Sports GOATS

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Smarter than humans?  No.  But these other species are not dumb at all.  And you have indirectly disparaged most of our marine mammals, primates, elephants, octopuses, and a plethora of other species.  Anyone who thinks 🐙 are dumb have no fking idea what they're talking about.

Whoosh

[lawdog77]

Uhhh....no.  This is beyond ridiculous and prejudicial.  Do you really think Chimpanzees and other primates, elephants, whales, octopuses, dogs, cats, etc, are dumb?  This is literally the stupidest thing I've ever read.

compared to humans, yes

[tower912]

Yeah, but the animals are smart enough to stay off of social media.   

[lawdog77]

Yeah, but the animals are smart enough to stay off of social media.

Are you sure?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4948650/Twitter-reveals-successful-animal-stars.html

[warriorchick]

The obvious choice for baseball:

[WhiteTrash]

The obvious choice for baseball:

I loved that GOAT.

<sox fan here>

[MuggsyB]

compared to humans, yes

We have no idea how to measure the intelligence of many of our tremendous animals.  And "smart" is highly nuanced within the entire human race.   Having different brain capacities than humans doesn't make other animals "dumb"  by any stretch.  That's an asinine contention, filled with incredible arrogance, and complete disrespect. 

Were the Elephants near Chiang Mai Thailand stupid for climbing up the mountains before that massive tsunami hit?  Were the humans smart for not following them uphill?  Stop disparaging and mocking these phenomenal creatures.  WTF makes us so special?  Our rapacity and selfishness is quite frankly awful and disgusting. 

[Spotcheck Billy]

We have no idea how to measure the intelligence of many of our tremendous animals.  And "smart" is highly nuanced within the entire human race.   Having different brain capacities than humans doesn't make other animals "dumb"  by any stretch.  That's an asinine contention, filled with incredible arrogance, and complete disrespect. 

Were the Elephants near Chiang Mai Thailand stupid for climbing up the mountains before that massive tsunami hit?  Were the humans smart for not following them uphill?  Stop disparaging and mocking these phenomenal creatures.  WTF makes us so special?  Our rapacity and selfishness is quite frankly awful and disgusting. 

That was only 1 elephant from the stories found, so were the others too dumb to follow?

[lawdog77]

We have no idea how to measure the intelligence of many of our tremendous animals.  And "smart" is highly nuanced within the entire human race.   Having different brain capacities than humans doesn't make other animals "dumb"  by any stretch.  That's an asinine contention, filled with incredible arrogance, and complete disrespect. 

Were the Elephants near Chiang Mai Thailand stupid for climbing up the mountains before that massive tsunami hit?  Were the humans smart for not following them uphill?  Stop disparaging and mocking these phenomenal creatures.  WTF makes us so special?  Our rapacity and selfishness is quite frankly awful and disgusting.

So, do you only eat the dumb animals?

[MuggsyB]

So, do you only eat the dumb animals?

I've discussed this ad nauseum and explained that I'm not a vegetarian.  Nevertheless lawdog we are unfairly attacking members of the animal kingdom here and it's not right.   

[MuggsyB]

That was only 1 elephant from the stories found, so were the others too dumb to follow?

No.  Not according to my contacts at two elephant sanctuaries there.  There were a number of eyewitness accounts that many of them went uphill and sought higher ground. 

[MuggsyB]

S-Billy,  I have been privileged to spend some time with both Asian and African Elephants.  They are highly intelligent and deserve our utmost respect. 

[Uncle Rico]

S-Billy,  I have been privileged to spend some time with both Asian and African Elephants.  They are highly intelligent and deserve our utmost respect.

They could probably recruit better than Shaka

[Hards Alumni]

We're not "better distance runners" and by a longshot.  Do you have any idea what Pronghorn would run a marathon in?  And why does it have to be on a human circular track?  Pronghorns can run about 47mph for several hours.  Case closed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

We're terrifying animals.

[withoutbias]

We're talking the greatest athletes of all time and someone had to ask "What about animals?  How do they compare?"

Air Bud is the only animal I've seen make a shot on a 10 foot hoop.  So to answer the question, they phucking suck.

Good god how weird do you have to be to derail a thread about the best athletes in sports and ask why people are disrespecting the rhinoceros or whatever other animal might be stronger than a human?

[warriorchick]

Air Bud is the only animal I've seen make a shot on a 10 foot hoop.  So to answer the question, they phucking suck.

I will see your basketball-shooting dog and raise you a field-goal-kicking mule.


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[WhiteTrash]

S-Billy,  I have been privileged to spend some time with both Asian and African Elephants.  They are highly intelligent and deserve our utmost respect.

I am in favor of affirmative action for pachyderms at the Ivy League schools. Dolphin and chimpanzee legacy admissions are unfair.