I can’t think of any animal that is more surrounded by myths and misconceptions that almost nobody realises aren’t true than these. Even people who know about animals seem to think they’re super aggressive, have a deadly toxic bite and will stalk prey for days waiting for it to die when none of that is true
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Better than the T-Rex. They are like nature’s xenomorph. They are perfectly adapted to becoming the apex predator on any island they colonize.
Females spawn male clones if they reach an island alone. The young feed upon rodents and insects with and the large adults feed upon their young to capture the prey that would otherwise be too small. They have venom and hunt in packs to eat prey too large to swallow and there teeth are perfectly designed to shred ligaments using the prey’s own struggling and pulling away to deliver the laceration. The laceration they fill with venom that will kill the prey without physical risk to the Komodo. They just wait for it to die. It’s not going too far it only has three working legs after the bite.
STUDIES HAVE SHOWN that only rats and mice have any impact on the extinction rate. Dogs, foxes, and cats have no significant impact - all extinctions attributed to them are better attributed to humans as their presence without any human fuckery does literally fucking nothing. You need anthropogenic habitat destruction in most cases, or humans purposefully make them a problem ala indian vulture crisis and the problem was never really dogs or cats anyways. In the case of dogs and foxes, they actually adapt to the ecosystem pretty well and can reduce the extinction rate in the long term.
The reason wildlife is going extinct in places like australia is because the emu cucks have destroyed over 50% of the land for the sake of farming fucking sheep. Cats have nothing to do with it and might even help a little. The mice and rats are far worse if not the only bad thing.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Dogs, foxes, and cats have no significant impact - all extinctions attributed to them are better attributed to humans as their presence without any human fuckery does literally fucking nothing
This is utter horse shit. You are talking about a study focused on small islands only, and in those cases just because rats were the leading cause of extinctions doesn’t mean foxes, cats and dogs didn’t have a negative impact as well in the absence of rats >The reason wildlife is going extinct in places like australia is because the emu cucks have destroyed over 50% of the land for the sake of farming fucking sheep
This is also utter horse shit. Sheep can’t even be farmed in 50% of Australia
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>This is also utter horse shit. Sheep can’t even be farmed in 50% of Australia
I'm not saying go vegan, because humans are natural meat eaters and animal products are important for recycling agricultural waste, but the bogans really took it too far. No one needs to eat THAT much sheep and beef. >muh islands
https://www.science.org/content/article/australian-cats-and-foxes-may-not-deserve-their-bad-rep
Do you know why they studied islands? because they weren't home to significant human activity. Cats are not capable of driving SHIT to extinction unless humans first disrupt and destroy their habitiats. What's happening is rodents and humans are doing the real damage and cats get the honor of eating the scraps. Rats, mice, and primates on the other hand are necessarily destructive.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Herds of livestock that serve no purpose except making it cheap to eat yourself into atherosclerosis are roving across the outback and basically you're fucking ignorant
If only people could try eating less than two burgers a day and accept that the magic manly meat actually makes their penis smaller.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Cats are not capable of driving SHIT to extinction unless humans first disrupt and destroy their habitiats
Except they can and have. One study in one country on a handful of islands do not discount the other species impacted by those invasives >Do you know why they studied islands? because they weren't home to significant human activity
That is not why they studied islands. They used islands because they have particularly high extinction rates and because it’s a lot easier to survey than the mainland
https://i.imgur.com/81D1T2i.jpg
Herds of livestock that serve no purpose except making it cheap to eat yourself into atherosclerosis are roving across the outback and basically you're fucking ignorant
If only people could try eating less than two burgers a day and accept that the magic manly meat actually makes their penis smaller.
>basically you're fucking ignorant
Basically you’re fucking retarded. Even in the image you posted it clearly shows sheep are farmed in nowhere near 50% of the country, stop over exaggerating for effect
You live to produce fly food and when you're dead flies will eat what remains of you. Large mammals are just livestock for insects.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Not if you eat ze bugs
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Most people are pumped full enough embalming chemicals that the flies never get their share. They don't rot until years after they're sequestered in a vault, or they are cremated directly.
Further, even our feces generally aren't available for flies, because of the way modern wastewater treatment plants work.
aawww shit your thread just got paleoschizo'd
I can’t think of any animal that is more surrounded by myths and misconceptions that almost nobody realises aren’t true than these. Even people who know about animals seem to think they’re super aggressive, have a deadly toxic bite and will stalk prey for days waiting for it to die when none of that is true
they have a good shape
When are they gonna reintroduce these to Australia
Please no the crocodiles are enough
They are cute, you are just soulless
If it weren’t for the fact they’re so rare and hard to breed people would keep them as pets all over the world
Staring at me with them bedroom eyed
Would
id snuggle a water monitor
You’re gross
Someone turn these into webms
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>https://www.instagram.com/p/CRJM8ALlNR4/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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>https://www.instagram.com/p/CWAvlwlBcJv/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
No they’re cute
They're pretty cool, wish there were larger reptiles still around though.
no they arent
Ew
cute!
sleep tight scaley pupper
stop being antisemitic
tiny 4 legged t rex
I think they're more similar to the raptors in JP, design wise anyway (with the exception of cat pupils)
She looks like a man
Better than the T-Rex. They are like nature’s xenomorph. They are perfectly adapted to becoming the apex predator on any island they colonize.
