There are still lots of people who think animals are only as strong as they themselves would be if they were the same size/shape.
Also it would seem Nissan has abandoned the whole âHardbodyâ concept, no?
That gator is pretty pissed about the vertical video.
Gators are touchy about proper use of available aspect ratio. I thought everyone knew thisâŚ
In fact, compared to say, giraffes, they are especially sensitive to this crime against videography on account of their personal aspect ratio. And donât get me started on now snakes reactâŚ
Thatâs probably what happened here in fact.
(Hissssss) dude, youâre cutting of my tail and back wtf?
Imma jes a hillabilla wit a smarterNme phoner!
(Hisssss) NO ONE CAN SEE MY BEAUTIFUL TAIL!!1111 (tears truck apart)
I am so glad that wasnât my leg. But I suppose my leg is smarter than his truck.
Snakes on a (horizontal) plane!
Intentionally antagonizing alligators doesnât always end this well. Iâd say he got what was coming to him.
Looks like they starting building Nissans Ford Tough.
Alligators arenât descendants of dinosaurs. They forked off from a common ancestor to dinosaurs, Archosaurs, in the Triassic.
Hey, I was gonna say that!
Crocodilians arenât descended from dinosaurs (as Hannahcomb has already mentioned) but there are dinosaur descendants that you seriously donât want to annoy. The phorusracids, or âterror birdsâ, of the Cenozoic (think 3-metre high huge-billed flightless carnivorous speed-running monsters) no longer exist, which is probably just as well, but they could probably give your gator (or truck) a run for its money. Cassowaries, which do exist in Australia and New Guinea, are also supposed to be bad-tempered and vicious if pissed off. They arenât carnivorous, though.
I was wondering what Florida Man was up to this week.
Drunkard Jim Boudreaux taunts the alligator he called âa total pussyâ in front of friends.
The line that got me:
"Don't let an alligator's easygoing appearance fool you," Sawyer said. "These creatures have no empathy for drunken pranksters looking for fun. They are not black bears."
Iâve met a blackbear. Theyâre not as big as they make them look on TV. I wouldnât antagonize one though. While they arenât 7-foot tall behemoths they are about 4-8 times stronger than a human, and can tear a log apart like itâs a snickers wrapper.
Gotta love LouisianaâŚ
(Iâm a displaced coonass)
Terror birds such as Gastornis are recently thought to have used their huge beaks to crack nuts. There doesnât seem to be any conclusive evidence that they were carnivorous unless you know of an article Iâve not read. Still, knowing ostriches, terror birds probably earned their nickname in other ways.
Also, Wikipedia seemed to think that cassowaries ate human flesh for awhile, but thankfully that part of the article seems to have been refined as âattacks humansâ. Theyâre omnivorous and sometimes eat meat. :V
Biology!
Iâm flagging this post for being offensive to strongly personally-held myths.
Cassowaries (genus Casuarius) are frugivorous; fallen fruit and fruit on low branches is the mainstay of their diet. They also eat fungi, insects, frogs, spiders, snakes and other small animals, even dead ones and roadkills. [emphasis added] (source)
I suspect your dietary immunity to cassowary appetite is only an ecological draw-down away from lunch-time.