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Those canines are “primarily used to chew up wood and other tough foods” as per one of the articles, but male adult camels may also use those to bite opponents when fighting with each other for territory / mates.
“Someone once described them as a Sarlacc pit from Star Wars” … definitely a fitting description.
Here is a video of an angry camels open mounth and unclipped teeth; https://www.youtube.com/shorts/whsdxuAy37Y … it is VERY ugly tho, view at your own discretion.
Honestly that they have 4 large canini in total is by far the least interesting part about the anatomy of a camels mouth. Look at the unique rough roof of the mouth and look how they casually eat cactus. Their mouth is like a heavy leather bag filled with bricks mashing anything that gets between them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9NC2saE5MbQ&pp=ygUMY2FtZWwgY2FjdHVz
Cacti: Evolution gave us needles to protect us from being eaten!
Camels: haha eating needles go brrrrr
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So satisfying
cronch cronch cronch
I’ve seen camels eat cacti before, but it doesn’t make it easier to watch them do it. They don’t seem to mind much though. Perhaps it’s like a chili or wasabi to them.
Now I’m hungry. It looks delicious.
It’s the quenchiest.
And here I am worried about picking a prickly pear from the cactus in the front yard.
They have that weird throat bag that they cough up too, when they’re looking to fuc.
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I would imagine that aliens would look at us the same way when it comes to spicy food.
Human: eats a Death Pepper
Alien: “Why would you eat a food whose name has death in it and gives you chemical burns?”
Human: “The citrus hints are SO YUMMY!”
Alien: shocked pikachu face
if the camel bit me and I punched him, how long will it take it for lemmy.world to receive its next DDoS attack?
I saw a clip of some guy punching a camel in the head, trying to get it to move (or something).
The camel finally snapped at him, got hold of an arm or shoulder, and just ragdolled him, eventually settling in to rip chunks off while pinning his torso.
Saw it too. Nice reference
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I think there is also the molars and general jaw shape to consider. Carnivores are not just identified by their fangs, they have generally a different structure and layout of their jaws that is made to lock into a prey animal or tear out pieces of flesh.
In contrast, many herbivores have teeth laid out to grind down plant matter (think cows or goats) and their mouths are laid out to chew off vegetation with very articulated lips to assist. Even if these camels have pointy fangs, the rest of their mouth would indicate they eat primarily plants.
They do have dentals that are extremely specialized for eating vegetation that really doesn’t want to be eaten. The large canini are only a trait of males from which we could very reasonably determine that they’re used for intraspecific fights if we have both male and female fossils available.
Actually I would consider the anatomy of a camels skull one of the easiest to determine the habits of the species off due to its very specific adaptions.We can determine that they live in an area with rough vegetation which are to that degree only arid climate zones. That requires high mobility to scan the area for scarce vegetation and even scarcer water sources. You’d probably also assume they move in larger groups if fighting is so relevant for males that huge fangs turned into a selected trait. From that alone you can make many assumptions that probably align with the actual lifestyle of those animals.
That’s actually a good question. I’m no dental expert mind you, but looking at the highly different diets some species have even compared to close relatives, I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened to extinct species as well. I mean, look at bears for example - grizzly, polar bear, brown bear … panda. Suddenly there is a vegan in the group, but with the same type of carnivore teeth.
Huh. I guess the camel mouth pictures I saw before have all their teeth extracted or something? Second pic absolutely looked like that of a large cat pic to the untrained eye (mine)
Fron what I’ve read, there are differences in breeds (alpacas for example have very small canines compared to other species), females have smaller canines than males (on average), and they’re also usually removed / clipped for domesticated camelids (example with an alpaca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXSrIUkFNg)
Thanks for the link, those teeth got out faster than expected. I was kinda expecting the alpaca to go murder mode with how the removal was done.
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Uhh… Do we do good bot/bad bot here?
Sure, why not?
Yep, fake as hell
Nope, there are different types of camel, not all of them have canines, but some do. Also females have smaller ones than males.
Just do an image search of camel teeth and you’ll find lots with large fighting canines.
That’s exactly what I did though: it was mostly flat teeth.
And lots of upper canines. If you’re only looking at the lower teeth you won’t see them.
Crikey! Oid better stick me thumb in it!
I saw a video of a camel murdering a guy like a rag doll after the dude punched the camel. This is just another item tucked away in the " don’t fuck with camels" folder.
Super surprising!
Technically a good boi then.
PS: bonus video to show that canines are not the strangest thing about a camel’s mouth: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9NC2saE5MbQ …it actually seems to love munching on spiny things, look at him go 😍 😱
I’m more interested in its gums, which look like they belong in a sarlacc pit.
Fascinating! Llamas don’t seem to have this kind of teeth. Wonder why.
Because it really whips the Llama’s ass
Who tf just read this comment out loud?? I clearly heard it!
its tongue, roof of mouth and back of throat all look uniquely tough. There is a lot of evolution going on here
One of many reasons why “Human teeth look like horse teeth, that’s why we should be vegan” is a dumb argument
except the argument is usually that we have canines, therefore we must eat meat.
I know, but vegan extremists have often pointed out that because our teeth are shaped more like a horse’s than a lions, that we must be herbivores. Which is fucking stupid for several reasons.
One of them being that horses are opportunistic meat eaters and will eat meat when given the chance, they just merely aren’t aggressive or combat suited enough to hunt for it themselves.
Another being as you said, we have canines.
Vegan extremists, you say? What other views do these extreme individuals hold?
I’m guessing it’s not that we should be murdering humans for any reason.
Basically the people who say that if you use any Animal product for any reason, then you basically are no better than the people who did the Holocaust. No this isn’t an exaggeration.
The kind of people who compare the Civil Rights Movement to the conditions to which pigs live in, and wonder why people think they are racist.
That first one most certainly does sound like an exaggeration, or at least an outlier. And in the context of this discussion it implies a false equivalence that anyone who thinks that our teeth look more like an herbivore’s than an omnivore or carnivore’s and takes from that that we should eat more vegetables, also thinks that you’re as bad as hitler or a nazis for eating meat.
But maybe one of us is misunderstanding. I certainly do think that the millions of animals being killed without a justified reason is a type of Holocaust. Sure, it’s not humans, but I think it’s a fair conclusion to come to. Regardless of if you’d call it that, can you see how all of this unnecessary death and torture is incredibly unethical? It doesn’t seem extreme to me if that’s what these vegans are saying.
Secondly, do you not think there is a similarity between fighting for the civil rights of humans and fighting for the rights of animals? I don’t think that’s a racist statement at all, and you know what? I think anyone who says it is racist is either actively trying to undermine the argument with adhominem or is simply too dumb to realize that’s what the person they heard say it originally was trying to do.
Cite your sources.
