![[0884] Stupid Animals](/comics/2017-05-08-0884-stupid-animals.png "[0884] Stupid Animals")
Our Sandra and Woo adventure game has just been released!
One night, Sandra and Woo get sucked into a medieval gaming world. Now they must find a way back home before it’s game over for them! Our classical point-and-click adventure comes with a playing time of more than 10 hours and a full voice-over!
- Caption: Clever animals.
- Alex: Alex wants to discuss Nietzsche’s concept of eternal recurrence… and a banana!
- Caption: Stupid animals.
- Jellyfish: Blubb.
- Caption: Very stupid animals.
- Theron: I’m Theron, apex predator of the whole state! And what are you, pipsqueak?
- Ruth: Very hungry!
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More like, just plain nuts.
Also, holy crap, I’m early!
R.I.P. Theron. You will not be missed.
Jerk went through my trash cans, got what he deserves.
Alternative last lines:
* “Armed!”
* “A size 2!” *starts marking out clothing patterns on the bear’s hide in tailors’ chalk*
* “About to handle this a lot better than Bun-Bun did in that early Sluggy Freelance strip. I wouldn’t leave a partially flayed bear alive, for a start…”
>:=)>
@ Greenwood Goat:
I love Sluggy Freelance.
So, who’s very stupid, the bear or Ruth?
Answer, the bear, why?
Because, a tiger could kill a human in a straight fight, yet humans are the major hunters of tigers, why? Tools, aka, weapons ( and occasionally a belief that our lives are more important than other animals).
Message, don’t mess with animals with weapons who show no fear.
I think that jellyfish just might be my Spirit Animal
I am looking forward to Linux version of the game released outside of Steam.
@ Blitz the Comic Guy:
Blubb blubb.
Dolphins: Overthrow the human-fish fish fish fish fish fish…”
Is this the first time we’ve ever seen a squirrel in this webcomic?…
@ TvTropesgotmehooked:
No, Ruth has been in these comics before, she hunts predators. She has a reputation for hunting them, it never spreads among the predators though, they never live to tell the tale.
@ badbloodkiller:
So, she’s the only squirrel in this webcomic then…
That poor, poor bear.
@ TvTropesgotmehooked:
No. Sid is also a squirrel.
@ OriginalName:
Is he a main character?…
Alternate line:
Hungry and you’re it!
TvTropesgotmehooked wrote:
Yes. Sometimes. He’s one of Woo’s friends.
Look to the right. See the tag cloud?
There are twelve pages of links to comics which contain Sid. Four just to pages containing links to eating Sid.
For the record bear steaks taste like a sweeter venison look like a darker lamb, and have to be cooked at least 145 F to kill off the bacteria.
@ SeanR:
But we haven’t seen him in ages…
Crestlinger wrote:
It’s best to eat it raw, like Ruth does. You need some bacteria to stay healthy.
Ruth must be stupid. She probably got torn in half after mocking the bear.
@ Henry Fisher:
*Gilligan cut to Ruth snoring on top of a bearskin rug*
That one kill that will help her for the next 3 three Winters.
@ Night-X:
Methinks she still has to feed the mountain lion cubs.
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2013/06/03/0487-psycho-squirrel/
Some of them too stupid to live. I give Theron the Darwin Award!
@ badbloodkiller:
She consider herself as Carnicore level 5 – only hunt down large predators, wich cause her become a living legend amogst the carnivores.
As soon as I saw the first panel, I wondered if that was Irene Pepperberg. For those who don’t know:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cO6XuVlcEO4
@ TvTropesgotmehooked:
No. Woo has a European squirrel friend. I just can’t remember his name right now. He’s sweet on Ruth, though. (The squirrel not Woo. LOL.)
Glenn wrote:
*COUGH COUGH* Yeah Sid is deefffiiinnnaaattteeelllyyyy just platonically sweet to Ruth, nothing else to the matter
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Thisguy wrote:
That’s actually patently false. Humans enjoy a unique position in nature due to their meat tasting and smelling distinctively worse than that of significantly faster and stronger prey, like deer or buffalo. Only a desperate and very hungry animal would attack a human.
