• noride@lemm.ee
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    23 hours ago

    Prion diseases like that make deer do allllll sorts of kooky shit, man. Definitely possible.

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      21 hours ago

      It’s otherwise possible, but actually having it stand up and be able to keep it’s balance sounds like horseshit. (edit, it’s not, they totally can) Also I don’t think it intentionally bashed it’s brains in to eat them, but I wouldn’t be surprised they might when some spills. (And ai think OP would exaggerate, it’d probably be blood, but having some brain matter leak out isn’t out of the question with it still being conscious, I think.

      Like trying imaging a horse walking on two legs. It’s just the anatomy doesn’t really allow for it, even to the extent that cats and dogs do, which can do some steps.

      Edit that was some utter bullshit guessing by me. Most wrong I’ve been about animals in a while, I think, got to own up to it.

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        Deer can absolutely stand on two legs, and even stumble around a bit. Here is an example, looks like it’s in search of food:

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MmBlC24jonM&pp=

        Anyhow, I do agree it’s very improbable, but the story is certainly possible, especially if you ignore the likely hyperbole about “brains everywhere”.

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          Oh yeah, my bad. Totally proved me wrong there. Don’t know why I thought they wouldn’t. Perhaps my intuition thought more about massive horses, actually. I feel like they’d be too front heavy to pull anything like that off with their massive necks, but seeing how incorrect I was about deer, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn I’m wrong in that, too.

          Oh yeah. I totally am.

          https://youtu.be/xfTGXawZe6M

          Anyhow, I do agree it’s very improbable, but the story is certainly possible, especially if you ignore the likely hyperbole about “brains everywhere”.

          Agreed.

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            20 hours ago

            Well that horse is majestic af. I am going to go ahead and assume she enjoys performing the trick, otherwise I wish her luck in crushing her captors.