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Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth(www.discovermagazine.com)

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Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org
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I always pictured mammoths being more docile: disinclined to charge. Didn’t realize they could be more of a wooly bully.

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tetrachromacy@lemmy.world
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Wooly bully?

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grue@lemmy.world
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Watch it now, watch it!

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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Elephants charge pretty easily, so that part doesn’t surprise me.

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Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org
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I did that thing where I lied on the internet. The preamble was there purely as a setup for the greatest joke of all time.

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RandomStickman@fedia.io
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Worth

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RicoBerto@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Yeah, if your main form of offense/defense is that you are: large, and have massive fuck-off tusks on your front then charging seems to be a pretty good go to.

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