Dave Hone
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So another six yards high.
And then seven-ish metric tons.
What's that?
About eight and a half short tons.
So a colleague of mine, Tom Holtz, described them as an orca on land.
But that's it.
It is a killer whale-sized animal.
but on legs on land.
And those are massive predators.
So you're looking at something absolutely colossal.
And I think that is what will stun you.
I think people don't realize how big a lot of animals are, which sounds weird.
But I used to work in a few zoos and something I think you notice is when you go and see things like elephants or giraffes,
Rhinos, everything's built to the scale of the animal.
The elephant house is huge.
The doors are huge.
The bars are huge.
The food is huge.
And so you don't see them in the context of something that you have a good frame of reference for.
And I learned this, yeah, when I was at London Zoo and...