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[–] hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I stole this from somewhere:

We are the only superpredator known to exist. Our best friends are apex predators we allow to live in our homes and treat like children, and we are sufficiently skilled at predation that we have allowed them to give up hunting for survival.

We accidentally killed enough of the biomass on the planet that we are now in the Anthropocene era, an era of earths history that marks post-humanity in geological terms. We are an extinction event significant enough that we will be measurable in millions of years even if we all died tomorrow.

We are the only creature known that engages in group play fighting. Other animals play fight, but not in teams. This allowed us to develop tactics, strategy, and so on, and was instrumental in hunting and eventually war.

We are sufficiently deadly that in order for something to pose a credible threat to us, we have to make it up and give it powers that don't exist in reality. And even then, most of the time, we still win.

[–] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

We are sufficiently deadly that in order for something to pose a credible threat to us, we have to make it up and give it powers that don't exist in reality. And even then, most of the time, we still win.

This is false. We already pose a very real, credible threat to us.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Orcas train in packs, and have been observed passing learned behavioral traits onto others.

I can only hope they one day rise out of the sea to destroy us all.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i am confident that if orcas took to land they would recognize that a few psychopaths are responsible and that most people just want to watch orcas jump out of the water and have fun

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

I am not sure that cageing them and forcing them to do "tricks" for our amusement is going favourably with them on the "humans = psychopaths" scale

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

FucksWithDucks is this you?