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[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 85 points 9 months ago (2 children)

🐟 β€”"ambulancia"

🦣 β€” "ambulance"

πŸ¦– β€” "KRANKENWAGEN!"

[–] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 35 points 9 months ago (5 children)
[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

The thing I dislike about this is that Schmetterling actually sounds the most sweet out of the languages used (from the video probably being referenced), if you say it normally.

[–] tslnox@reddthat.com 6 points 9 months ago

KUGELSCHREIBER!

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago

Funny thing is that the "Schmetter" is a product when making butter. So the butterfly and Schmetterling share the same naming origin

[–] knorke3@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Das schmettert schon hart...

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Ananas

Ananas

PiNeApPlE

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 66 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Random thought prompted by this thread...

So birds are basically just tiny descendants of dinosaurs, right? Parrots, corvids, and a few others are capable of mimicry.... were there any dinos that shared that trait?

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Dude from Jurassic Park: "Clever girl..."

Raptor: "CLEVER GIRL! raptor bark sound thing CLEVER GIRL!" eats his face

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

bear in mind that birds are a specific branch of dinosaurs, closest related to stuff like velociraptor.

so it's a pretty good bet that raptors would make bird-like noises (though probably less complex and lower pitched), but doubtful that a stegosaurus would sound anything like a bird.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 21 points 9 months ago

If only! Imagine a gigantic stegosaurus or triceratops tweeting away sweetly like a song bird.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Idk man there are some birds that don't even sound like birds.

Imagine a dinosaur sized shoebill snapping it's beak.

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Annihilation flashbacks...

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[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think i read somewhere that velociraptors were about as smart as a dog. Convergent evolution, because both are group-hunting predators.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So are dolphins (group hunting predators). Pretty sure they rank a lot higher than a dog on the intelligence scale.

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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 45 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Pterodactyls aren’t dinosaurs?

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 58 points 9 months ago

They are basically the sistergroup. When the term dinosaur was coined, the most distantly related dinosaurs were taken as reference and everything and everything "between" them was defined as a dinosaur. Pterodactyls weren't known back than, that's basically the reason they are excluded

[–] tjebutski@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No, they are Ptserosaurs

The Terrible Lizards podcast got a interesting episode about it https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s03e02-ptserosaurs

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.de 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please do not listen to this Podcast!!! You will loose all your friends and family by dumping a metric fuckton of completely out-of-context dino-facts all over your social life.

Trust me, its not gonna be pretty. I listened to a few episodes and little plastic dinosaurs started appearing in our living room. Also my three-year-old started speaking in tongues (says my granny because apparently she doesn't now what a Micropachycephalosaurus is)

BE CAREFUL!

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[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

π•―π–Žπ–Šπ–˜π–Š π•Άπ–”π–’π–’π–Šπ–“π–™π–†π–—π–˜π–Šπ–π–™π–Žπ–”π–“ π–Žπ–˜π–™ π–“π–šπ–“ π•°π–Žπ–Œπ–Šπ–“π–™π–šπ–’ π–‰π–Šπ–— π•­π–šπ–“π–‰π–Šπ–˜π–—π–Šπ–•π–šπ–‡π–‘π–Žπ– π•―π–Šπ–šπ–™π–˜π–ˆπ–π–‘π–†π–“π–‰

[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There are many decades between use of this font and the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. This post is a typographical disaster.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bad German! You can't lebensraum here. Back to Bonn.

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stupid German Dinosaurs

I thought it was made quite clear neither were dinosaurs.

[–] YaksDC@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe the people speaking in the post are daft, elderly people from the rhineland.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 8 points 9 months ago

Rhinos are not dinosaurs either.

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

When I was a kid, I had a dinosaur book that suggested Eryops probably sounded like a Buick. I have no idea if they meant the horn or the engine. One of those odd "facts" that sticks with you, though.

[–] 100@fedia.io 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thats funny because an article about a discovered dino voice box fossil was published just last year

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9932143/

[–] Daerun@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

VERY disappointed this article didn't include an audio file

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

https://youtu.be/Dgl2ihKg09Y

That's bird sounds slowed down, so might be a good approximation. The article does mentions bird-like vocalization. And it sounds terrifying.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention that they wouldn't have addressed them by the names we gave them after they went extinct.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Back then they pronounced the P

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

It still is in German! But we use K instead of C in this case, so true, if they spoke German it would be a Pterodaktylus

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 9 months ago

FlΓΌssiges Deutsch: Meinen die Bier?

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago

For all I know, that's just two metal bands saying hi.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

If you want to know what dinosaurs sound like, listen to a nearest bird. Birds are dinosaurs

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I will always know pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs. Not because i know the difference, but because i have a lil nephew.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO6DGWsW6Pc

I have this song memorized. Not by choice mind you. Watch at your own risk

Was geht, Brontobro

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is besides the fact that we kinda do. There’s a lot of caveats there, though, They’ve been scanning what they think is their vocal organs, generating 3d meshes and printing them out.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Scientists were able to make one sound. Ahh!

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I mean... I 3d printed the model in TPU... it kinda sounded like a squeaky fart.

Granted, I'm not a scientist, and I'm pretty sure the sound is going to be affected by material and stuff. but it sounded like a squeaky fart.

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I've always imagined that they sound like angry chickens or geese.

All geese are angry geese.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 9 months ago

I mean, technically angry chickens (and non-angry ones) and geese are dinosaurs. More than the ones mentioned in the post.

[–] CookieMonsterDebate@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, we have chickens running around where I live, and those mfers can really sound creepy as fuck. That sort of muted muffled gutteral shriek thing they do? That's never mentioned in children's farm animals books...

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

We actually do have some educated guesses based on muscle reconstruction

Apparently T-Rexes sounded like Freddy Fazbear

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