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mmmm proper mammilian (mander.xyz)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A must read, I implore my audience to give it a min: https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/ :)

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Mmmm, no, very mammalian

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

This guy can't lizardpost.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

Witcher et al, you say?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I got one person to read it, I am happy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

also read it and really enjoyed it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

It's one of my faves. 🤗

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Make that two!

Good read, but is it really still that common to use "Indian" that way?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It very much depends.

Like Inuits and Eskimos, some prefer one term and are offended by the other, and with others it's the other way around..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Interesting. In Canada you only hear it from things named a while ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You got another one to read it :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

yisss

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Very interesting article, worth posting by itself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I already have. It didn't get much reaction.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

I imagine giant sloths as Ent-like, moving through the trees slowly, smelling this, eating that, not really worrying until there’s a weird little monkey with a stick with a rock on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You smell wonderful.

Giant sloth, we're in the pleistocene.

You smell wonderful in this pleistocene.

(Caption mentions Witcher et al and this is the best I can come up with.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I mean the obvious answer is to smell and then eat them. That’s what I do.