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minus-squarecfi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 months agoDude wouldn’t even know what an elephant was, most likely
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months agoThat would make it even more terrifying.
minus-squareocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoThat’s how they got the term! What is that creatures? That thing is hella fat!
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago‘Luca Bos’, they called them, when they first encountered them ~50 years before Hannibal crossed the Alps. ‘Lucanian Cows’ - because they first saw them in the region of Lucania, and had no other frame of reference for such beasts.
Dude wouldn’t even know what an elephant was, most likely
That would make it even more terrifying.
That’s how they got the term!
‘Luca Bos’, they called them, when they first encountered them ~50 years before Hannibal crossed the Alps. ‘Lucanian Cows’ - because they first saw them in the region of Lucania, and had no other frame of reference for such beasts.