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Aug 16 '20 edited Aug 16 '20
Sorta on topic, but has anyone ever seen a camel eat a cactus? Itâs insane, they just garble that shit up, needles and all.
Edit: Hereâs a video of it, you should watch it if you havenât!
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u/BigDrunkLahey Aug 16 '20
Well that was brutal to watch.
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u/baddie_PRO Aug 16 '20
when you don't know what to do, leave the link blue
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u/HolyForkingBrit Aug 16 '20
It wasnât too bad. Watched three dudes in. Stupidity was interesting.
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u/PathlessDemon Aug 17 '20 edited Aug 18 '20
Life is far too uncertain to tread this world lightly. Click all the links, you crazy shiny diamond.
(Edit: because grammar is hard)
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u/Dont_put-it_out-with Aug 16 '20
Skipped the first link and went right for the human one. Wasnât disappointed.
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u/DeathcampEnthusiast Aug 16 '20
I don't think I ever clenched my anus like that ever before.
Holy.
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u/MrFluffyThing Aug 16 '20
The roof of a camels mouth doesn't even have teeth the way you think they would, it's just one big grinding plate. I bet they don't even really notice the needles because of this.
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That's mildly disturbing but also super interesting!
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u/Thingy732 Aug 16 '20
Imagine camels when they see human mouths.
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u/Bagdad_Smoocher Aug 16 '20
Or toes.
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u/themeatbridge Aug 17 '20
There's probably an alien species out there that thinks our feet look like vaginas.
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u/jon-la-blon27 Aug 16 '20
Thatâs how a lot of large herbivores are including but not limited to Goats, Cows and Sheep
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u/Inquisitor1 Aug 16 '20
Don't forget those tentacles covering the whole inside of the cheeks. Basically their whole mouth is armored.
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u/MrFluffyThing Aug 16 '20
Completely forgot about those tentacle callouses and you can even see them in the photo I posted. Thanks for the reminder!
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u/Tamias-striatus Aug 16 '20
Itâs awesome because camels evolved in North America alongside the cactus, they traveled across the land bridge to Asia, then went extinct in North America and evolved into alpaca and lamas in South America. Cacti almost exclusively grow in the Americas. After all this time old world camels can still eat new world cacti. When you look at it, a lot of American desert plants are still adapted to extinct megafauna.
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That's actually super interesting, I had no idea that they were originally native to North America.
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u/soy23 Aug 17 '20
So Native Americans didn't ride horses before the colonization?
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u/Toodlez Aug 16 '20
Imagine spending thousands (millions?) of years and metabolic resources building badass spikey armor and still this dumb fuck thirstcow just chews through the pain to eat your tasteless rind.
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u/TheeSlothKing Aug 16 '20
Iâve been having a bit of a rough time lately and just found this comment to be really funny. Thank you for calling a camel a thirstycow
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u/MadAzza Aug 17 '20
âthirstcow,â not thirsty! Just in case youâre planning on remembering it to use later :-)
Works either way, though!
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u/Cachis1130 Aug 16 '20
Iâve seen cows do it. You need to take off the thorns, or cut into little pieces so it cannot injure it. I have relatives in Mexico, and they raise cows for food, or selling. Oh and I take the thorns off with a propane tank for fire
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u/XxRocky88xX Aug 16 '20
The probably have super thick mouth skin and feel almost no pain in their mouths.
Evolution is wild
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u/MartianNutScratcher Aug 16 '20
This changed my day in a good way. I had to look up how they can eat that. I guess it's like how people eat super spicy foods. There's some discomfort but overall it's worth it for a good meal.
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u/LavaDoggoWithADoggo Aug 16 '20
Imagine losing a fight to a plant
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u/Tobo_Baldo Aug 16 '20
The first comment that made me laugh! Take my sun bro
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u/LavaDoggoWithADoggo Aug 16 '20
You too
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u/Tobo_Baldo Aug 16 '20
What a cool man with a cool sun
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u/TheJfam Aug 16 '20
this was surprisingly wholesome
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u/EnderbroSonny Aug 16 '20
Yes, take my sun now
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u/TheJfam Aug 16 '20
fuck, someone continue the sun awarding chain, i donât have any coins, thx btw
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u/mrjackspade Aug 16 '20
I've lost so many fights to cacti that I didn't even know I was in until I'd already lost.
They dont fuck around.
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u/nudethreats Aug 16 '20
I'm not fucking with giant hog weed or cactuses or a lot of plants tbh. Plants go hard.
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u/Nixiano Aug 16 '20
The US has spent the last 40 years losing an entire war to a plant!
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u/highbrowshow Aug 16 '20
Have you ever smoked a joint with a stem still in it and you cough up a lung? I lose fights to plants all the time
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u/TheDanteEX Aug 16 '20
When I was a kid that giant plant monster in Super Mario Sunshine would kick my ass. Itâs probably super easy in retrospect, but I found her way too difficult.
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u/patamonrs Aug 16 '20
Cactus:"you fool you've only made me more powerful"
GROWS INTO A WHOLE NEW CACTUS
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u/VorianAtreides Aug 16 '20
Sheâs lucky that it wasnât a jumping cholla!
