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Penny Arcade - Comic - Lady Magala
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Lady Magala
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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On the flipside, species that don't fight each other all that often are probably not the best ones to make weapons out of simply because they have no evolutionary pressure to develop natural weapons that are useful against each other, or else their weapons might just be unwieldy (what parts of a hippo could you use to fight another hippo?).
It's called leather when it's a whip.
That only goes for real life, though. In fantasy settings, animals tend to evolve natural weapons that both they and their potential prey either resist or are completely immune to. This is nature's way of ensuring that they'll be desperate enough to be willing to attack passing adventurers.
I think the 1,800 psi bite force (second only to the saltwater croc) might have a tiny bit to do with how effective those teeth are.
Good luck with your pointy stick.
They're also coming at you at 30 mph with a ton and a half of solid muscle behind them. Maybe mount your pointy stick on the front of a truck.
Hippo jousting
Oh, i'm not saying the teeth on its own will lend you the same efficiency as a hippo. Monsters parts are generally transformed, cut, sharpened to make weapons. And then needs to be weilded by a hunter with the required super strenght. I'm just saying that the shape of a hippo teeth is more suitable to a blade than a hammer. Alternatively, the right combinations of skull bones and femur , shoulder blades could probably be used to make a morpho axe.
Enh, it's never going to be as good as a sharpened piece of forged metal. Nature does the best it can with what it has.