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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

A must read, I implore my audience to give it a min: https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/ :)

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[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago
[-] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 14 points 2 days ago

This guy can't lizardpost.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago

Witcher et al, you say?

[-] sepi@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago
[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 3 days ago

I got one person to read it, I am happy.

[-] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

You got another one to read it :)

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago
[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 2 days ago

also read it and really enjoyed it.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

It's one of my faves. 🤗

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Make that two!

Good read, but is it really still that common to use "Indian" that way?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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..

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Interesting. In Canada you only hear it from things named a while ago.

[-] moonlight@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

Very interesting article, worth posting by itself

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I already have. It didn't get much reaction.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.)

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

I mean the obvious answer is to smell and then eat them. That’s what I do.

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