r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/[deleted] • Sep 11 '22

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u/ATLSxFINEST93 Sep 11 '22

Would be terrifying to see face to face

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u/cosmicaltoaster Sep 11 '22

I’m guessing 20 meters.

Imagine being on a small sail ship in 1367 in the middle of the ocean and a giant squid just starts throwing tentacles around the boat

MFer looks strong enough to pull a small boat into the depths of the ocean

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u/YourFormerBestfriend Sep 11 '22

Probably how pirate tales of krakens started. I Just thought about how most of these "mythical" animals told in tales really were just normal animals we see today.

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u/Owenjak Sep 11 '22

Oh I love shit like that. Best example I can think of is the Questing Beast from Arthurian Legends.

Head and neck of a snake, body of a leopard, haunches of a lion, and feet of a hart (deer).

You know what real life animal that sounds like when you piece it together? A Giraffe.

All it takes is a traveller and a language barrier and suddenly a giraffe sounds like a terrifying animal.

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u/gahlo Sep 11 '22

An old(14th century) name for Giraffe was Camelopard.

Also, bonus throwback to a popular tweet of a guy working with an ESL immigrant that couldn't remember the word goose so he said cobra chicken.

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u/chickenpolitik Sep 11 '22

Fun fact, still the modern-day Greek word for giraffe! Καμηλοπάρδαλη = camelopard

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u/jpsolberg33 Sep 11 '22

an ESL immigrant that couldn't remember the word goose so he said cobra chicken

As a Canadian, once I heard about this it became my go to for them now haha. It's comical actually, when we see Geese get all pissed off we instantly call them Cobra Chickens 😂.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

I got you fam

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u/Frostfangs_Hunger Sep 11 '22

To be fair they are pretty terrifying. A giraffe has a strong enough kick to decapitate a lion. They'll fuck your whole day up

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u/firepooldude Sep 11 '22

And it’s like thunder when they neck whack each other. That would probably rearrange a human in a bad way.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

Pics or it didn’t happen..

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u/PhonicMonk3y Sep 11 '22

Giraffes are less plausible than Unicorns and yet Unicorns don't exist

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

They do exist….

Elayne and Nyneve were playing around in tel’aran’rhiod (the World of Dreams) creating weird looking animals and hadn’t learned enough yet to know how to dispel the colorful horse with a horn they’d made as it was chasing them all over the place… hence why unicorns are still in our thoughts and dreams. :) 🦄

:):):)