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[–] simple@piefed.social 55 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

whoever will stop this massive armadillo kaiju trampling over the united states?

Wouldnt make it any worse than it already is. Maybe it will unite the idiots again.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Will nobody rid me of this massive armadillo kaiju?

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Positively turbulent

[–] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

No one. Let it do the work, it's needed.

[–] rami@ani.social 21 points 2 weeks ago

We just find out how they were able to breach the impenetrable walls of swine.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Armadillos! ...

... versus! ...

Feral Hogs!

F I G H T !

[–] HeadyBroccoli@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

If that’s what it was supposed to look like in 2023 I wonder what the actual distribution was that year.

Found info from previous years

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't know, but I do suspect 'big angry bacon' is soon gonna be on a lot more people's menus, lol.

[–] HeadyBroccoli@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Love me some wild boar!

My inner tarheel is screaming the solution to this problem. We'll have the mother of all pig pickens!

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

As someone descended from lowland Scots, I will get the spears. Just need some hounds and we'll have bacon.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The fact that the human side has gone radio silent on the war tells you all you need to know. Pray to whatever god you observe. It's going to get bleak.

[–] BobbyGasoline@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I,for one, welcome our new feral pig overlords.

[–] HeadyBroccoli@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I actually know quite a few people that participate in hog culling, and I know in my surrounding area (Californian suburb) there are a bunch of boar cages set up to trap them, so I wouldn’t really say it’s radio silent at all, perhaps maybe a bit more quiet in your area though.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hogs no diff that and then learn enough tool use to take the akimbo AR-15s from our corpses

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

mild confusion, followed by"YEEHAW!!", followed by excited aerial gunfire

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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ICE is going to take care of it

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago

Leprosy is back on the menu, baby

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t worry too much; they don’t have thumbs, so flying a jet may turn into an unexpected challenge hehehe.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmm… do you actually need thumbs to fly a modern commercial jet?

[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would say yes, in order to have a sufficient grip on the stick/yoke

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Cookie has a point though… I’m really worried now.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Musk wants to install his neuralink thing in them so they can fly that way. No thumbs needed.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

You would need the brain wiring side of that installed

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Southern Florida shows us that the only way to defeat them is with alligators.

"We know how to take them out, General. Spread the word."

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Um, no, that's just the part of Florida that the animals can tell will be under water soon.

Well, ok yeah, alligators would then be a problem.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reminder: do not eat those.

You've been warned.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's how you get leprosy. But I mean... It would be pretty badass to get a biblical diesease.

[–] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

There is exactly one and it is that giant one in the picture. He is surveying new potential lands to extend his power.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Possum on the half shell. Dillo power!

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Teenage Mutant Arma-dillos

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anywhere but the south tip of florida apparently

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Professionals have standards, they saw Florida and said no thanks.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yo I love armadillos and I rarely see them, but this map shows them just barely where I live. I hope to see one here soon, I'm sure the first one I see will be on the road, but then hopefully alive soon too :)

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I moved to Armadillo territory 10 years ago and sadly I've never seen one alive, only roadkill confirming their presence. The tarantula are the same way. We're just not in the places they frolic most of the time, and if we are, they hide.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe you'll get to see both... one right after the other.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm trying to figure out how they're supposed to get to Los Angeles without crossing through San Diego. I guess hop a plane to LAX and go to Disneyland?

Edit: Urgh, I just realized there's probably some evil bastards out there who'd smuggle armadillo babies in their pants.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love the word aviation. Makes it feel like you can nounify other animal types. Like mammation. Or you could go into subgroups, like cervidation, chiropteration, monotremation, etc.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Dojan@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Crustation? Or maybe crustaceation? A process of periodical molting. Or maybe the act of using a claw-like implement?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I've seen them very rarely in metro Atlanta.

Which means they've reached Hartsfield International Airport, and we're all even more screwed.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Armadillos in Boston

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Soon we will rule the Tri-State Area!!!

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As an invasive species what harm do they cause?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is a message from big boar to distract you from who's really taking over.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkJemc4T5NYZRH_2kTRBKeYVf6mmx0lQK

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Armadillhole.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm calling it now: the 9-banded armadillo will be adopted as Canada's mascot in the next decade, after they become the main species in the Canadian deserts.

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