Credit: Dan Soder on the Your Mom’s House podcast

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    2 years ago

    Horses are known to eat small animals. There’s a video floating around of a horse eating a chick (baby chicken).

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      2 years ago

      So many people seem to not realize this.

      Most animals will eat whatever they can get in their mouth. They may be specialized for some things, but it’s not like koalas won’t eat bugs.

      Especially for, like, typical, common animals. My ducks eat anything. It’s especially fun when one of them catches a tiny snake.

      People also seem to ask me what I feed them a lot and then get confused when I tell them I feed them duck food, as if they don’t feed their dogs dog food and their cats cat food.

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    2 years ago

    Since they would be predators, their eyes would be positioned on the front of their skulls instead of the sides for better stereoscopic vision, and they would likely have sharp incisor teeth. Those 2 things alone are pretty creepy.

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      2 years ago

      Yes, super scary. And another commenter mentioned they would also have paws with claws and legs more like big cats. Oh man

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    2 years ago

    Watch LotR to see ridden carnivores.
    I don’t know, how would the world be different, but to spark your fantasy, imagine horses being herbivores, but turn carnivorous at every conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn (~ every 20 years).

  • SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I read that as cannibals imao. I would imagine in a world like that there would be shows where horses would face each other to the death in a battle and eat the loser in front of everyone.

    • canthidium@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 years ago

      You reminded me of a standup show by Anthony Clark (He was the main on the show, Yes, Dear) where he talked about growing up on a farm and always thought about feeding the cows a hamburger, lol.