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A Picture I took in October of a Toxodon Skeliton at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto. Toxodon was from a group of basal herbivorous mammals from South America that have no modern relatives. They all died out during the Great American Biotic Interchange when animals from North America came to South America and began to out compete the South American Mammals into extinction.Related content
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Yes, fair enough, are you just pointing that, or trying to correct me about something?
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Oh, so are you trying to imply that I am incorrect in my statement that it was the Great American Biotic Interchange that did in the Toxodon? I guess it was the exception to the fate of most other Notoungulaes, as going over the articles on it again, it seems Toxodon itself survived long enough to be done in by human hunting, not competition or predation from North American animals. But you weren't being very clear on you answers. You really need to work on clarifying our answers so people can understand you, as otherwise you come off as confusing, or just plain rude, and others will likely not be so understanding.
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Yeah, I should. I can be a know-it-all at times
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It's not that you were being a 'Know it all', that was correct information, and I was making an incorrect statement, so you were right to point it out. However, you should just clarify your answers, add more details, and not have to rely on the reader to derive context, otherwise you will come off as confusing or rude. Like for this, you could have said "I think you are wrong in the statement that the Toxodonts died off in the Great American Interchange, they survived into the end of the Pleistocene, after the effects of the Interchange" or something to that matter. It's very vague and confusing otherwise, and we're lucky I understood what you meant, or I would have just seemed like you said a random statement for the heck of it, and THEN you would have seemed as just a Noisy Know-It-All.
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