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My entirely sober ass thought the same thing, even before I saw the caption.
(Mastodon, by default, crops the picture to 16:9 from the center. The caption on top is not visible in this crop, and can only be seen when I click the picture to show it in its entirety.)
one of my linguistics professors wrote an entire peer-reviewed paper about how language grew out of a cooperative effort to kill mastodons
So we've come full circle.
i never actually read my prof's paper, but i read the abstract. the basic idea is that you need a fully developed language to coordinate the slaying and dismembering of a mammoth
by "fully developed" i just mean any language spoken within the last 100,000 years.
I don't know why, but seeing you comment on your comments to further edify and clarify is oddly satisfying. Hit us with some more of those facts!
Mastodon is based for that, the caption is shit