Questions tagged [primates]
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How effective would opium be at silencing primates like bonobos, chimpanzees, and howlers?
The setting is: a man obsessed with primates and addicted to opium is trapped in his house. Noise attracts monsters outside so he has to be as quiet as possible. His primates (bonobos, chimpanzees, ...
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Could a human-sized mammal evolve to run faster than a person can aim and shoot them at close range?
In the Jurassic Park novel, Muldoon claims the velociraptors run too fast for modern weapons to track and can outpace a vehicle over short distances. Needless to say, I doubt any animal could have ...
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What would the natural diet of Bigfoot be?
Assume for a moment that Bigfoot/Sasquatch was a real animal living in the temperate rainforests and to a lesser degree other areas of the Pacific Northwest. Something like the depiction in Max Brooks'...
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Anatomically Correct Yeti
This is a submission for the Anatomically Correct Series.
The Yeti/Abominable Snowman is a cryptid animal from British/Tibetan folklore. It is a large & bipedal apelike creature with white fur ...
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How much mass can a gorilla carry/move? [closed]
There is a primitive tribe in the setting whose riding animal and beast of burden is some form of large primate. The first non-fictional candidate for this in my mind were just plain-old gorillas, ...
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