Big bird has forward facing eyes, which is usually the mark of a predator.
Elefants have them too!
I’m sure there is an exception for creatures made from fabric and foam, somewhere.
Makes sense. Evolution gives prey animals eyes with as wide a field of vision as possible, so they can detect predators better. Elephants are too large for predators to mess with and so is big bird.
Maybe it evolved from a predatory ancestor and didn’t get selected for different position of the eyes?
We know from Big Bird’s extended family that his species has a wide spread of individual variation, and given that none of them reside in the wild none of them are likely to suffer predation due to what would otherwise be a mal-adaptation, providing a springboard for even more genetic variation from generation to generation.
Just look at how wildly different looking specific humans can be from one another, even within a single community.
I’d hope they don’t allow predators on set, but we saw what happened at Nickelodeon with Dan Schneider.
So they admit there are predatory Muppets.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elmo-puppeteer-kevin-clash-cleared-of-sexual-abuse-charges/
Cleared by the statute of limitations…
I reacted the same when I found out that Teletubbies are actually babies, implying that there are mature, adult Teletubbies that we don’t see.
Oscar the Grouch is a scavenger.
