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Megacerops (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I prefer the drunken fighty octopus hangers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

YSK an octopus has 8 arms. /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

They cut the octopus in quarters to increase output. Back in my day, our drunk octopus coathangers had eight arms!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They went extinct because of this.

Is it really worth it?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So many baby Megacerops needlessly slaughtered for humanity's towel-hanging lust.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And the public is silent about it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like it's eyes shouldn't be where they are. Uncomfortable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also, doesn't this put them too close to their defense? I assume that is what the horn would be for, and the eyes are put in harms way by using it

Edit: I guess if he puts his head down, pointing the horn straight out, it makes a buffer from the eyes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't know why, but to me it looks like their eyes should be further back, closer to their ears, or maybe their ears are too far back. I assume that's why they went extinct.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I'll pass that along to God...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That's where the wyes are located on surviving rhinos.They are technically a prey species, sohey didn't really need to see what was dead ahead of them, since they were foragers. No predator is coming at them from the front, so they really only need to see what is at their sides.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Boop

:(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wound you boop each tip separately, or boop once in the middle?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

(Excellent question)

Hm, I think I would actually go for the gentle fist headbutt-bonk thing (like affectionately with cats, or playful with goats).

It seems the proper way to acknowledge the big boye/gurl they seem to be.

Big puppers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think about this every time I use a swan neck rest in snooker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think of a spider. Because that's what they are called.