Elephant sized duck. Square-cube + hollow bones of birds means the thing will collapse under its own weight.
but even with hollow bones, they would be larger and be able to support more weight?
True, but still: square-cube law. Size of bones and carrying capacity of them increases a factor X less than the weight of the creature when you increase a creature's size X times. The hollow bones would just mean they'd be much more likely to break.
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I repeat what Archer voices when he is asked if he would rather fight a horse-sized duck or 6 duck-sized horses:
"... But I'd have to answer neither because a horse-sized duck is too terrifying to even contemplate, and duck-sized horses? How can you fight them? They're too adorable!"
That being said, there actually was a duck that, while not elephant-sized, was pretty damn big. I'm pretty sure it's called "Bullockornis" because that's the first thing an Australian would shout when presented with a duck of that size.
First of all, the laws of physics do not apply to hypotheticals, otherwise what's the ******* point. There are really large birds in the real world that do not collapsing under their own weight.
Apparently none of the above posters have ever been around large aggressive birds. I've raised turkeys and geese. These are mean and aggressive animals that will attack you at the drop of a hat. Have you ever heard of an ostrich or a moa? Ever been around a parrot, they can snap off your fingers lickety split. Any animal that can slice you open with it's toenail, or crack open your skull like a nut, is not to be trifled with. I can't imagine that an elephant sized duck would be any more pleasant. However, I could punt little elephants around all day. Or swing them by their little trunks to see how far they fly.
The laws of nature suggest that even in a 'pack' of 100, small, claw-less, herbivorous ungulates would likely flee in the presence of a hostile creature 20x larger than themselves.
I would at least catch one or two for pets. A miniature elephant would make an awesome pet.
An elephant sized duck would get a raction of "geez! that a monster!" And ducks can be aggressive. This means social media will be less likely to crucify you for killing such a duck.
On the other hand, duck sized elephants? Try killing one of those and _you'll_ be labelled a monster.
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1 Elephant size Duck
or
100 duck size elephants?
No weapons, hand to hand.
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but even with hollow bones, they would be larger and be able to support more weight?
I buy HP and Damaged cards!
Only EDH:
Sigarda, Host of Herons: Enchantress' Enchantments
Jenara, Asura of War: ETB Value Town
Purphoros, God of the Forge: Global Punishment
Xenagos, God of Revels: Ramp, Sneak, & Heavy Hitters
Ghave, Guru of Spores: Dies_to_Doom_Blade's stax list
Edric, Spymaster of Trest: Donald's list
True, but still: square-cube law. Size of bones and carrying capacity of them increases a factor X less than the weight of the creature when you increase a creature's size X times. The hollow bones would just mean they'd be much more likely to break.
This is like arguing would an elephant win or a really big flock of ravens.
I repeat what Archer voices when he is asked if he would rather fight a horse-sized duck or 6 duck-sized horses:
"... But I'd have to answer neither because a horse-sized duck is too terrifying to even contemplate, and duck-sized horses? How can you fight them? They're too adorable!"
That being said, there actually was a duck that, while not elephant-sized, was pretty damn big. I'm pretty sure it's called "Bullockornis" because that's the first thing an Australian would shout when presented with a duck of that size.
Maybe they would suffocate, or freeze to death?
Apparently none of the above posters have ever been around large aggressive birds. I've raised turkeys and geese. These are mean and aggressive animals that will attack you at the drop of a hat. Have you ever heard of an ostrich or a moa? Ever been around a parrot, they can snap off your fingers lickety split. Any animal that can slice you open with it's toenail, or crack open your skull like a nut, is not to be trifled with. I can't imagine that an elephant sized duck would be any more pleasant. However, I could punt little elephants around all day. Or swing them by their little trunks to see how far they fly.
I would at least catch one or two for pets. A miniature elephant would make an awesome pet.
An elephant sized duck would get a raction of "geez! that a monster!" And ducks can be aggressive. This means social media will be less likely to crucify you for killing such a duck.
On the other hand, duck sized elephants? Try killing one of those and _you'll_ be labelled a monster.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn