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Plus if there is anything the human vision system is optimized for it would be seeing and assessing an unknown large mammal.
by lanstin 9y ago
Plus if there is anything the human vision system is optimized for it would be seeing and assessing an unknown large mammal.
- mewse 9y agoHistory (and personal experience) shows pretty clearly that humans are really bad at predicting the movements of kangaroos, though. (I've never been in a car that hit one, but have had some close calls) The things seem to be able to effortlessly execute 90 degree turns between hops, at speed. Safety lesson: if you see kangaroos travelling alongside the road you're driving on, slow way down so you can execute an emergency stop, if needed; they're always only one hop from suddenly being right in front of you. Safety lesson 2: there is always another kangaroo. If you see a kangaroo bound across the road ahead of you, slow way down; there's likely to be another kangaroo a very short distance behind it. (And safety lesson 2 recurses and also applies to that second kangaroo; there is likely a third kangaroo just far enough behind it that you'll think there's no third kangaroo. And so on.)
- chris_wot 9y agoAnother is - don't let your dogs near a kangaroo around a body of water. The kangaroo hops into the water, the dog follows and the kangaroo holds it under and drowns it.