Is there a carnivore with hooves?

[mangeorge]

@garygnu

Between this and the “Humans as Prey” thread, I’m beginning to welcome our new ungulate overloards.
But then I remember my user name…

While carnivore does not equal predator, I would expect hooves be a hinderance to predation. While in pursuit, a predator has to change direction in reaction to the fleeing prey. Hooves would not be my first choice of footwear for this. And while hooves can cause injury, claws have advantages of fine manipulation and the direction of a claw strike is inward, drawing the prey towards the predator. A hoof strike pushes away.

As far as pursuit goes, prey animals do quite well evading the predator’s claws, escaping far more often than not. That explains why so many hunters will scavenge as often as possible. Our own ancestors should be called Scavenger/gatherers, I figure. That’s exactly what we are. right?
You’re right on, though, about the claws bringing down prey once the predator catches up.

[Chronos]

And when was the last time Satan ate anyone? I’m sure he outsources for that, hard to be suave and debonair when you’re munching a fellow.

Nearly two thousand years ago, and he still hasn’t managed to swallow Judas yet. Remarkably, his other two known meals, Brutus and Cassius, were only a few decades before that one.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@Chronos

Nearly two thousand years ago, and he still hasn’t managed to swallow Judas yet. Remarkably, his other two known meals, Brutus and Cassius, were only a few decades before that one.

I’m told that Hitler goes well with Pizza.

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[danceswithcats]

@cmyk

Satan?

Tossup between him and my ex.

[maggenpye]

@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor

I’m told that Hitler goes well with Pizza.
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/3-0&fp=46d28f8c01fd03b0&ei=1gnSRsa8IZigavn21NQN&url=http%3A//www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0%2C1518%2C501792%2C00.html&cid=1119857714

Just avert your eyes from the inflammatory billboards for a moment, see that hill? Frodo lived there. Around this corner over …there! Gandalf sat upon the peerless Shadowfax during the battle of…

Good pizza though, *damned *good!

As for the Jackalopes!? So close to a woosh.

[Max_Torque]

@cmyk

My gameroom is full of jackalope heads i’ve hunted and killed myself.

You’re way ahead of me. Every time I take my friends jackalope hunting, all we ever see are does.

[Rocketeer]

@Shagnasty

…An antelope/hare cross is imposing in stature but they can’t eat so much as a field mice even if they wanted too although the buckteeth can cause nasty damage to a hand or crotch if attention is allowed to wonder even for a second.

I think it’s the “or crotch” in this sentence that makes it so hilarious to me.

[cmyk]

@Max Torque

You’re way ahead of me. Every time I take my friends jackalope hunting, all we ever see are does.

Niiiice.

[Sailboat]

@cmyk

Hey, if the jackrabbits can breed with antelope, why not humans? A Jackaman? Basically a rabbit with opposable thumbs.

Those things get pretty big, and they’re dangerous as hell. Here’s a shot of a particularly huge Jackaman.

Huge Jackaman in natural habitat

Sailboat

[mangeorge]

@Max Torque

You’re way ahead of me. Every time I take my friends jackalope hunting, all we ever see are does.

Are those does in any danger, as are the ewes on a midwestern sheep ranch?

[Inigo_Montoya]

@Sailboat

Those things get pretty big, and they’re dangerous as hell. Here’s a shot of a particularly huge Jackaman.

Looks more like a wolverine to me.

[THespos]

I can’t believe no one has suggested Dick Cheney yet.

[Arnold_Winkelried]

I remembered seeing these guys at the Los Angeles Zoo who supposedly can eat meat sometimes. No cite from the zoo, but here’s wikipedia:

Common duiker

The Common Duiker, Sylvicapra grimmia, also known as the Gray or Bush Duiker, is a small antelope with small horns found in west, central, east, and southern Africa … The common duiker has a wide diet; beyond herbivorous browsing for leaves, flowers, fruits and tubers, they will also eat insects, frogs, small birds and mammals and even carrion.

[Iggins]

It all depends on how they’re fed:

The Man Eating Cow

[cmyk]

@Sailboat

Those things get pretty big, and they’re dangerous as hell. Here’s a shot of a particularly huge Jackaman.

Huge Jackaman in natural habitat

Sailboat

Niiiice.

[Love_Rhombus]

@Arnold Winkelried

I remembered seeing these guys at the Los Angeles Zoo who supposedly can eat meat sometimes. No cite from the zoo, but here’s wikipedia:

Common duiker - Wikipedia

YES! That was it. You get 500 points! Danke!

[Mike_Fun]

As most anti-vegetatians will jump at the chance to tell you, all grazers relish the bugs and such in the plant matter they eat.

I’ve never heard of this before and quite frankly, I’m impressed. What kind of relish do they use, pickle? I’m personally partial to Vidalia relish. Do they make and can their own, or acquire it elsewhere?

[mangeorge]

@Mike Fun

I’ve never heard of this before and quite frankly, I’m impressed. What kind of relish do they use, pickle? I’m personally partial to Vidalia relish. Do they make and can their own, or acquire it elsewhere?

Ha ha.
Have you ever heard of the verb form of “relish”?
You almost get a :rolleyes: , But I know you’re being a mr. smarty-pants.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@maggenpye

Just avert your eyes from the inflammatory billboards for a moment, see that hill? Frodo lived there. Around this corner over …there! Gandalf sat upon the peerless Shadowfax during the battle of…

Good pizza though, *damned *good!

As for the Jackalopes!? So close to a woosh.

MMMMM…Pizza, with Hobbit sausage! Them’s good eatin’!

[Mike_Fun]

My silly joke is stolen from the Cecil article “Are humans meat eaters or vegetarians by nature?” which is linked to here:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_087.html