I refuuuse to believe that! I refuuuse!
Look at their little bellies! So round and fluffy!
I refuuuse to believe that! I refuuuse!
Look at their little bellies! So round and fluffy!
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
What if Crni was Vergil all along?
Wombats are my favorite animal ever!
MutantScalper
Dogmeat
Wombats are kewl. They can bite though.
In the north of Australia there is a bunch of crocodiles. Those are just scary. I've seen a crocodile once, it was in a kind of tank. They have that air about them, you know not to mess with it. Same with big snakes and poisonous snakes. They're totally still but they see you and they're just conserving energy and will pounce if you mess with them. Salt water crocs will hunt and eat humans if they get them.
In the north of Australia there is a bunch of crocodiles. Those are just scary. I've seen a crocodile once, it was in a kind of tank. They have that air about them, you know not to mess with it. Same with big snakes and poisonous snakes. They're totally still but they see you and they're just conserving energy and will pounce if you mess with them. Salt water crocs will hunt and eat humans if they get them.
I finally made my avatar work!
*forms a chain to defend wombats against Dr. Fallout*
Dr Fallout
Centurion
Have you seen the little fuckers? Giant oversized rats, always gnawing with their buckteeth. Fuck them all!
*writes a protest-song about wombats, to the melody of We are the world*
nanana, we are the wombaaats
nanana, we are the wombaaats
Dr Fallout
Centurion
I've seen someone get bitten by wombats. Not pretty.
I just imagined a protest song against wombats now
But sure, I believe you
In fact, I always live by this general rule that most animals one third of my own weight have the ferocity to potentially kill me.
And almost anything can tear my fragile human-skin to shreds
Animals are little beasts. I love them, in general, but I have a very sound respect for them.
When I had only had a cat for a few months, I lived with my brother, and he is the type who will trust societies unwritten rules before actual science, so I insisted cats don't need to be bathed, he insisted we HAD to bathe her, cus it was "socially proper", so, FINE.
I had no idea an animal so small could resist so brutally
I had never, untill that day, seen the skin on my hand hooked onto claws, and pulled a full centimetre from the bone, looked like a tent!
(never bathed her again)
Dr Fallout
Centurion
Look at the teeth!
They're massive!
Imagine that going into your skin...
They're massive!
Imagine that going into your skin...
Look at the teeth!
They're massive!
Imagine that going into your skin...
That's cool to see, it tickles the zoologist in me, because they are *not* rodents, but one more of the "convergent evolutions" found in Australia's endemic marsupial fauna, such as the thylacine evolving canine-like traits, or the extinct sparassodonts of South America, closely "mimicking" sabre-tooth cats
"mimicking" would be kind of unfair as well, it's not like they're commiting plagiarism or anything, they just went the same evolutionary road, but having different ancestors to go from
Dr Fallout
Centurion
Hah, as the 'zoologist' in you. As the eye-witness in me I've seen what those suckers do. I admit, the guy had it coming, thinking he could pat a wombat but still... if those teeth can burrow through concrete they can burrow through Human flesh.
Yes, I believe that too. Bite force sometimes seems a bit abstract, but there's some serious physics at work there. Parrots can bite human fingers clean off, but they really don't look like they could. I had a budgie when I was little, and those lil bastards would not only bite, when in a sour mood (and yes, parrots, including budgies, actually get "moody", they can get into really shitty moods for no apparent reason) it would bite onto a finger, hold on, and tug and pull. Not much you can do, unless you're a total psycho and bash its head in, but otherwise all you can do is stand there, patiently, while it pokes a hole in your finger, and wait untill it lets go.
Impressive bite-force, and thats a tiny little budgie-beak
MutantScalper
Dogmeat
Those wombats remind me of the mole-rats of Fallout 1. Or were they 2 as well? Been awhile. King rat.
