• RBG
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    One wolf killing a moose is a very difficult feat. But when that wolf succeeds he gets more than half of the meat still.

    Six wolves will have a much easier time killing a single moose. They will have almost all meat for themselves, but now have to divide it among them. If that would be done fairly every wolf would only get a third of what they would get if they killed a moose alone.

    I don’t think what’s said in the screenshot is as straightforward as they think it is. I’d be more convinced hunting in packs has a lot more to do with being able to tackle stronger prey. A moose isn’t defenseless.

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        They can eat out the innards and use the carcass as a shelter like a tauntaun…

        Then when the meat is all gone, they make an epic robot out of their bones.

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        When the outside is a freezer, yeah. Given the usual range of moose that’s true for like half the year.

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        It only needs to eat 53% according to the discussion above.

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        5 months ago

        If the bird fact is true then no, since a single wolf wouldn’t be enough to scare away all the birds they would lose some more moose flesh from scavengers

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    Actuallyyy…

    Goose comes from Old English, where they pluralized [go:s] (think “goes” with a soft S) by adding [iz] (like “ease”).

    When saying [go:siz], it was kinda hard for the mouth to switch the vowels from the [o] to the [i] quickly, so to save themselves the trouble, they’d change the first vowel to make it a little more similar to the second, so [go:siz] became [ge:siz].

    Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [z]. [ge:si] (think “guessy” but the “e” lasts a bit longer than usual).

    Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [i]. [ge:s] (“guess” with that same drawn out “e”).

    📯It’s the Great Vowel Shift!📯 Now, [go:s] and [ge:s] become [gu:s] and [gi:s]. Almost there!

    The vowels become a tad short over time, and now, you have [gus] and [gis] which are written “goose” and “geese”.

    But “MOOSE”? That’s Algonquin. It has nothing to do with all that noise. “But they sound the same and are written the same?!” So? Haven’t you heard? English orthography is a dumpster fire. Nobody knows what they’re doing. Not even the words.

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    5 months ago

    I like the thought that just like goose and geese the plural of moose should respectively be meese.

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    If it had to kill the moose 11 times it didn’t do a very good job the first 10 times. That’s why they hunt in packs.

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    What’s up with these percentages? How could these possibly be known? You would have to know how much the animal weighed before hand and have control over a lot of variables.

    And they cited Reddit…

    [more citations needed]

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    I am struggling to imagine a lone wolf killing an adult moose. A juvenile or elderly/sick one maybe. Unless it managed to hamstring it real early on it just seems implausible

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      A wolf is a lot bigger than you think, also, they have greater agility over a moose id reckon

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        Sure, but moosen are like 15 foot tall multi ton kaiju with bone spikes and an attitude problem. Ive been to wolf sanctuaries and I understand wolf size, but it’s not in the same league