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Levelskid

Levelskid

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  • Levelskid
    So, I was raking the leaves today when my neighbors' dogs (two males; one female) came running by to play in the pile. Cute.
    Levelskid
    Remind me not to get in the water with kangaroos. They like to drown creatures.
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    thejuice
    on youtube i saw a kangaroo try to drown a dog and its owner came up and punched it lol
    Levelskid
    Huntsman spiders are bloody huge! I hope they're gentle giants...
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    Dagan
    Dagan
    They are the bigger version of the US wolf spiders.
    TBRS1
    TBRS1
    Huntsman spiders can bite. It's like a bee sting (they rarely bite, though).

    They are very closely related to the Brown Recluse. Don't get bit by one of them. Their bite causes tissue necrosis, and that's gonna leave a mark.
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    Both my sister and I were bitten quite often when we were kids, we used to like playing with Huntsmans we caught in the house. I had no reaction at all to a bite, my sister used to get an itchy rash from a bite. There was no pain.
    Levelskid
    The tarantula hawk wasp is very much nightmare fuel (for spiders). They're basically xenomorphs.
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    And the Hunstman spider is the bane of all wasps, or anything else it fancies. They're extremely active hunters, I had one run up me one day and launch itself from my shoulder to catch a wasp that was hovering near me.

    FayetheADHDsquirrel
    FayetheADHDsquirrel
    Did you tell it "thank you" for making sure you didn't get stung?
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    We love our Huntsmans here, but even when you've grown up with them one running across your face in the middle of the night isn't pleasant. Our wasps won't attack humans unless you're trying to hurt them, but they do fill up tiny holes with mud. Key holes, power socket holes, etc. They're very inconvenient insects.
    Levelskid
    I can't believe the cute, little kiwi bird is related to the massive elephant bird.
    AGXStarseed
    AGXStarseed
    Well they are both birds, so it makes sense they share a relation.
    Besides, life on Earth has shown us plenty of examples of animals growing or shrinking into new forms as they adapt over millions of years to a changing world.
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    Hypnalis
    Moa - Wikipedia

    <...> suggesting that ratites did not diversify by vicariance during the breakup of Gondwana but instead convergently evolved flightlessness from ancestors that dispersed more recently by flying.
    Levelskid
    Well, I had to pick up my mom after her car broke down, so...pretty eventful day. Also, squirrels are cute.
    TBRS1
    TBRS1
    We call squirrels "tree bunnies" at my house because if we say the "s" word out loud, the dogs start body slamming against the windows.

    They haven't caught on to the subterfuge yet.
    FayetheADHDsquirrel
    FayetheADHDsquirrel
    @TBRS1 Don't introduce me to your dogs by my username!😳😥
    🤣
    Levelskid
    Foxes, rabbits, wolves, and bears are crepuscular (active in the dusk). I wonder why they evolved that way.
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    Many of Australia's animals are the same, dawn and dusk are the worst times to drive on country roads because that's when all the animals are on the move looking for fresh grazing. But we also have eagles big enough to attack and kill kangaroos.
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    thejuice
    Perhaps it's a sweet spot of being able to see and not seen
    Levelskid
    It's strange that prehistoric raccoons (chapalmalania) used to be the size of an American black bear.
    Levelskid
    Watermelons used to be hard like coconuts, and tasted bitter (I don't like watermelons on the best of days, but come on).
    Levelskid
    Bananas look very disgusting in the past compared to today (definitely couldn't make banana pudding/pie with those).
    tree
    tree
    How far in the past?
    A hundred years? Or what?
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    ??! Australia has several species of native banana including the Lady Finger and the Sugar Banana. They're smaller than those GM Chequita things, sweeter, stronger in flavour and don't have that horrible chalky texture from being force grown. I'll take them instead of what supermarkets have to offer any time.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    Natural foods don't look that disgusting. They're food.
    Levelskid
    Fruits and vegetables look really different from today (purple carrots?). Interesting.
    Levelskid
    I love turtles, but the stupendemys might be bit too big for my terrarium.
    Crossbreed
    Crossbreed
    They are pretty low-maintenance, now. You can probably get by without a terrarium... 🤔
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    l had a little box turtle. So cute.
    Levelskid
    The fact that the quetzalcoatlus used to be flying around in North America makes me rethink how evolution works in the place.
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    I had to look that up to find out what it was . :) I like the theory of how they walked when on the ground, it reminds me of watching fruit bats climb around in trees. When they're climbing they look more like monkeys than bats, using their hands the same way any four limbed creature would.

    Levelskid
    Prehistoric kangaroos (Procoptodon goliah) were about two to three times bigger than regular kangaroos, but apparently were too big to hop.
    Dagan
    Dagan
    I wonder if they also did the "come at me, bruh" muscle flex thing?
    Levelskid
    So, North America had lions, tigers, and bear (oh my). The Land Before Time definitely wasn't kid friendly.
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    tree
    tree
    The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (I saw an episode last night, for the first time I remember ever seeing this old show)
    is astonishingly benign. More gentle than a fairy tale. The one I saw, anyway.
    TBRS1
    TBRS1
    Don't forget saber toothed tigers and dire wolves!
    Crossbreed
    Crossbreed
    "It was no picnic down here either:..."
    That depends on who you ask...! ;)
    Levelskid
    Well, this is embarrassing. One of my mates came back from the pub, and collapsed onto my bed. Guess I'll take the couch.
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