Anyway, Australia really has some freaky animals. Some say that these things are very common in Aussieland. Frilled-neck lizards. Be kinda annoying if one those just kept following you.
zegh,
many animals below, say, 20 kg can mess a person up, bad. A harpy eagle could even kill a person by sinking the talons in the back of the neck and ripping the veins open. Even a smallish monkey can deliver nasty bites and they are surprisingly strong. Check out this one fighting a guy.
Anyway, Australia really has some freaky animals. Some say that these things are very common in Aussieland. Frilled-neck lizards. Be kinda annoying if one those just kept following you.
zegh,
many animals below, say, 20 kg can mess a person up, bad. A harpy eagle could even kill a person by sinking the talons in the back of the neck and ripping the veins open. Even a smallish monkey can deliver nasty bites and they are surprisingly strong. Check out this one fighting a guy.
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
So you have the dinosaur that killed Newman in miniature form just walking around?
MutantScalper
Dogmeat
Yea, that's what I thought. One Aussie guy on another board said that when he goes to get the mail from the mailbox there's a sucker like that chasing him.
Harpy eagles use their toes to crush open monkey skulls, so yes, enormous strength there
I saw in a docu, a handler keeping a harpy eagle on his arm. He needed, obviously, a very strong protective glove. While filming, he mentioned that the eagle was crushing through the glove, due to sudden noises from construction work nearby, that was making the bird nervous.
Turns out, the claws had sunk right through the glove, through his muscles, and scraped his bones. What a day!
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
Such magnificent animals.Harpy eagles use their toes to crush open monkey skulls, so yes, enormous strength there
I saw in a docu, a handler keeping a harpy eagle on his arm. He needed, obviously, a very strong protective glove. While filming, he mentioned that the eagle was crushing through the glove, due to sudden noises from construction work nearby, that was making the bird nervous.
Turns out, the claws had sunk right through the glove, through his muscles, and scraped his bones. What a day!
Of course wild animals will bite if humans try to pet them. Even pandas will attack humans that are stupid like that.
Wombats are usually quite peaceful and prefer to run instead of attacking.
Wombats that are used to humans (those in captivity) are usually friendly and playful (specially when they are young).
They could be good pets except they dig, bite and smash anything they think it's in their way (fences, doors, the ground, etc).
They run faster than the fastest man can, they are mostly muscled and quite strong (it is a known fact that if you find a wounded wombat and put it in your car, then you need to cover/wrap it's head/eyes with something like a blanket or jacket, because otherwise the wombat will hide under the car seats and will be impossible to remove without damaging the car), they have armored butts which they use to kill predators (by running into their burrows and when the predator puts it's head inside the burrow the wombat use it's butt to smash the predator skull against the ceiling of the burrow), they shit cubes (which the settler convicts used as dice), they possess high intelligence for a mammal, when they get run over by cars they tend to make the car fly (because low center of gravity and high muscles, making them behave like a ramp when hit by cars), one wombat (the famous Patrick the wombat) once drove a park van into the neighbors fence and even had a Tinder profile.
What's not to like about wombats? They are awesome!
Wombats are usually quite peaceful and prefer to run instead of attacking.
Wombats that are used to humans (those in captivity) are usually friendly and playful (specially when they are young).
They could be good pets except they dig, bite and smash anything they think it's in their way (fences, doors, the ground, etc).
They run faster than the fastest man can, they are mostly muscled and quite strong (it is a known fact that if you find a wounded wombat and put it in your car, then you need to cover/wrap it's head/eyes with something like a blanket or jacket, because otherwise the wombat will hide under the car seats and will be impossible to remove without damaging the car), they have armored butts which they use to kill predators (by running into their burrows and when the predator puts it's head inside the burrow the wombat use it's butt to smash the predator skull against the ceiling of the burrow), they shit cubes (which the settler convicts used as dice), they possess high intelligence for a mammal, when they get run over by cars they tend to make the car fly (because low center of gravity and high muscles, making them behave like a ramp when hit by cars), one wombat (the famous Patrick the wombat) once drove a park van into the neighbors fence and even had a Tinder profile.
What's not to like about wombats? They are awesome!