Flying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 9 months agoInstead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammothwww.discovermagazine.comexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1242arrow-down13
arrow-up1239arrow-down1external-linkInstead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammothwww.discovermagazine.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square65fedilink
minus-squarePhenomephrene@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·9 months agoI always pictured mammoths being more docile: disinclined to charge. Didn’t realize they could be more of a wooly bully.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·9 months agoElephants charge pretty easily, so that part doesn’t surprise me.
minus-squarePhenomephrene@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·9 months agoI did that thing where I lied on the internet. The preamble was there purely as a setup for the greatest joke of all time.
minus-squareRicoBerto@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·9 months agoYeah, if your main form of offense/defense is that you are: large, and have massive fuck-off tusks on your front then charging seems to be a pretty good go to.
I always pictured mammoths being more docile: disinclined to charge. Didn’t realize they could be more of a wooly bully.
Elephants charge pretty easily, so that part doesn’t surprise me.
I did that thing where I lied on the internet. The preamble was there purely as a setup for the greatest joke of all time.
Worth
Yeah, if your main form of offense/defense is that you are: large, and have massive fuck-off tusks on your front then charging seems to be a pretty good go to.
Wooly bully?
Watch it now, watch it!