Dave Hone
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a potential meal because we know that animals that have never, animals have to learn stuff.
And so animals that have never encountered things before are often that they don't have a response because they don't know what their response should be.
No, absolutely nothing.
We would look very weird.
We would, we would look weird.
Yeah.
Um, so, you know, there's lots of really cool records of, um,
Particularly you've got down in Indonesia and stuff where you've got these insane volcanic spires and it leads to these tiny little valleys.
And people go in there and they go, yeah, the animals walk up to us.
They've never seen a human.
They don't know what it is.
So it might look at us and animals are fundamentally cautious.
It doesn't know if we're a threat.
So maybe it might just find us weird or in some way, shape or form off-putting.
And so we may not even be considered on the menu.
The other thing is we might be too small.
My suspicion is we're not.
So animals, carnivores typically take stuff that is much, much smaller than them, despite...
Basically, every dinosaur documentary movie ever shows T-Rex hunting an adult Triceratops, which is like the same size as it.
And every documentary, you've got to have lions taking down a wildebeest or even a buffalo.