• coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    bears, including grizzlies, were medium-sized predators in pleistocene north america. there were at least four more formidable predators until like 10K years ago; the reason they seem silly for apex predators is that we killed the real ones

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      2 hours ago

      I like giant ground sloths. They just wanna eat leaves all day, but will absolutely kill you just as fast as a bear. Those scientists gotta get the cloning vats running.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      5 hours ago

      The biggest one of these was the short-faced bear, and i wouldn't be surprised if they looked even sillier.

      • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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        3 hours ago

        yeah if polar bears are still cute shortfaces could probably have managed

        I do wonder whether smilodon was cute in some small and unexpected way. probably.