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[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I laughed so hard at how grossly wrong the general idea is being presented in this meme. It's like the repetition of "alpha wolf" myth.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The fact that we have a gif of a herd animal plowing through a younger one and leaving it the the wolves may not be representative of the species as a whole, but good enough for a comic IMO

Edit: wrong gif and I can't get the right one to upload. If you search buffalo snow wolves gif it should come up

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

That’s a “fuck you in particular” if I ever saw it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sigma bull theory confirmed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Probably knew it wasn't his kid. People in these comments seem to be about "mammals protect their young, dammit", but if it's someone else's young, and that someone else isn't around (even if that someone else is the same species) ...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. My favorite part of nature shows as a kid was watching predators for after the young animals and get absolutely wailed on by the older ones. Never saw a documentary where they just left them behind unless it was completely hopeless, and often still not.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Buffalos rarely leave their young unless it's hopeless. Most often the adults fight the predators.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

The juxtaposition of these posts just below the gif of the bison KOing the other, smaller one, and leaving it to the wolves just above is, I think, even funnier than the comic.

Now I suddenly want to resurrect the Baghdad Bob meme template, but...effort.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why do people like you even bother reading jokes?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I know it's a joke but with the caption "nature in a nutshell" makes it as though this is perfectly legit and plants the wrong idea to people that all animal species do this. Some species would instinctively leave their young but not buffaloes. Buffaloes rarely leave their young to predators unless they know it's totally hopeless to save them. This meme could have picked a more accurate species that does this escape tactic.

It seems like this joke is a recent perpetuation. I've seen in Reddit talk about it as well.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait until you hear about all the chickens crossing roads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Well you see, son... When a mama chicken and a daddy road love each other very much...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah I saw one crossing the road in a city I used to live in. I didn't ask why it was (cause it's rude to impose) but I could clearly see that it was just trying to get to the other side.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So they have something feel superior about, probably.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Basically. Who the hell goes "well achully..." when they hear a joke? It's annoying.