{"id":8479,"date":"2016-05-09T01:53:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T01:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/05\/09\/roachpatrol-wallycaine-friendlytroll-dear\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T01:53:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T01:53:27","slug":"roachpatrol-wallycaine-friendlytroll-dear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/05\/09\/roachpatrol-wallycaine-friendlytroll-dear\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

roachpatrol<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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wallycaine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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friendlytroll<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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dear fiction writers:\u00a0<\/p>\n

as far as I know, there is no large carnivore who would abandon actively eating a killed meal to chase live prey. chasing and hunting live prey is a risk, as a healthy live creature has the capability to injure a carnivore, or tire it out through the chase. If there is, say, a giant pile of dead bodies to eat, which abandoning would allow other carnivores or scavengers to steal and eat instead, it makes no sense at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

please stop doing that thing<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The sole exception I can think of is if the large carnivore thought the live prey was another carnivore or scavenger, and was chasing them as a threat display to ensure they didn\u2019t steal the dead bodies. Even in that case, though, it would only be a short, mock charge followed by returning to the pile if the opponent fled. With possibly whatever the animal\u2019s equivalent of\u00a0\u201cand stay out\u201d would be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another thing: most carnivores don\u2019t like<\/i> to fight. They have to mug something to death for every single meal, they have to stay in top shape while conserving their energy. Meanwhile, herbivores have plenty of extra energy because they eat stuff that comes out of the ground and doesn\u2019t fight back, and they often live in big social groups, so they\u2019re better at handling stress and more used to having to actually come to blows with other animals to get their way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So like, a zebra will try kick your ass just to see what\u2019s up. A tiger won\u2019t do shit unless it\u2019s damn sure it can take you. I\u2019d rather come face to face with a cougar than a stag\u2014 have you seen videos of what happens to hunters when a stag catches a dude on the ground? the stag tears the dude apart. Not even to eat him. Just because the stag didn\u2019t like what was going on and decided it was time to curb stomp a motherfucker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re deciding what kind of Big Scary Animals to have be a threat, like, forget wolves and lions and eagles and velociraptors. Go drop in a moose.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

roachpatrol: wallycaine: friendlytroll: dear fiction writers:\u00a0 as far as I know, there is no large carnivore who would abandon actively eating a killed meal to chase live prey. chasing and hunting live prey is a risk, as a healthy live creature has the capability to injure a carnivore, or tire it out through the chase. … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3241],"class_list":["post-8479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-love-this","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}