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Isn't this a while thing? Where archeologists have drawn alternative interpretations of what dinosaurs could have looked like. I think there was a famous example, where red they got people to.draw a dinosaur from a hippo skeleton and the creature was really scary looking?
Hippos are also deceptively docile looking creatures
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If anything on this Earth should look like a Jurassic Park dinosaur it's hippos
Wouldn't that mean T-Rex actually looked cuddly and friend shaped?
"WE CAN'T PROVE THEY WEREN'T HUGE FATBIRDS"
Damn! I was hoping they were friend-shaped this whole time. The babies look kinda cute at least.
i think its them being deceptively fast on land they can outrun humans, consider they technically cant swim under water, they just are capable "running" in the water because thier bone density allows them to sink.
Well it's also that they're highly aggressive animals that will attack (and kill) pretty much anything that gets just a little too close for their comfort, despite looking cute and cuddly.
they are very fast on land for looking like a cumbersome blimp for weighing 3000-7000lbs.
To be fair, hippos are one of the most dangerous animals for humans
Gotta be about third after humans and mosquitoes.
Chihuahuas are scary af. They could easily be on second or third.
Scary, but not a serious threat.
You can kick a Chihuahua pretty far, a hippo suffers from no such vulnerability.
Depends on the amount.
I'd rather fight against 1 hippo than the equivalent body weight in chihuahuas.
A hippo would definitely be preferable. A fast and brutal death is preferable to getting your ankles bit out from under you by a thousand Chihuahua.
I don't think getting chewed to death is fast. I'd rather fight the chihuahuas 1000x
We are talking up to 2,000 Chihuahua that are determined to fight you at the cost of their lives. They will not get scared, they will not run, they understand it is you or them and there are 10,000lbs of them.
According to Wikipedia, the Chihuahua weighs up to 3kg whereas an adult male hippo weighs 1500kg. I'm going to consider these numbers for our speculative (hopefully) fight and assume I'll be fighting 500 chihuahuas or 1 hippo. I found that
and
This data seems important to determine the outcome of the fight, since either of them would likely outrun me and I'd be tempted to get to high ground in both cases. Additionally,
and
so a high enough stage would probably be enough to stay out of reach. But if I must fight each one on their own terms, the hippo would probably choose the river, and the chihuhua would choose Chihuhua City, which I assume contains, like any city, high grounds of all sorts, putting me to relative safety. This is why I choose to fight 500 chihuhuas
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog_breed)
https://thechihuahuashack.com/how-fast-can-a-chihuahua-run/
https://chihuahuaguide.com/how-high-can-chihuahuas-jump/
Philadelphia Zoo says male hippos can get up to 9,900lbs, so we are talking potentially under 2k Chihuahua.
2000 chihuahuas would turn on each other way before getting to your ankles. At least 85% of them would be fucking.
Now may or may not be a good time to remember that army ants exist.
Okay, but would you rather fight a pack of Chihuahuas or an equivalent number of mini-hippos?
Would the hippos be chihuaha-sized? Then, without question, the hippos. There's no way they can make sounds as annoying as an angry chihuaha, let alone a horde.
Can confirm. We had an infestation of house hippos last year and didn't even notice them until half way through winter and realizing all of our mittens were missing.
House hippos are even smaller than chiwawas
https://youtu.be/NBfi8OEz0rA
New TV show ideas: how far can you punt this animal.
I can tell you from personal experience that I can punt an aggressive juvenile possum about 30ft(I think it was diseased?). Low bar, but any relevant data is useful.
The thing about chihuahuas is they get other dogs to do their dirty work
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/happy-hollow-san-jose-horses-donkey-dog-maul-dead-12537735.php
All Yesterdays is exactly this. The first half reimagines dinos from how we traditionally view them (leaning into things like feathers and a t-rex sleeping) and the second half reinterprets contemporary fauna based on their skeletons to demonstrate how wrong we might be about dinos. It's a great coffee table book.
Obligatory All Tomorrows mention, one of the most existentially terrifying works of speculative scifi I've ever read, drawn by the same paleo artist.
Alt Shift X YouTube channel made an amazing video covering this book and since the book is mostly images, just watching this video is enough to understand the entire story.
Watching that before bed gave me a weird dream that fucked me up for a few days
Yes.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer/dinosaur-animals
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I approve of friend-shaped T-Rex.
such a fluffy boi
If friend shaped, why devouring me whole?
Sure..."friend." I think upon meeting one, you would find how friendly the worm finds the songbird.
I think even scientists from the 80's and 90's were able to tell where some connective tissue would have been. So while they got the skin wrong, the overall shape wouldn't be TOO far off. Also, Jurassic Park is what Hollywood thought dinosaurs looked like, not necessarily palentologists.
To me, this article feels more like "We have an extremely limited idea of the amount of knowledge scientists have. Here's what a bunch of animals would look like if they were drawn by an idiot like we believe palentologists to be." Like, some of those are clearly trying to deliberately get it wrong, like the house cat.
Then again, it is BuzzFeed. It's not like they base their "journalism" on anything except feels.
The original Jurassic Park had a lot of support from paleontologists, and then deviated a bit but not enough for changing how "dinosaur" look in general.
*Paleontologists
Archaeologist study humans in the past and sometimes our evolutionary ancestors through remains and material culture