• @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      Elefants have them too!

      I’m sure there is an exception for creatures made from fabric and foam, somewhere.

      • @odium
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        252 months ago

        Makes sense. Evolution gives prey animals eyes with as wide a field of vision as possible, so they can detect predators better. Elephants are too large for predators to mess with and so is big bird.

      • FuglyDuck
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        142 months ago

        I had to go look it up. Not sure that picture is accurate, mind, it’s the only one I could find. (Though lots of comments about herds being led by a blind elephant…. I’m sure there’s a joke in there.)

    • @[email protected]
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      132 months ago

      Maybe it evolved from a predatory ancestor and didn’t get selected for different position of the eyes?

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        We know from Big Bird’s extended family that his species has a wide spread of individual variation, and given that none of them reside in the wild none of them are likely to suffer predation due to what would otherwise be a mal-adaptation, providing a springboard for even more genetic variation from generation to generation.

        Just look at how wildly different looking specific humans can be from one another, even within a single community.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      And dragons have wide-set eyes in pretty much every depiction. So that brings up the question: What was hunting all the dragons?

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    122 months ago

    I’d hope they don’t allow predators on set, but we saw what happened at Nickelodeon with Dan Schneider.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      That’s what he wants you to think…

      Oscar is a form of Trapdoor Spider. He blends in with his environment until unsuspecting prey is near, then hauls them into his den to consume at his leisure.