• ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
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    18 hours ago

    Everyone that disagrees should have a little face to face time with an enraged Cassowary and then visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.

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      I turned our geese into attack dogs when was 3 because they liked me but no one else. This resulted in at least one instance of my uncle (moms younger brother) being chased around by five pissed off geese. I have respected feathered creatures ever since.

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      17 hours ago

      visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.

      But velociraptors were actually about the size of medium-large dogs. When Jurrasic Park was making the models, the consultants stated the length from head to tail, and the modellers thought they were referring to height

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        Utahraptor is the size of the ones in the movie and was discovered the same year the movie came out. I like to think that’s what they are, but Crichton and/or Spielberg just thought “velociraptor” was a cooler name.

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        14 hours ago

        Never happened with geese to me, but our local swans in attack mode got me running backwards more than once.

        Hissing spread-winged furies out to kill you, or at least knock and bite the living soul out of you…