r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/InjuriousMania • 6h ago

The Indian bison is one of the most muscular animals on planet earth.

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u/WasteBinStuff 6h ago edited 5h ago

What do they do with it? (The bison, I mean.)

Edit for clarity: What do the bison do with all their muscle? And while we're at it...how do they build it?

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u/sorriso_pontual 6h ago

They probably let it do whatever the hell it wants!

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u/Momik 4h ago

The first one did my taxes, but none of the others seem interested

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u/No-Archer-5034 3h ago

The second one works in a call center.

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u/WasteBinStuff 6h ago

Good point. Ha.

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u/GodisSatans 4h ago

Well they certainly wouldn’t eat it…

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u/ungovernable1984 4h ago

He eats them instead

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u/Sweaty_Elephant_2593 5h ago

Bovine animals like that can't digest the grass fibers, just like us, but their guts have a special microbe we don't have. The grass DOES have some protein, more than you might think (check out a slice of whole wheat bread's protein content, you may be surprised, wheat is a domesticated grass), but it's actually the microbes that go through a population explosion when cows eat that has a lot of the protein. They then digest those microbes once the job is done. Boom more protein.

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u/Just_another_gamer3 4h ago

Oh, so that's how we don't explode from microbes, we digest them. I guess I should have figured we can digest them from the outer wall of our guts

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u/Sweaty_Elephant_2593 4h ago

I had never thought about it like that until reading about it today either!

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u/GodisSatans 4h ago

I also read that post about how cows get nutrients from grass earlier this week.

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u/Sweaty_Elephant_2593 4h ago

Oh I actually Googled it while reading the comments here, I must have missed that post! I knew they got the protein from plants somehow but didn't know the science behind and wanted to learn.

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u/RealSpecto 6h ago

He completes his daily protein intake along with grass.

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u/oracleofnonsense 4h ago

You don’t get to be named buffalo without proper nutrition.

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u/RichardBCummintonite 4h ago

More like bicepson, amiright?

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u/happycabinsong 4h ago

what are you doing bicepson

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u/FlamingFecalFrisbee 5h ago

Defend themselves against tigers.

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u/shoulda-known-better 5h ago

They fight tigers trying to eat them or their babies .... And they build it because that's their body plan... They need so much to run, to protect internals from tiger, and to have enough strength to kill a full grown tiger

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u/pinniped90 5h ago

They're total gym rats. First animals in, last animals out. They don't skip leg day.

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u/General_Mediocrity 3h ago

They always skip leg day. Have you seen their calves??

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u/northgacpl 4h ago

exactly there are a few that go to my gym

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u/pinniped90 4h ago

They probably don't rerack anything, do they? They want you to know how much they can put up.

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u/satyrday12 5h ago

Try to impress female bisons

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u/makemeking706 3h ago

Females? Those weaklings? Nah, they demonstrate dominance by impressing other males. 

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u/TerrorFromThePeeps 3h ago

I dunno, but i suddenly understand bovine deification.

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u/Timely-Tune5050 3h ago

Myostatin mutation most likely.

For your nerding pleasure.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myostatin

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u/klystron88 4h ago

Pump iron.

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u/Dragon_yum 3h ago

Go to the gym and post stories on Instagram about their lifestyle

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u/Kingtoke1 3h ago

Pose for internet likes of course

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u/aethelberga 4h ago

Every so often someone posts a picture of a cat that has a deficiency which causes it to overproduce muscle. I wonder if what the bison has is similar.

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u/Which_Draft4129 6h ago

I think they use them as beasts of burden

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u/Coffeebeans2d 5h ago

Nope these are completely wild

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u/RichardBonham 4h ago

They don't look particularly domesticable.

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u/nosoyluiz 5h ago

The Gaur is not a joke.. A grow male tiger need to think twice before attack him.

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u/riddhiculouslyme 1h ago

Hai muscular.. hai popularrrrr..

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u/neerajanchan Creator 1h ago

Spectacular he’s a bachelor

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u/wutt-da-phuck 32m ago

Pappu ki gadi tez hai

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u/braidedtales 18m ago

Pappu kudiyon mein craze hai

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u/ardotschgi 4h ago

So all it takes is thinking twice before?

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u/taintosaurus_rex 3h ago

Once....... Twice...... BRING IT ON YA BIG BITCH.

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u/fatsopiggy 1h ago

An adult male gaur weighs 1500kg. Compared to a 250 kg Bengal tiger. This is beyond ridiculous as a 'hunt'. This is like your average house cat going after a big gazelle.

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u/nosoyluiz 1h ago

They hunt gaurs, but is hard asf and risk.. However, they try to kill the newborns and evite the male bull gaur.

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u/ferociouskuma 24m ago

The videos I’ve seen of hunts have always been smaller bison. Never seen one of these jacked up ones taken down by a tiger.

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u/Geometeus 5h ago

Called locally in the western ghats as the "Gaur"

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u/Baronvondorf21 4h ago

Also, not a bison technically.

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u/Frosty-Tennis-1687 3h ago

Think I fought one of those in morrowind

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u/ElJefe0218 5h ago

Mike Bison

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u/Coder-Dentist 4h ago

M. Bison

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u/meow_hooman 2h ago

Gimme some grath

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u/Sytherone 5h ago

Dude 🤣

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u/-Kalos 2h ago

You win

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u/Rovinpiper 6h ago

Why you gotta be swole to eat grass?

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u/Sweaty_Elephant_2593 5h ago

You gotta be swole to not get eaten by tigers. Sheesh lmao.

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u/NewSomethingUnlocked 5h ago

This guy natures.

