Which animals are much bigger than you previously thought? I always assumed that okapis were about the size of a donkey or an average deer
Though I've seen them in person, I always forget how ginormous a moose actually is.
What about the opposite: I was staying with a friend in colorado, he has a house in the mountains, and Isaw my first black bear in the wild, and I genuinely thought it was just a really fat dopey black lab until it got closer.
I always assumed they were about the size of a hare
>>5165629that's why they say this
>>5165629>>5165763even so they still kill people in north america each year
>>5165618well they're basically giraffes so it makes sense
i mean it IS in the name, but still
>>5165886 No they don't. Since 1900, they've killed 67 people. That's all. In 126 years, they've killed one person roughly every 687 days. That's almost two years. 43 people have been killed by dogs in 2025 in just the US alone. Dogs kill more people in 19 months than black bears have killed in 1500 months.
>>5165907these things have huge dicks
>>5165917So what you are saying is that they still kill people in the US then
>>5165939Don't backpedal on>each yearor try to move goalposts just because you were wrong.
>>5165942My bad i'm NTA and i didn't read the "each year" part
>>5165907Were you also surprised that it eats ants?
>>5165618there's a guy in my town that has some bactrian camels he walks around and they're huge, probably 8 feet tall. I always thought they were horse size.
>>5165917There are over 100 million dogs in NA. Are there 100 million black bears? Are there remotely even close to that? Are you a negro? Would you be incapable of understanding per capita?
>>5166015Jesus Christ, you're retarded.
>>5166019No you are a negro then. Figures.
>>5166021Such a dummy.
>>5165757Ohh wow,, same.
>>5165618I thought these fellas were raccoon sized, they're bigger than most dogs.
>>5165618Wandering AlbatrossExpectation>Oh it's just a big seagull with really long wingsReality>
Before I found out what they looked like I had no idea tuna fish were as massive as they are, I thought they were just like little salmon fellas.
>>5166118This shocked me at first too, Albatross are so massive that they can't even land properly, they just slow down as much as possible and slam into the ground.
For most of my life I imagined pigs as being the size of dogs only to learn that they're much bigger.
>>5166142Depends on the breed. Micro pigs are roughly the size and weight of large dogs, 75-150lbs. But yeah, people expect micros to be the size of kittens because unscrupulous breeders marketed them by only showing videos and photos of piglets and calling them cute things like teacup pigs, These Little Piggies, Pennywell Pocket Pigs™ and so on. If you want a real shock, look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla
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>>5165618I always have the inverse feeling when I see a snow leopard in real life, they're actually so much smaller than how they look in pictures.
I remember thinking Emperor Penguins were huge, but they're only like 2.5 feet tall.
>>5166174Are you sure you aren't thinking of another species? i'm pretty sure emperors can be like 4 feet tall (which is still not that big but you now)
>>5165917Dogs statpad on babies
>>5166171Snow leopard is my go to medium size cat for comparisons. Still a sizable cat.
>>5166118they are the biggest flying bird alive, aren't they? along with condors, I think
>>5165921I'm afraid to search that up
>>5166579I always forget which one is bigger but yes
>>5165619This. Moose are fucking giant wilderness goats.Any whale, but that's sorta cheating. Still, the pure scale difference in a human to even the larger dolphins is humbling, and something like a humpback is straight up testicle shrinking. Then blue whales are like 50% larger - though I've never seen them IRL I'd assume they'll give anyone immediate thalassophobia.
>>5166884https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLNNMFjFcIYou have no idea how long it took me to find this video without a retarded ai voice speaking over it
>>5165618Whatever the hell this thing was.
>>5166891>You have no idea how long it took me to find this videoYes I do. About 54 minutes and 58 seconds.
>>5168137kek
>>5166028you're probably conflating african and american porcupinesamerican ones are pretty small
>>5168216>american ones are pretty smallNo they're fucking not. The prickly cunts are, like, 50lbs.
>>5165618Bactrian camels.Pic related is actually roughly the time I realized.
>>5168416The Chad Bactrian vs the Virgin Dromedary
I thought they were just a medium sized fish before I knew how fuck huge they are
Grey wolves
>>5166127They need wheels
>>5165757Well fuck i did too.
For me, it's rats. I lived into my late 30s without ever having seen a wild rat. Then I found a dead one on my doorstep one morning, possibly from a neighbourhood cat my wife was friendly with.I knew rats were big but I wasn't expecting just their heads to be the size of a whole mouse or vole.I know it sounds retarded, I just was never around wild rats and while we had rats at my high school's animal lab, they were friendly, domesticated ones. I just figured wild ones wouldn't be so big. Still haven't seen a live wild rat yet.
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>>5165968that's an elephant seal, and their males are bigger than walruses
>>5166171That's manuls for me. For some reason I thought they'd be somewhere between a large wildcat and a small lynx but they're actually smaller than your average house cat.
>>5168804I just searched walrus and picked the first image where it looked big. I am truly sorry and will do better next time, I could blame the search engine but ultimately the responsibility for species confirmation lies with me. I hope that in time you will come to forgive me.
>>5165618tuna, I think it's because they look like the most stereotypical normal kind of fish that you associate with being like a foot long, so it's weird to see how gigantic they can get
>>5165968yeah I wonder why the ELEPHANT seal is that big, truely a mistery>>5168827nta, and it's less about species confirmation and just not knowing what a walrus looks like, but I forgive you
>>5168834How on earth do they fit them into the cans?
>>5168834When i was like 5 years old i saw some guys pulling out out of the water and i was traumatized for the rest of my life. Looking at that shit made me feel like a fucking flea next to it
>>5165763if it's black, jump the fuck backif it's brown, make it frownif it's white, put up a fight
>>5168834I'll second that.
>>5166687It's basically a limb
>>5165907pretty obvious that's a eymktkpturbxy9howu5ywmzodexytjkzjm5mtkynjy4owfkzdg4ngzkmy5qcgerlqlnamwawsm, yeah
>>5168842In the unlikely case this was a serious post, they get a bazillion cans of meat out of one fish. If you bought a whole tuna like the one in that pic you'll end up paying $20k+ easily .
>>5169307Nonsense. That's a bluefin, yes, but they're not nearly as expensive as you claim. That fish looks to be about 600lbs and I know they are sold dockside for about $7/lb. It is almost certainly worth less than $5k. At most, $7k, but that's extremely unlikely.
>>5168834It surprised me when I saw a story about them returning to Britain's waters
>>5168834Tunas are actually pretty strange-looking, they only seem like stereotypical fish to you because you're used to seeing them on cans.
>>5168804a full grown male elephant seal can surpass hippos in weight btw
>>5166120Yeah, vultures can be huge.
Chickens. I've seen some big chickens
Hyenas are over twice the size of a golden retriever.
>>5169590hugely CUTE more like
Big draught horses.Fucking massive.
>>5171463What's their temperament?
