Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Moth Light Media" channel.

  1. I was confused to learn that brown bears were the biggest land predator, because polar bears were bigger, but polar bears aren't land mammals, it turns out.
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  2. If you've seen giraffe actually mixing it up, their bellies aren't protected by being high off the ground. You just can't get close to a full-grown giraffe without getting kicked to death. Imagine a 20-foot-tall, 2-ton horse with ill intention. If you're close enough to threaten it, you're close enough to get kicked 20 feet. And god help you if you approach from in front. That's where it's most dangerous, striking with its front hooves. Same as horses.
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  3.  k halliday  : Their legs ARE ridiculously long, too.
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  4. Thanks for educating me a little about our natural history. Whatever it takes, try to keep your stuff up, you're going to collect many patrons over time.
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  5. I always wondered if there might be more harrying involved in feline hunting. Just because the kill, itself, is done in a rush doesn't mean there aren't many rushes in a long, determined night's/day's hunting. Mountain lion can cover upwards of 20 miles a day over all terrains. It just seems to me that failing once, a big cat isn't going to just call it a night. It's not just as obvious of an endurance test as it is with canines, but it seems to me that a cat's persistent and mobile enough to stress a herd for days on end, if need be.
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  6.  @gonufc  : Inasmuch as the concept of God is unfalsifiable, it is as rational to believe there is one as to be certain there isn't one, if you understand Pascal's Wager. If believing gives you a shot at immortality and the evidence of your senses gives you none, the smart money gets religion. And if believing there is one makes you a better person, then I'm all for it, too. Believing Jesus sees everything is a way to port a conscience to an end-user.
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  7.  Sparticus Booker  : Bushmen hunt in the heat of the day. Humans have sweat glands and smooth skin. Ideal for evaporation. 4-footed grazers are defeated by heat exhaustion. Bushmen do indeed track a specific animal, just jogging and walking at a brisk pace through the heat of the day, until the grazing animal locks up. By the time they catch up to it, the animal is essentially helpless.
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  8.  @AnkhAnanku  : Over what area is that bite force measured? At what distance from the fulcrum? Also, the lion is stabbing you with four 4-inch spikes from 2 different directions. I'm not sure your numbers tell the whole story.
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  9. This channel came up and keeps coming up, even though I only subscribed after you mentioned it.
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  10. Amphibians start out with gills. I imagine some similar mechanism was at work in the transition from yolk to placenta. Maybe placenta is partly vestigial, performing much of the oxygen exchange function that is now handled by the umbilical cord.
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  11. You use the word "adapt" almost as if species evolve due to some Lamarckian process. They don't. They evolve because that one-in-a-billion mutation happens to have an advantage. At the end of a catastrophe, different mutations suddenly become viable, and I'd bet they come with some weird mutations along with the key mutation that worked. Those weird mutations make it to future generations because of the part of it that was so good it survived preferentially. The "new species" that emerge after major catastrophe wouldn't have made it at all without the catastrophe that changed all the rules. Very few species do much "adapting." They do what they do until it doesn't work, any more, and then something else - something quite a bit different - takes over. This probably doesn't make any sense to anybody. It just seems like the way we describe these processes is as if species adapt to survive, when they really don't. The mutation that works better is the one that takes over. Most mutations are anti-survival. It's not like the Kiwi birds all got together and said "We're gonna make a new kind of beak that works better."
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  12.  @DanielPereira-ey9nt  Main problem I see is that they're cats and they're really big. Imagine if your house cat were as big as a lion, with exactly the same behavior traits as a house cat. Even you, as its "momma kitty" might end up meat, but none of the neighbors would be safe.
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  13. The only place I see a 4-tusker is in the damn thumbnail.
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