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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Why has evolution let these cows down?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, we kind of hijacked evolution in favor of hypergrowth and ludicrous gazongas a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Hippity, hoppity. Your natural selection is now my property!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

In most places flies are more nuisances than actual threats to large mammals. But then, there are the tsé-tsé flies...

[Edit : Had previously written "horses" instead of "flies" by accident]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

tse-tse horses would be terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

True, but what I actually wrote was calling horses a nuisance.