Well you see, son… When a mama chicken and a daddy road love each other very much…

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            9 months ago

            Yeah I saw one crossing the road in a city I used to live in. I didn’t ask why it was (cause it’s rude to impose) but I could clearly see that it was just trying to get to the other side.

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          9 months ago

          Basically. Who the hell goes “well achully…” when they hear a joke? It’s annoying.

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    9 months ago

    Is that a Bison? They famously protect their young. Though sometimes they make mistakes.

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    9 months ago

    Nah that is more like human society. Mammals and birds generally defend their young.

    Humans give their young student loan debt because economists said it praises their God.