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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oscar the Grouch is a scavenger.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That honestly fits Big Bird's personality.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 months ago (7 children)

So they admit there are predatory Muppets.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cookie monster is definitely a predator.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

It used to be more obvious than it is now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well the Count is a vampire.....

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

The world, too...

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

Time will now resume!

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

The world, too…

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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

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

Predators have forward-facing eyes.

Muppets have forward-facing eyes.

The science is clear.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

I believe the proper name is "Teletuborians"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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?

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

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Elefants have them too!

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

[–] [email protected] 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.)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The elephant in the picture though is smaller than a mouse

[–] [email protected] 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).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The reference mouse is oversized

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

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