• hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    I stole this from somewhere:

    We are the only superpredator known to exist. Our best friends are apex predators we allow to live in our homes and treat like children, and we are sufficiently skilled at predation that we have allowed them to give up hunting for survival.

    We accidentally killed enough of the biomass on the planet that we are now in the Anthropocene era, an era of earths history that marks post-humanity in geological terms. We are an extinction event significant enough that we will be measurable in millions of years even if we all died tomorrow.

    We are the only creature known that engages in group play fighting. Other animals play fight, but not in teams. This allowed us to develop tactics, strategy, and so on, and was instrumental in hunting and eventually war.

    We are sufficiently deadly that in order for something to pose a credible threat to us, we have to make it up and give it powers that don’t exist in reality. And even then, most of the time, we still win.

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      1 year ago

      Orcas train in packs, and have been observed passing learned behavioral traits onto others.

      I can only hope they one day rise out of the sea to destroy us all.

    • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      We are sufficiently deadly that in order for something to pose a credible threat to us, we have to make it up and give it powers that don’t exist in reality. And even then, most of the time, we still win.

      This is false. We already pose a very real, credible threat to us.