• Jax@sh.itjust.works
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    Chickens actively hunt and eat mice, as well. I’ve actually seen one of my chickens find, slam around until dead (I fucking hope it was dead anyway), and swallow whole a mouse.

    Brutal little creatures. They would 100% kill and eat you if they were big enough/ you were small enough.

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      Humans are a very fortunate size, aren’t we? A little bigger, and we’d be extinct like most megafauna. A little smaller, and our place on the food chain would be very different.

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      Dinosaurs, ey?

      (Quick edit: As I am not close enough to biology this statement may be incorrect as chickens may not technically belong to the category [whichever level and correct name it may be/have] of dinosaur. In this case I am sorry for perpetrating this misinformation)

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        Avian dinosaurs certainly existed, it isn’t inaccurate to just call them dinosaurs.