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After looking at [link] I couldn't resist making a Porty version
He's a viperine water snake (Natrix maura)
Despite the name he's not an actual viper, although he looks and acts like one when on land. In the water he acts and hunts like a grass snake
The viperine snakes are great swimmers and can stay submerged up to 15 minutes. And although they're not poisonous, they can hiss loudly and flatten their heads to mimic a viper, discouraging predators
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*O* awesomemente awesome! (Y) * le portuguΓͺs aldrabado~*
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* repara* =A= afff.... aldrabei foi o inglΓͺs * corrige*
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Uhh... I feel dumb, but he's Portugal right?
It looks awesome ^^
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Yes, it's him ^^
Thanks XD
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I thought it was a TF too, at first...
It looks uncomfortable for him, though...the water or the nudity, both at once.
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I think he's more worried about predators at the moment
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Mrm, yeah.
(I always wonder...nagas and taurs seem to not be able to eat enough to keep their bodily functions moving.)
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A horse spends most of its time eating enough to feed its big-ass frame, and it has a neck and face adapted to eating grass. A centaur has more bodily mass than a horse, with the giant torso and etc, twice as much intestine, and thus more to feed, but the head is that of an omnivorous and comparatively eating-little human. How on earth they can shovel enough food into themselves to keep moving is a mystery to me... Or even what centaurs eat. No myth seems to acknowledge this... Fruits and meats, it's hinted?
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That's a pretty good question
Considering some bigger animals still manage to find enough food and strive, the type of environment they live in would be very important. If their intestines are well adapted to absorb nutrients efficiently, there might be a chance it could work
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That makes sense. Gotta be some way, right?
You remember those old timey bugs that were five feet tall because the air was packed with oxygen? There could be an equivalent of that in the nutrition. (Of course, this means their food needs lot of roughage...)
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Comparing to the animals in Africa, it should be too hard to establish an environment they could thrive
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Well, it was overgrazing in exactly that manner that pretty much created the sahara desert...
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Actually no, it was a climacteric shift that made Africa drier and created the savannas. We too are a byproduct of that shift
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That was how it started, yes, but it was overgrazing that spread the desert sands and shit so far south.
Same way I'm not blaming Dubstep on the guy who first messed around with synths... but on the guys who liked and reposted it.
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I don't know much about that. What's your source?
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Pretty much [link] , [link] , Larry Gonick, my middle and high school geography teachers...take your pick, but the cows basically ate the sahel.
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Very interesting, but it sounds too recent to explain the growth and development of the Sahara desert to its current size
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The Sahara desert started as just a run of the mill desert, as a lot of places at that latitude tend to be (because the equator sucks all the rain clouds away from it, thanks to the rotating earth and everything). It was overgrazing and water diversion that made it GROW, not created it.
They always grow a lot faster than you'd think... some areas of America's midwest that have been overdrained for crop irrigation are experiencing desertification at the rate of miles a week. Sand blows into the soil, the soil dries out, it keeps going and going...
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I've heard another factor was the winds and the lack of trees to keep the soil from being dragged away. We would suffer the same here too if it wasn't for the forest a king planted centuries ago and the laws forbidding people to step on the dune plants
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That was a much bigger part of it than I make it out to be.
There's laws like that on Michigan's dunes...
Was it Plato or someone who had that quote about how 'a good society is one where people plant trees they'll never sleep in the shade of?'
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I never heard that quote, so I don't know
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It's a good quote, anyways...
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More like an alternate universe
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Ele Γ© absolutamente adorΓ‘vel x3
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Fizeste um optimo trabalho! lol *thumbs up*
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