So when humans hunt carnivores, they enjoy, first and foremost, the element of surprise. Few humans would actually dare take on a tiger with a knife. Or even try it with a gun, without doing it from a hiding spot or a helicopter. If you think humans do wild-west style face-to-face showdowns with tigers, you are gravely mistaken.
Of course, once an animal does become desperate enough to sink down to eating humans, all bets are off. When it’s the carnivore who has the element of surprise, they’re actually very talented in taking down the so-called “superior race”. You don’t even have to go as far as tigers and bears. Even dogs are deadly to humans, to the point of being used in wars, albeit with some caveats regarding identifying foes.
Goodbye, Theron. We hardly knew ya.
There’s a difference between ignorance and stupidity.
If Theron doesn’t start fleeing or begging for mercy after finding out who he is talking to then he is stupid.
Hope nobody was too attached to Theron!
Hi very hungry, I’m dad.
TvTropesgotmehooked wrote:
You have to cook bear to kill the parasites, not bacteria, same as pork. Trichinosis is NOT healthy.
@ Typeminer:
I was joking but yeah, nobody wants intestinal parasites.
Typeminer wrote:
Was going to say that myself. A single serving of under-cooked bear steak can infect you with a lethal level of Trichinosis, which there is no cure for.
Also, bear meat tastes differently depending on the species and what time of year it died (which affects diet). A black bear that’s been eating mostly berries and tubers is going to be decidedly better tasting than a brown bear that’s spent the last two weeks gorging itself on salmon.
SlugFiller wrote:
It has nothing to do with the smell or taste of human. Predators would eat humans just fine if they didn’t retaliate so hard. First off animals gauge mass by height, so usually they assume we are far bigger and heftier than we really are. Secondly our brains give us a huge advantage over animals. We have hunted and even tamed animals far more massive and dangerous than we are even from earliest times where weapons were improvised from rocks and sticks. That’s because we outsmart them. Predators learn from both their own experience and by seeing what happens to others (predators are often more intelligent than prey animals). That’s why people don’t tolerate man eaters, and deter large predator species through hunting and other measures. From the words of a hunter “kill a bad animal and the rest will learn”. Frankly even a rather dumb species like deer learn to avoid hunters and places where they are hunted.
M. Peach wrote:
Pretty much every wild animal that lives in a region where humans also live has an instinctive aversion to humans. This is because humans quickly killed and ate everything that didn’t. There’s a reason that Australia and the Americas quickly saw the extinction of many of their large mammals shortly after humans arrived. Mammoths, ground sloths, and diprotodons didn’t recognize humans as threats when they first appeared. The only large mammal that is an exception to this is the polar bear, because prey is scarce enough in its normal habitat that it regards everything that isn’t another polar bear as food (and it’s sometimes willing to make an exception there, too).
So, Alex wants to discuss… a banana?
@ Mechwarrior:
Yay, I started a long complex discussion!
@ Mykel Darren:
He asked WHAT Ruth was, not WHO she was.
Trichina die at lower temperatures than 145. The trick is to get the entire piece meat to the temperature of, I believe, 136 and that requires either a SouViide machine or cooking it conventionally to around 145. The old saw about cooking it to 180 is totally erroneous.
So then… I am clever, but occasionally turn stupid when tuna fish sandwiches are involved, I guess.
I thought Ruth was on a “Only Sick and Elderly” policy?
Or does this fall under the Darwinian Clause?
@ Psychronia:
No its under the he started it clause.
Unless there was an armament upgrade then I’m not entirely sure that Ruth can kill him quick enough.
@ ZmarSD:
What if you’re right and we never see Ruth again?
SlugFiller wrote:
Very few humans do or did. But not so small number of tigers was killed like this.
SlugFiller wrote:
Both wolves and humans are pack animals. Element of surprise is nice in case of individuals. I don’t think ANY animal is clever enough to attack armed group of humans in way ALL humans will be dead before they get out of surprise, and even if there would be some, humans could respond by using bigger group.
@ TvTropesgotmehooked:
Nah, she can eat him from the inside.
oledakaajel wrote:
LOL, that would be hilarious.