In this day and age I’m always amazed and heartened to hear that there is enough wildlife left to be such a problem like this.
Meanwhile in Afghanistan…
You mean Antelopes can jump that high?
Advanced technology upgrade!
Is that a million antelopes, or a single 1 metre long, very strong amtelope?
Were the antelopes wearing Ukraine flags?
Climate change is changing the migration patterns of wildlife
With how things are going, Putin’s likely not going to see the end of his war.
Imagine this being one of your closing memories to a war you said would be done in 3 weeks.
three days, he said he’d take Kyiv in 72 hours.
And once again I find myself not knowing anything about Russia’s ecosystems. As the largest country on earth it should have an astonishing variety of nature, similar to the US.
But TV and cinema have taught me that Russia is grey everywhere with some grass and small frail trees scattered about and sometimes coniferous forests and snow.
As the largest country on earth it should have an astonishing variety of nature, similar to the US.
Russia is at a much higher latitude, which limits things. It’s mostly taiga and tundra, with the Great Steppe in the south. No deserts like the American Midwest or rain forests like the Pacific Northwest.
It’s peppered into the Planet earth series and I believe Our Planet as well. The Taiga in Russia is a massive and beautiful, untouched ecosystem.
Russia by and large doesn’t give a shit about its nature as long as it’s huge and can be exploited so it’s not like they’re producing many documentaries etc. about it.
This is a cool project, though: Re-creating megafauna habitat, turning tundra into steppe. And in true Russian fashion, in lieu of living mammoths running over trees they used a tank.
Surely antelopes roam in herds, not swarms? They’re not bees.
I think a swarm of antelopes sounds incredibly terrifying:
Just a mass hooves, fur, and antlers; can’t tell where one ends and the next begins; roaming across the land, leaving only destruction in its wake…
This whole thread is just so Lemmy it makes me laugh.
“swarm” here is a verb, not a noun. As in, “to swarm”.
“The sappers exploded their charges under the city walls, and the invader’s troops swarmed in through the gap.”
But as used in the headline, “…antelope swarm destroys…” the verb is “destroys,” not “swarm.”
I would understand that “swarm” here is used as a noun, destroy is the verb. The verb uses the third-person singular form (destroys) therefore the subject can’t be “1 million antelopes” (plural), but should be singular, like “one swarm of antelopes”.
No, it’s pretty obviously being used as a noun here.
can 1 million be considered a herd? a swarm of locusts can turn intoa plague. it can also refer to plague of field mice, or rabbits.
Okay, “swarming herds of antelopes” would satisfy me. Or “plague of a million antelopes.”
Maybe it’s just me, I feel like swarming is something you do with lots of legs and maybe some wings. And the ickiness of small bodies moving in waves, chittering and buzzing.
Thundering hooves and sharp horns feels like a wholly different terror.
Saiga Antelope look weird as hell:
Why not antelope Zoidberg?
That looks like the creation from a lazy star wars artist
Mean! I was just coming to comment how cute they are 😍
Awww, what a sweet baby. Thanks for sharing.
They look like a clay model of a cow except you dropped it on its nose.
Whatever floats your boat.
The double-barreled goatalope
Sawed-off can’t elope.
the nose allows them to filter out sand and dust in the deserts.
Perfect for the Siberian desert
Nice try but we’ve all read that Dr Seuss book.
Dear Russia,
You’re fucked.
Sincerely,
Australia.
At first I thought this was a 1 meter Ukrainian drone codenamed ‘antelope’ that was targeting crops.
Yeah, no, this one is mother nature throwing a curve ball at putin to tell him that russia is already hard to manage as is, without trying to invade neighbours and fucking with other countries.
I’m starting to understand why it always gets worse
This is not an invasion, they are eliminating the Nazi crops that have oppressed Russian-speaking people for far too long
Special antelope operation
Oh, the year was 1778
Freaking fascist flora!
Deer Russia,
‘Special antelope operation’
Fkn nazi antelope, goddamn.
Fascist fauna is what I was thinking
Goddam bootleg antelope shit.
