Are these fat fucks the smartest non primate land animals?
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons
Though Orcas kick their ass pretty hard in most areas, and those are really only mammals that happen to swim a lot.
>>2128441
>dolphins have more brain neurons than humans
Fascinating.
>>2128445
They can do some pretty cool shit that we can't. Too bad it's so hard to cook things underwater, at this rate they'll never get the energy necessary to form our intellect.
Many times I wonder what it would've been like if elephants evolved into the world's dominant species.
>>2128767
But they did? Name one thing that can take out an elephant.
Humans are very smart but from an evolutionary standpoint we're still inferior in many aspects.
>>2128793
>Implying all evolutionary advantages are physical.
A spear is a very valuable hunting tool that prehistoric man invented. So is the intelligence to wear furs and create fires and irrigation and agriculture.
Humans are the apex predator for lots of reasons besides gun, amiga.
Your only legitimate argument might be that people are not the best predators of the sea, but even then we've been hunting whales with harpoons and sailboats for a good long while.
God, it's great to be human.
>>2128793
im pretty sure 15 humans with only shit they can find in africa is more than enough to kill an elephant
>>2128793
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_IZ_9dlb0Y
like freaking ants against a cokoroach man
dont watch if your fee fees are sernsitive
>>2128807
I think you're missing out on the big picture here. That man's intellect and tool making abilities are why we are the dominant species and apex predator. This isn't a modern phenomena and goes back to prehistoric times. We are the best because we adapt to the best to the most climates by building tools.
>>2128807
all sorth of animals use tools, chimps use sticks to eat termites and thats more complex than sharp sticks
These guys are smart enough to not go extinct.
>>2128827
These guys are the dumbest creatures on earth and eat their brethren while still in their mother's womb. They've been around several hundreds of millions of years longer.
These guys are the smartest non chordate animal. Too bad they only live a few years.
>OC FTW!
>>2128828
Not as dumb (or old) as these guys!
>my pics: let me show you them
>>2128840
LOL nope, diving with subseaexperience.com east coast of Vancouver Island last fall. Good times. They're on another trip right now, but I am too poor this time.
>>2128844
Good.
I was worried for a moment you were like those annoying asians that take a picture of EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TANK in aquariums.
I'm IN the tank!
>in the bridge of HMCS Saskatchewan, with best vis ever
Elephant calves are the cutest, t b h familia.
>It's an elephant mother stays with her dying baby as the herd moves on episode.
>>2128793
They didn't. No. We can't punch an elephant to death but the entire point of modern humans is that we were smart enough to make tools, adapt and kill the shit out of everything because we lacked a bunch of shit.
>>2128853
This reminds me of SOMA, my favorite game
>>2128860
Kawaii.
>>2128447
Explain this cooking-energy meme please.
>>2128885
The mother always waits her child, and except in extreme situations ( eg drought ) the herd waits the mother .
>>2128972
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_Fire:_How_Cooking_Made_Us_Human
>>2128793
>inferior
Yeah hold on let me grab a gun that we've evolved to be able to create, and we'll see what animals are superior to us
>>2129121
You are a shining beacon of autism.
Are there any other animals that make art?
>>2128885
>Elephant herds leaves a mother elephant alone
Anon elephants mourn in groups, when a baby dies they just dont leave the mother
>>2128972
The idea is that cooking allowed us to get more nutrition out of food and thus allow our brains to evolve more
or something like that
>>2128972
Digestion requires energy. Digesting tough shit requires a lot of energy. Cooking basically lets you pre-digest a meal in a stomach of fire before consuming it, most birds feed their young by this principle which might explain why they're unusually clever.
>>2128793
>this whole post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQjjJmOVv2U
dumb hippy is dumb
>It's an 1 human can beat a gorillion elephants because of modern weaponry episode
>>2128793
Oh god this fucking meme.
but muh humans without weapons vs animal will lose.
A human's best weapon is it's brain, from a evolutionary standpoint we are the dominant species because of our huge freaky brains which we use to make weapons to kill animals bigger than us and each other.
A spear can kill an elephants, theres a webm posted her constantly of africans doing such a thing. A fucking spear the most simple weapon ever, something sharp tied to a long stick.
Other great apes can't do it but we can.
>>2130005
But we can, give me a tank and a herd of elephants.
I'm voting for the eurosian magpie.
>>2129193
Plenty of birds.
>>2130100
Can you craft a tank out of shit you would find in a savannah,tho?
>>2130384
I don't need a tank to kill an elephant. Just a couple people with spears.
>Inb4 having others help is cheating
Man is a social creature, he always enlisted help when tackling large game.
>>2130384
Yes.
That men can beat elephants without guns should be a settled point. Remember that time early humans drove mammoths to extinction?
>>2130384
Africa has plenty of metallic mineral resources. You can absolutely craft a tank out of purely local ore!
>for values of 'craft'
>>2130387
If we are talking about a 1v1 it would be cheating, the same way bringing a pride of lions to a fight against one Kodiak bear is cheating. And lions are social creatures as well (to a lesser extent).
>>2128447
so what if we just held some captive and made them pre cooked meals
>>2130570
Evolution doesn't happen overnight.
>>2130574
neither did my dick
Why are they so cute?
>>2130580
Giant prehensile snoot.
>>2130096
>Wow elephants so weak
Tell that to the Romans.
>>2128971
>thing came later than other thing so it must be inferior
What are you even on about m8.
>>2129192
He's right though. You're the only autism here.
>>2130606
If you want them to laugh at you. Roman generals practically made a competition out of finding ways to make bringing elephants to a fight go horribly wrong for the other guys. Fire worked well. So did dogs, rats, pigs, loud noises, and also just stepping aside so the huge beasts runs past the entire formation and into a ditch, where they break their legs. Elephants were the nazi supertanks of antiquity.
I love how elephants are such wise and gentle creatures, yet will absolutely fuck your shit up viciously if you fuck with them. I want to be like an elephant.
