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Big Bird (mander.xyz)

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[-] Lexam@lemmy.ca 85 points 4 months ago

So they admit there are predatory Muppets.

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago

I reacted the same when I found out that Teletubbies are actually babies, implying that there are mature, adult Teletubbies that we don't see.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

I believe the proper name is "Teletuborians"

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 37 points 4 months ago

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 29 points 4 months ago

Cookie monster is definitely a predator.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

It used to be more obvious than it is now.

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 27 points 4 months ago

Look at Animal.

They keep him drugged up, and he's still barely controlled. Without the darts every 3 hours, he'd tear everyone else to shreds just to feed the hunger within him.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Well the Count is a vampire.....

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

The world, too...

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

One second has passed, ah ah ah.
Two seconds have passed, ah ah ah.

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

The world, too…

Set to drai-ii-aaa-ii-aaa-aaa-in.

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Time will now resume!

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 12 points 4 months ago

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elmo-puppeteer-kevin-clash-cleared-of-sexual-abuse-charges/

Cleared by the statute of limitations...

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

The puppeteer was cleared. Elmo is a serial molester though.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

Predators have forward-facing eyes.

Muppets have forward-facing eyes.

The science is clear.

[-] joao@aussie.zone 40 points 4 months ago

Big bird has forward facing eyes, which is usually the mark of a predator.

[-] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Elefants have them too!

I'm sure there is an exception for creatures made from fabric and foam, somewhere.

[-] odium@programming.dev 25 points 4 months ago

Makes sense. Evolution gives prey animals eyes with as wide a field of vision as possible, so they can detect predators better. Elephants are too large for predators to mess with and so is big bird.

[-] manucode@infosec.pub 11 points 4 months ago

The elephant in the picture though is smaller than a mouse

[-] ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

The reference mouse is oversized

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago

But the elephant is also roughly the size of a duck.

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

Can confirm. I measured on my screen, estimating the trunk length extended, and it's about 6 cm trunk to tail (or 2⅜" in the US).

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

I had to go look it up. Not sure that picture is accurate, mind, it’s the only one I could find. (Though lots of comments about herds being led by a blind elephant…. I’m sure there’s a joke in there.)

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 13 points 4 months ago

Maybe it evolved from a predatory ancestor and didn't get selected for different position of the eyes?

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

We know from Big Bird's extended family that his species has a wide spread of individual variation, and given that none of them reside in the wild none of them are likely to suffer predation due to what would otherwise be a mal-adaptation, providing a springboard for even more genetic variation from generation to generation.

Just look at how wildly different looking specific humans can be from one another, even within a single community.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

And dragons have wide-set eyes in pretty much every depiction. So that brings up the question: What was hunting all the dragons?

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

I'd hope they don't allow predators on set, but we saw what happened at Nickelodeon with Dan Schneider.

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Oscar the Grouch is a scavenger.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 points 4 months ago

That's what he wants you to think...

Oscar is a form of Trapdoor Spider. He blends in with his environment until unsuspecting prey is near, then hauls them into his den to consume at his leisure.