• riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    What the hell am I looking at?

    Why is it morphed with doge? Doge doesn’t talk like that. Why is there perspective on the text? Is this a pic of a screen? Is it supposed to be a deer? Antelope? Elk? All those animals still have ears. What is the thought process that leads someone to put forth the effort into making… this?

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    But it’s all good, they’re like 30 feet away. They can’t possibly hurt me from all the way over there!

    Ow! Why am I bleeding?

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      I always figured Zombie stories are basically the equivalent of humans creating something that can do to humans, what we do to our prey

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      I think it’s been explained, but to reiterate, while humans aren’t fast, we’re very good at walking/trotting for extended periods of time - both because we have sweat glands that many animals lack, but also because bipedal locomotion is more efficient over a long distance.

      Our earlier ancestors would set out after a herbivore, say an aurochs (the bigger the better), during the hottest part of the day, and cause it to flee. When it stopped to cool, they’d jog up after it and caused it to run away again, until it got so hot that it collapsed from heatstroke.

      We’re having steak, boys!

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      humans sweat but antelopes don’t. this is part of what makes humans (and also wolves and some other social canids, and hyenas that pant instead) hilariously good at long distance running and so can just run or jog following a herd until antelopes collapse from heat exhaustion. this is called persistence hunting. this is also why we have domesticated wolves, probably

      i’m pretty sure that there’s a tribe or a couple of them that practice that form of hunting even today

      that’s how the story goes, anyway, whether it was actually a thing or a side product or misinterpretation is something else entirely

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      Tribes, and wolves and dogs (they are distinct and out pals came from dogs not wolves, their split happened much earlier I’ve been informed,) would follow herds for months. Indefinitely.