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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 5, 2024 1:27:06 GMT 5
I made a similar topic on Twitter, but I wanted to hear what any of you think. What are some matchups in the AvA community you've seen that honestly should not be debated because they're so obvious or pointless to discuss?
For me they include:
- Lion vs tiger (they're pretty much the same animal; whoever's bigger wins, if they're the same size it will go either way)
- Cougar vs leopard (more or less the same reason as above)
- Gorilla vs lion/tiger/bear
- T. rex vs bush elephant (giant macropredatory theropod vs proboscidean at parity in general)
- T. rex vs Spinosaurus
- Elephant vs rhino (to be fair, this is mostly a pop culture thing)
- Orca vs great white shark (again, mostly a pop culture thing)
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Post by Supercommunist on Jun 5, 2024 1:54:34 GMT 5
Female GWS vs saltwater crocodile, Utahraptor vs tiger/lion, and Polar bear vs tiger/lion are stand out mismatches.
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Post by Exalt on Jun 5, 2024 4:10:38 GMT 5
Female GWS vs saltwater crocodile, Utahraptor vs tiger/lion, and Polar bear vs tiger/lion are stand out mismatches. Can I ask why that first one is a mismatch? |
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Post by Supercommunist on Jun 5, 2024 4:51:17 GMT 5
Female GWS vs saltwater crocodile, Utahraptor vs tiger/lion, and Polar bear vs tiger/lion are stand out mismatches. Can I ask why that first one is a mismatch? It's a size mismatch. The biggest male crocodiles are about 2000 ibs. The biggest female GWS are 4,000 to 5,000 pounds and the latter are far more difficult to weigh since they are fully aquatic and are rarer. |
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Post by Exalt on Jun 5, 2024 5:42:00 GMT 5
I guess I should have dug deeper to get accurate results.
This reminds me, I asked on here once how we would weigh supersize animals, I think?
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 5, 2024 6:30:22 GMT 5
I guess I should have dug deeper to get accurate results. This reminds me, I asked on here once how we would weigh supersize animals, I think? You can weigh them piecemeal. That is, cut it up, weigh different parts separately and add it up. It may not be perfect since blood is part of its weight and you'd inevitably lose lots of it as you chop it into separate large pieces, but you can estimate how much of its weight would realistically be blood. More recently, though, a new technique where you can estimate an animal's body mass (especially whales) using aerial photographs has become a thing ( Christiansen et al., 2019). |
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Post by Exalt on Jun 5, 2024 6:57:24 GMT 5
How about for Sauropod estimations, then?
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Post by razor45dino on Jun 5, 2024 7:39:50 GMT 5
This technically isn't a mismatch, but I think people sorely overrate how much Edmontosaurus would "give a T.rex trouble", especially so considering a minute fraction of the individuals we have are actually bigger than T.rex anyway
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 8, 2024 0:11:07 GMT 5
I actually think even the large Edmontosaurus individuals were still vulnerable to predation by T. rex.
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Post by razor45dino on Jun 8, 2024 5:08:40 GMT 5
they definitely were, but many people assume that they represent the "norm" of the species when in reality they are a small fraction and worse we don't even know for sure if they really are that big because of how fragmentary they are.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 29, 2024 4:41:16 GMT 5
Any theropod vs bovine at parity matchup is rather laughable too in hindsight. Rhinos I feel are a bit better of a matchup, but even then I don't see any reason to favor them more often than not either.
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