Croc = Orcc
Reptilian muscles fatigue waaay faster than mammalian’s. That’s probably the reason why chewing doesn’t work for them. Also, the white muscle from reptiles is very good at giving explosive force, which is exactly what they are doing instead…
This is a physiological difference given their evolution. I remember it from college. Biologist here.
And . the same applies to why we can’t catch lizards, they are so fast… Right?.. until they aren’t. The trick to catch them is to make them run a little ;p
Also, the white muscle from reptiles is very good at giving explosive force
Why do we need to bring race into everything!?
And now I just imagine them as wrestlers suplexing their meals.
A croc themed beat em up game would be fuckin hilarious
These jaws aren’t suited for chewing. They’re suited for tearing.
Thats not… inaccurate.
If it ain’t broke…
…slam it on the water again.
I’m pretty sure whatever that was is pretty fucking broken now…
Crocodillians are so fucking cool!
It must be working, considering the results.
Can’t iterate on perfection.
Yeah for real, being that tense while eating can’t be good for your digestive system.
Alternatively, if it has worked for tens of millions of years, then why is no one else doing it?
Because they were able to survive without doing it.
Though iirc some birds of prey do the sky version of this. Or maybe the cliff version.
I love how there’s multiple species of birds that like to drop stuff from far up to break it open. Fucking chuck it!
Has your test worked out?
Yes! Result: PieFed > Lemmy
Because they already are and no one seems to be able to stop them.
Can’t out croc the croc.
Maybe because anyone else that wants to use that needs to become them.
Nice to know Demo hasn’t died of alcoholism yet. Still waiting on that next video though
I misread “buttfucking” as “butterfucking”, which I am now going to start using.
The word or activity? Which will you start employing?
Well, it is organic lubricant, I suppose.
If it ain’t broke…
“Ain’t broke” is under selling this. Evolutionarily, this is clearly the optimal solution.
Needs more crab
Me: Choking on a bone
My dinner guests: stunned after I bit into the whole Thanksgiving turkey and slammed my face into the table
“Ain’t broke” is a lot better of a description than “fittest”.
Evolution selects for the first thing that happens to work. It’ doesn’t have to work particularly well, only well enough to not die from it.
It’s also a local maxima trap. To shift to chewing, they would have to change both bite behaviour, and teeth structure. The intermediate stage is a lot worse than either style.
Even if chewing was the better option, it’s inaccessible from the crocs current method.
not to die too early from it.
Passing on genes is successful enough for evolution.
Like male cochineals, who can’t feed themselves after reaching adulthood, but are able to reproduce before dying of hunger. Evolution can be really cruel.
My impression is that carnivores need teeth that pierce and rip, so they can’t do much ruminating.
Most mammalian carnivores have a sort of mix. They have the piercing canines, then their molars act like scissors to slice off hunks of meat. Herbivore and human molars are more for crushing.
