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I mean, consider cats. They are basically exactly like lions or leopards, exactly the same mannerisms and basic behavior. Just tiny. Or birds. You've got tiny birds like hummingbirds, and condors, they basically move the same loving way or fish. Bluegill, whale shark, same poo poo But there arent any giant mice. or giant spiders. or giant squirrels im just asking questions p.s. while i'm at it, why arent there huge bats that eat enormous amounts of very prolific bugs, like fuckin bat dragons an poo poo
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i knew someone would bring up capybaras. they are not relevant! do those freaks look like mice at all??
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https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
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is there a mouse-sized capybara ? tell me that. and no, dont tell a chipmunk to me, not the same poo poo at all not reading that
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Insects are limited in size because they don't have lungs, they passively absorb oxygen from their environment. They can only get so big before math suffocates them, as an increase in size only increases surface area by a square while it increases volume by a cube. Flying animals have similar issues. The largest you can get and still fly in our atmosphere is pretty much condor sized and bats will never get that big because they lack feathers and the hollow bones birds have, so they're too heavy to make it to condor sized. I don't know why there isn't a very large mouse animal but I think there could be. There are some larger rodents and to to a certain extent how different would a giant rat be to a pig? Sometimes the answer for why not when it comes to evolution is just luck.
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Sheep-Goats posted:Insects are limited in size because they don't have lungs, they passively absorb oxygen from their environment. They can only get so big before math suffocates them, as an increase in size only increases surface area by a square while it increases volume by a cube. Given that rats are cute and nice, if a giant one was cute and nice as well it would be way better than a pig, which is not cute or nice, but in fact awful and deserves what it gets.
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Don't give me that poo poo about hollow bones. Why the gently caress dont bats have hollow bones? Because they are loving weak apparently, and thus deserve to die why do we have tiny leopards and huge leopards? Why do we have species that are microcosms of other species, yet this fails to present in other areas? what about fractals? what about that? there used to be giant sloths. now they are all small and lovely. there were other giant versions of existing mammals, now they suck. some we human ate, and are gone. But what about the giant mice? I ask the academy and to expand, what about the giant earthworms?
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Nov 21, 2016 12:31
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This thread is just mom joke bait through and through you bastard!
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Nov 21, 2016 12:34
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giant mice are elephants OP this is why mice scare them
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Sheep-Goats posted:This thread is just mom joke bait through and through you bastard! where are the giant mice and earthworms Once horses were tiny, and developed to be bigger and became draught-animals why do we not have mighty rats and rabbits hauling food carts in third-world nations?? ok i mean lots of the third world are desert countries, but what about Kangaroos? They are loving strong, why havent they been domesticated yet? Some Aussies wanna splain that poo poo to me yet??
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Nov 21, 2016 13:00
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Giant mice were one more apparition we traded off when we decided not to live in a 15th century Flemish hellscape painted by a mad genius? Alternatively, in this timeline cats won the war against mice. Had the mice acted quicker or bred more prodigiously...
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In that case, do we exist in a scenario of Schrodinger's Rat?
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Giant mice would be wiped out by predators like lions and wolfs.
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if it's any consolation giant earthworms are real
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The Dennis System posted:Giant mice would be wiped out by predators like lions and wolfs. owe uh huh, like giant sloths and earthworms were??
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Man, Redwall is a lot darker than I remember.
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Thanks to this thread I found out the wandering albatross has the longest wingspan currently at loving 10-13 feet. It can stay in the air for HOURS without flapping its wings and only weighs like 28 pounds. Holy poo poo. They apparently circumnavigate the globe 3 times a year   
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i read somewhere that field mice are one of the few animals in the world that can both sustain a fall from a high distance because of their light weight but also able to break the surface tension of water. i have not followed up this with any sort of research and it could have been some fever dream i had during my times in st petersburg fighting consumption
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Better Fred Than Dead posted:Thanks to this thread I found out the wandering albatross has the longest wingspan currently at loving 10-13 feet. It can stay in the air for HOURS without flapping its wings and only weighs like 28 pounds. The wandering albatross loving owns.
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evolution dictates that every now and then there's gonna be a big fuckin mouse, like maybe one that grows to twice the size of the others then it's gonna try and crawl underneath a closed door like its little mice bros (hinged ribs so their whole body can go squiiiiish down into the floor to get under poo poo) and it gets stuck and starves to death while the little mice point and laugh
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=741_1479637997
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OK real answer, it's evolution's answer to a problem: how can a mammal survive in an environment with limited resources and tons of predators? Small size means not as much food is needed for each individual, easier to hide from predators, easier to run and evade predators, and much faster breeding. Given the right conditions, like less predators and/or different food, over thousands to millions of years they might get bigger, like you see with the two videos above (Coypu and Gambian Pouched Rat).
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Nov 21, 2016 15:44
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OP i have located this artist's rendering on what a giant mouse might look like chilling stuff!
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Nov 21, 2016 15:47
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a thread about giant mice and no one's posted ferrets? smdh http://i.imgur.com/4p5GgOE.gifv
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Nov 21, 2016 15:51
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Zippy the Bummer posted:is there a mouse-sized capybara Yea they're called guinea pigs.
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Heres a cool Rodent Fact. They have no gag reflex and can't vomit, making every mouse a world champion deepthroater if it weren't for the fact that they are all teeth.
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Maldoror posted:OK real answer, it's evolution's answer to a problem: how can a mammal survive in an environment with limited resources and tons of predators? Small size means not as much food is needed for each individual, easier to hide from predators, easier to run and evade predators, and much faster breeding. Given the right conditions, like less predators and/or different food, over thousands to millions of years they might get bigger, like you see with the two videos above (Coypu and Gambian Pouched Rat). yeah nature's pretty cool like that a bigger mouse ends up needing more food so it can't live solely on grains it finds in the dirt, ends up having to climb trees to get nuts and poo poo; unfortunately living in trees requires a mouse to be a really fuckin good climber and jumper one way for a mouse to jump better is if its tail is a lot heavier and more flexible, allowing it to be used for maneuvering, and even then being so fuckin big requires the mouse to learn brand new skills, such as gathering and stashing additional food supplies for the winter months whoops, mouse just evolved into a squirrel
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For the same reason there aren't tiny people op. Chimps aren't that much smaller so don't even try that poo poo.
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Nov 21, 2016 17:02
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OP, real answer: God just didn't feel like making big mice 6000 years ago when he made all the other animals.
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They are assholes to keep because you need a group of them and running water. As they'll only poo poo and piss in the pool.
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I never knew that Mike Stoklasa had a pet capy
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bradzilla posted:a thread about giant mice and no one's posted ferrets? smdh tube cats
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if i was a ferret i would totally go first and be like , come in coast is clear and when my ferret buds rolled into the tube i would lay down a nasty fart right in their faces 
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Do you not think ROUS exist OP? smdh
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