• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Not to alarm anyone, but unless you’re doing the 100m in around 11s or less, current large crocodiles are still faster than you. But if you’re fit enough to keep the speed going, you should outlast them over short enough distance.

    And if you can’t do any of that, well you’ll have to run lateral to it and hope your agility out maneouvers them.

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      21 days ago

      Mythbusters tested whether it was better to zig zag or run straight away from a gator. Turns out, it doesn’t matter, gators won’t chase you.

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        21 days ago

        They’ve spent hundreds of millions of years sitting in lakes waiting for food to step in their mouths. They deserve to be called sloths more than actual sloths.

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          18 days ago

          the question is though, do they qualify for gluttony? on one hand they eat entire deer in one sitting, but on the other hand they do that like once a week.

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          21 days ago

          It doesn’t necessarily matter. They just don’t like running after prey.

          They can make swift dashes on land to catch prey sunbathing or something that’s escaping, but that’s the limits of what they’d like to do.

          It’s like Pandas. They’re cute as hell, but if it wasn’t for us, they’d have died out already. They’ve evolved themselves to a point where all they eat is one specific plant, and they have such a low sex drive that we can’t even show them Panda Porn to get them horny. We literally have to extract sperm from their balls and inject it into the uterus of the female to make baby pandas.

          Evolution is lazy is what I’m trying to say.

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            21 days ago

            Dude you’re completely totally wrong about Pandas.

            Pandas only have fertility issues in captivity. Everything you described just now ONLY applies to pandas living in captivity

            They do just fine in the wild. At least, they

            The reason for their falling population numbers is their loss of habitat.

            And if I remember correctly they have one cub every two years, overall low rate of reproduction but that has more reproductive strategy than anything else.

            Suffice to say: pandas reproduce much more successfully in the wild than previously thought

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          21 days ago

          Some Floridaman has. Apparently their jaws are really good for chomping down, but not that great for opening back up. So, you belly flop on the thing from behind, and it can’t really do a thing to you while you take some shoelaces and tie the gator’s jaws shut. At that point you can transfer the gator to a different swamp that isn’t inhabited by Floridaman. At least that’s the best description I have, of the technique I watched the guy use.

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      22 days ago

      Or that you have the adequate weapons on you, the knowledge and physical ability to use them properly.