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where's my fur coat smh (mander.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

"I want a fur coat"

"Isn't that cruelty to animals?"

"You misunderstand"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I mean, I know a couple of guys that aren't that far off this.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ears are wrong since they suggest directional ears, but we don't have the muscle, or critically the ligament attachment points on the skull, for that.

As far as claws go, again, no marks of strong cartilege / ligament / bed on the fingers and toes that would indicate functional claws.

Nipples: the smoking gun would be a pregnant woman or an infant, but theyd be able to see that unlike rodents, humans arent having more than two babies at a time outside of extremely rare cases, more than two babies just dont have room to fully gestate, so theyd likely cut that number down.

Fur: the sheer amount of plastic clothing we've generated will put that to rest fast.

Whiskers: There would be ligament attachment marks on the skull where the muscles used to move them would have been. Also maybe blood vessel/neuron marks on the bones.

Also the almost complete lack of snout would indicate heavy hand usage and not diving into things headfirst like rodents and cats have to.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

May I introduce you to basically any interpretation of what dinosaurs looked like, ever (which is what this joke is about)?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dinosaurs-art-paleoartists-mistakes

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yup, and I am aware how outdated that artwork is. Thats where I pulled that analysis from.

I'd suggest Raptor Chatter and Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong on youtube.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Whiskers don't make sense on a creature that doesn't walk on all 4 anyway. They are only useful if they have a chance to contact something in front of you before the rest of your body.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

especially when the animal traveled upright on two legs, which it seemed likely to have done when climbing or scouting for prey

i.e. on all fours the rest of the time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

No need to bring your mom into this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

~~alien~~ furry reproduction

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Very unlikely because we have sculptures and remains at pompei and similar.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Those remain to be discovered by the alien archaeologists. They may be space-faring extra-terrestrials, but they're not great at their job tbh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I mean, that's basically what we do when we study ancient hominids.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Aliens finding this image in the future: these humans are weird, imagining how we think and stuff

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Fake

They would definitely assume a tail because we have the bone there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

But isn't the bone to short to be a tail?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (3 children)

And there is no indication of ears or whiskers. This meme is a furrys fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago

The joke is that it's basing human apperance on other rodents. So this is definitely missing a tail.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's also no reason they would think that we had claws.

This is baseless furry propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Smh when science community cant read. It explicitly states that they found no surviving hominids and the only mammal The closest thing they found to a human was a mouse. So they took a human skeleton and gave it mouse features because we're both mammals so clearly we are the same.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

SIX nipples? Damn it's gonna be expensive when I head back to the piercing shop.