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I too vomit while standing up at my full height.
Ye, they would probably bow down to vomit. Would be interesting to see how giraffes do it.
Puking giraffes, sounds like a band name
I found a youtube video explaining that giraffes have four stomachs. They vomit from the forth to the second or first, and very rarely does it come up. https://youtu.be/7EXnc8SXWV8?t=70
Owls (owl pellets) or even snakes and lizards would probs be more accurate imo
That's an impressive superpower.
Looking harmless and then suddenly violently puke like a fire hose stream on some poor bankrobbers or something.
I bet that it wouldn't need to be some strong acid to be an effective repellent.
I call it "stand and deliver"
Are we sure they could vomit?
not sure, but 2 seconds is thinking about living animals tells us that that would probably bend over first.
And 2 more seconds and you start wondering how many pints it would take.
Maybe not projectile vomit but they absolutely could reverse peristalsis just like any vertebrate. Giraffes chew their cud while upright after all. Peristalsis is agnostic to how high it's pumping, since there is no functional loss in strength.
Edit: https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1234348-watch-cud-ball-travel-down-giraffe's-neck
they absolutely could reverse peristalsis just like any vertebrate.
AFAIK Horses cannot vomit, and I also was told that mice and rats cannot vomit.
What I'm describing isn't actual vomiting either, but more like regurgitating. Rodents can do that, though horses can't (because they can't even belch, they've got a one way valve).
Ruminants like sheep and giraffes also don't externally vomit but they do internally vomit which makes stuff change chambers in their stomach.
Somehow the last part seems worse than vomiting. I know it isn't, but eeww.
Internal vomitting is when it comes out of your nose?
A question I never thought I’d want to have the answer to.
Do birds vomit?
They feed their young through regurgitation so they do have the ability! Now can it be projected at a distance? Hopefully someone can inform us lol.
Is friction really negligible here?
It's probably pretty important. This paper on the terminal velocity of water droplets shows an upper limit of around 10m/s. And terminal velocity is reached in under 6m.
Thank you for looking it up.
Even at 10m/s, thats 41kN of force.
But they were herbivores..? The image shows bones in there
Those are the bones of its victims. Raptors dread the vom bomb
The idea is that the impact would have killed a little dromaeosaur
Maybe, but it's weird they drew it as nothing left but bones though
Well someone cropped the part of this image where this maths experiment was inspired by trying to figure out how a small dinosaur died in a stranger crater.
That image is an outline of the fossil millions of years later, not a drawing of puke containing bones or a dinosaur getting instantly defleshed
Ahh that makes sense
Clearly they threw the bones up since they're not meant to eat them
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