Originally published at: Why do humans have the biggest butts in the animal kingdom? | Boing Boing
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I don’t know about you, but I primarily use mine for sitting.
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Apart from us being fulltime bipeds, and it being the motor for propelling us?
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“I am Gluteus Maximus, are you not entertained?!”
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We do?
What about baboons?
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Biggest, not fanciest…
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I always thought kangaroos had the biggest trunk (+ frunk!) but maybe they’re mostly thigh chonk. Clearly this demands further study.
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Wonder if some extinct species would be bigger, or if excluding the mass of the tail makes a difference.
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Where’s Sir Mix A Lot when you need him?
I wouldn’t say we need him
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is this to say that my butt is proportionally larger than that of a draft horse?
“does this butt make my butt look big?”
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Fat-tailed sheep disagrees.
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Why you ask? Because we’re full of poo poo. Your hiney is a poop delivery machine, evolution people, evolution.
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Yep. It’s the fudge machine.
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