Females spawn male clones if they reach an island alone. The young feed upon rodents and insects with and the large adults feed upon their young to capture the prey that would otherwise be too small. They have venom and hunt in packs to eat prey too large to swallow and there teeth are perfectly designed to shred ligaments using the prey’s own struggling and pulling away to deliver the laceration. The laceration they fill with venom that will kill the prey without physical risk to the Komodo. They just wait for it to die. It’s not going too far it only has three working legs after the bite.
Gotta wonder why they went extinct in 90% of their original range of the last few hundred thousand years
Humans. Simple as.
and rats (eats eggs), cats (eats juveniles), dogs (eat juveniles)
>so called """apex predator""" gets btfo by mittens
many such cases!
Cats didn’t exist in that part of the world when dragons went extinct in most of Australasia
Reptiles have all been perpetually mogged since mammals started to spread and diversify in strength
Those animals aren't the main factors in komodo dragon reduction, climate change and humans are.
Yes, guess what historical event brought cats rats and dogs to Indonesia
STUDIES HAVE SHOWN that only rats and mice have any impact on the extinction rate. Dogs, foxes, and cats have no significant impact - all extinctions attributed to them are better attributed to humans as their presence without any human fuckery does literally fucking nothing. You need anthropogenic habitat destruction in most cases, or humans purposefully make them a problem ala indian vulture crisis and the problem was never really dogs or cats anyways. In the case of dogs and foxes, they actually adapt to the ecosystem pretty well and can reduce the extinction rate in the long term.
The reason wildlife is going extinct in places like australia is because the emu cucks have destroyed over 50% of the land for the sake of farming fucking sheep. Cats have nothing to do with it and might even help a little. The mice and rats are far worse if not the only bad thing.
>Dogs, foxes, and cats have no significant impact - all extinctions attributed to them are better attributed to humans as their presence without any human fuckery does literally fucking nothing
This is utter horse shit. You are talking about a study focused on small islands only, and in those cases just because rats were the leading cause of extinctions doesn’t mean foxes, cats and dogs didn’t have a negative impact as well in the absence of rats
>The reason wildlife is going extinct in places like australia is because the emu cucks have destroyed over 50% of the land for the sake of farming fucking sheep
This is also utter horse shit. Sheep can’t even be farmed in 50% of Australia
>This is also utter horse shit. Sheep can’t even be farmed in 50% of Australia
I'm not saying go vegan, because humans are natural meat eaters and animal products are important for recycling agricultural waste, but the bogans really took it too far. No one needs to eat THAT much sheep and beef.
>muh islands
https://www.science.org/content/article/australian-cats-and-foxes-may-not-deserve-their-bad-rep
Do you know why they studied islands? because they weren't home to significant human activity. Cats are not capable of driving SHIT to extinction unless humans first disrupt and destroy their habitiats. What's happening is rodents and humans are doing the real damage and cats get the honor of eating the scraps. Rats, mice, and primates on the other hand are necessarily destructive.
Herds of livestock that serve no purpose except making it cheap to eat yourself into atherosclerosis are roving across the outback and basically you're fucking ignorant
If only people could try eating less than two burgers a day and accept that the magic manly meat actually makes their penis smaller.
>Cats are not capable of driving SHIT to extinction unless humans first disrupt and destroy their habitiats
Except they can and have. One study in one country on a handful of islands do not discount the other species impacted by those invasives
>Do you know why they studied islands? because they weren't home to significant human activity
That is not why they studied islands. They used islands because they have particularly high extinction rates and because it’s a lot easier to survey than the mainland
>basically you're fucking ignorant
Basically you’re fucking retarded. Even in the image you posted it clearly shows sheep are farmed in nowhere near 50% of the country, stop over exaggerating for effect
they are not the apex then, they must bow to us HUMANS, the true rulers of the world
You live to produce fly food and when you're dead flies will eat what remains of you. Large mammals are just livestock for insects.
Not if you eat ze bugs
Most people are pumped full enough embalming chemicals that the flies never get their share. They don't rot until years after they're sequestered in a vault, or they are cremated directly.
Further, even our feces generally aren't available for flies, because of the way modern wastewater treatment plants work.
It's no coincidence that the few places they hung on were difficult to reach due to sharp reefs and rough currents and relatively inhospitable.
All of those exist in the current range of the dragon and if anything have a positive impact on them, since they act as additional prey.
Looks a lot more like a synapsid to me. Put a sail on its back and this thing would pass as a dimetrodon.