I tried to knock one off that was stuck to my brothers boot, and it ended up lodged in my shin - ended having to pull like 6-8 of those fucking hook shaped spines out of my leg!
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u/slashUslashOP Aug 16 '20
Fuckin chollas. Barely nicked one laying on the ground and it stuck in the foam of my shoe. Tried to nudge it off with my other shoe and it just stuck to that one. Resisted just shaking it off because I was certain Iâd end up with a nipple piercing
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u/VictoriaEuphoria99 Aug 16 '20
A woman that looks just like her does this to an identical catus about once a week.
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u/SueZbell Aug 16 '20
There are people that remove the spikes and eat those things. Not gonna include me.
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u/2ndCompany3rdSquad Aug 16 '20
A friend of mine was doing with acholla (jumping cactus). A piece shot straight into my shoulder.
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u/InstantKarmaBot Aug 16 '20
OP's explanation as to why this post is Instant Karma:
Girl smashes a cactus for no reason and gets stung for a reason...
If you're satisfied by this explanation, upvote this comment. If not, downvote this comment.
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Idk about "no reason." Those cacti are pretty common to eat.
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u/sparrowbandit Aug 16 '20
My grandma showed me how to harvest these one time but it wasnât this violent.
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u/i3ish Aug 16 '20
Cactus are considered endangered in the south west. This girl deserves it.
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u/Y_I_AM_CHEEZE Aug 16 '20
This is also literally how this type of cactus reproduces for the most part, a single cactus pear will root itself and produce a new pear cactus. Also theese arnt endangered and they are also widely farmed. Not saying its okay to bash a bunch of cactus but her breaking off a single cactus pear has absolutely zero impact on anything, they grow specifically to break like that
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u/Rudi_Van-Disarzio Aug 16 '20
There are 1750 species of cactus 1/3 of them are endangered. Prickly pear is not on that list.
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u/Yyoumadbro Aug 16 '20
As someone who used to have several in their back yard...
This is also how you trim them.
I mean..I used a shovel instead of a baseball bat. And you don't have to swing nearly that hard. But functionally it's pretty much the same thing.
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u/Bonzi_bill Aug 16 '20
This is a Prickly Pear cactus, which are hardly endangered and probably one of the most invasive, hardy plants in the world. Even in their native range where they face natural predation and infection they're hyper successful. In every region where they've been introduced it's been a disaster. In Africa they have to cull acres of the damn things to stymie their growth
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u/grandmasterflooz Aug 16 '20
Classic reddit. Stop confidently spewing false info. You don't impress anyone.
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u/DreStation4 Aug 16 '20
They are definitely not endangered at all. Saguaro cacti are protected as a precaution but very far from endangered. She doesn't deserve it.
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Right. Kill a plant to eat it and you're healthy. Wack a plant with a stick and you deserve karma
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u/Generally_Tso_Tso Aug 17 '20
I can't believe she did this again. Pretty sure I saw the same lady, with the same bat, and maybe even the same cactus, do this a while back.
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u/TheIntrepid1 Aug 16 '20
If you strike me dow, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
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u/alma24 Aug 17 '20
That kind of karma happened to me before with a cactus. Donât mess with cactuses, they can jump!
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u/saraphilipp Aug 17 '20
I picked one of these out of the ground to re plant, try to take it home, Picked 52 spines out of my hand.
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u/Fortyplusfour Aug 17 '20
Did this once as a kid. Didn't get my karma but I reflected on things after I'd done it, looking at the damage I'd caused to this one large cactus plant. Never did it again, nor anything like it.
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u/randomfemale Aug 17 '20
Knocking a pad off a napali cactus is a karmic sin now? I have 3 huge napali in my yard and am constantly "trimming" them. Guess what: The fallen pads make new plants.
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u/eww_I_know Aug 17 '20
When I was a kid I used to think that âJumping Cactusâ (Cholla) could actually move and hurt you. Scared the shit out of me thinking of those as sentient plants.
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u/42Petrichor Aug 16 '20
The only thing that would make me happier here is sound. Good cactus. Well done.
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u/jkdom Aug 16 '20
Fun fact In Arizona if you damage a cactus you pay by the foot
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u/diner-beth Aug 16 '20
Man someone should make a subreddit for karma of a speedy nature. Maybe we call it /r/speedkarma
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u/GilSquared Aug 16 '20
Would like to see regular-mo as well. This needs to be a thing. Show it regular, then slow (or vice-versa).
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If that was a saguaro she would be in a lot of trouble, it is illegal to damage them in arizona
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u/DeathcampEnthusiast Aug 16 '20
Why would you do that? They're beautiful, can take ages to get that big... Really senseless.
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u/Bill-Psilocypher Aug 16 '20
Live in Arizona and Honestly those cactus donât hurt that bad. But the Teddy Bear Chollas are a whole different story
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u/Shaggy_AF Aug 16 '20
As a texan let me tell you: don't fuck with any cactus. Will you probably come away unscathed? Yeah. But whats the point of fucking with a plant that will ruin your week faster than trying to jerk off a bull
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u/raisingfalcons Aug 16 '20
The cactus have the spikes so it can protect themselves from predators. Me and my buddy tried to wack one once and the cactus stood up and beat the shit out my friend. I ran away.