A must read, I implore my audience to give it a min: https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/ :)
Witcher et al, you say?
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Mmmm, no, very mammalian
This guy can't lizardpost.
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.)
Thanks for the link!
I got one person to read it, I am happy.
You got another one to read it :)
yisss
also read it and really enjoyed it.
It's one of my faves. 🤗
Very interesting article, worth posting by itself
I already have. It didn't get much reaction.
Make that two!
Good read, but is it really still that common to use "Indian" that way?
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..
Interesting. In Canada you only hear it from things named a while ago.
I mean the obvious answer is to smell and then eat them. That’s what I do.
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.