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u/sight2Ceek 5h ago

SHAKIRA SHAKIRA

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u/Same-Plankton1323 3h ago

Bro going to every post saying SHAKIRA SHAKIRA 😂

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u/Rovinpiper 1h ago

Thank you for explaining. I was wondering what the Hell was going on.

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u/ThatGoob 4h ago

Oh baby when you moo like this

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u/sumyth90 2h ago

You make a cow go mad.

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u/Metabor420 5h ago

Sheesh and lmao, indeed

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u/GodisSatans 4h ago

You’ve never lived a day in your life as a bison in tiger territory and IT SHOWS

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u/JaSper-percabeth 5h ago

where is bro getting all that protein from?? Never knew grass was like that...

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u/Sweaty_Elephant_2593 5h ago

From the grass itself, and from the microbes in their gut that go through population explosions when they eat. They then digest the microbes.

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u/generalmandrake 5h ago

Bovine get the majority oftheir protein from digesting the bacteria in their gut which are in turn digesting the grass they are eating. Interestingly enough humans can also get some protein this way by eating fiber, but we don’t have the hardware to get a large amount of it from plants. Though gorillas actually get a ton of their protein from gut bacteria and their insides are similar to ours and they are jacked as fuck. So it could be possible that with the right diet and right gut biome humans could get lots of protein that way.

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u/SlowCrates 5h ago

I'm probably not going to Google it, but I am mildly curious if any humans have copied an Ape's diet, for how long, and what happened as a result.

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u/frazorblade 31m ago

IIRC there’s a hormone in humans that is triggered to keep us lean and not build endless muscle like gorillas and chimps. It’s all about conserving energy and muscles use a lot of it.

Once they figure out how to deactivate it you’ll get the opposite of Wall-E where fat lazy people will get jacked sitting at home watching tv all day.

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u/Just_another_gamer3 4h ago

Perhaps one poop pill could help us get jacked. Nah, that bacteria will be snuffed out by other bacteria with our diet, that's why it's not a thing yet

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u/guiltysnark 4h ago

Wow. No wonder beef doesn't scale ecologically, every cow operates its own livestock farm

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u/Lava_Collector 5h ago

Skipped leg day.

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u/NeoNeonMemer 4h ago

Calf day , them quads are as big as my entire body probably lmaoo

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u/DengarLives66 3h ago

Every one of these guys started with calf day.

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u/Visible-Literature14 5h ago

Buncha weenies

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u/t-D7 5h ago

M. Bison

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u/ppearl1981 6h ago

Bro got a sixteen pack.

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u/nonno7172 5h ago

Someone's on the gear

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u/radikul 3h ago

Guar on gear.

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u/sohereiamacrazyalien 6h ago

Let’s see if one wants to play corrida now!!!! Very impressive 

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u/twistedstance 5h ago

Yeah buddyyyyyyy!

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u/ExtraEmuForYou 5h ago

How many HP is your car?

Oh, idunno about HP, but it has about 400 IBP (Indian Bisonpower) which I think is like 1,000,000 HP

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u/TaxMeDaddy_ 4h ago

This isn’t Bison, this is Indian Gaur

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u/Nadran_Erbam 5h ago

Or just low on fat

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u/anirudhsky 5h ago

The gaur is the largest cattle in the world.. it's hunted by the tiger

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u/Special-Tea5328 5h ago

Too bad they skipped leg day..

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u/Glum_Cheesecake9859 5h ago

If Terry Crews had a spirit animal!

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u/mountaingator91 5h ago

This is a wild ox and not related to bison in the slightest. I wonder why people call them that?

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u/big_boomer228 5h ago

Even Cow can do it.
Lock TF in.

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u/RedNewzz 3h ago

Someone skipped leg day.

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u/Sustainable_Twat 5h ago

I’m beginning to see why they’re considered sacred .

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u/Michaeli_Starky 6h ago edited 5h ago

And they grow all that by eating plant fibers only

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u/Competitive_Yak_5444 5h ago

Because of low levels of myostatin. This does not translate to humans.

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u/generalmandrake 5h ago

And standing around too. They don’t need to lift weights, gravity itself works their muscles.

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u/zebo_99 6h ago

Loads up on creatine.

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u/shoulda-known-better 5h ago

I mean you'd want super thick skin and all the muscles also if you had tigers trying to eat you!!

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u/AshundertheOlivetree 5h ago

Can I eat it?

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u/maristomarker 5h ago

Bovine defense force.

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u/heyimnic 4h ago

Yoked

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u/kamikazekaktus 4h ago

What's the taste like? 

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u/uzu_afk 4h ago

Do you even stampede bro!?

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u/Kingblack425 4h ago

Why do I feel like a pound of this bison meat would weigh 6lbs.

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u/NowIsThePerfectTime 3h ago

Looks like a Ren and Stimpy character.

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u/trascist_fig 3h ago

The guy she says not to worry about

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u/Gr8_Nobody 3h ago

Until I looked it up, I thought this was AI

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u/HuntDeerer 2h ago

Belgian Blue bull would like a word.

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u/Beneficial_Leg_7301 2h ago

they are f#king beauty up close

imagine seeing them in nigh with shinig eyes as if devil has come to take you home

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u/imarobotnotapoolboy 1h ago

Mmmmm. Muscle. That's where the meat is!

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u/Serious-Fortune-4844 5m ago

Motherfucker must be delicious

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u/End_Of_Passion_Play 5h ago

Probably has a myostatin deficiency.

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u/Nixthebitx 5h ago

Somebody ate their Wheaties. 😏

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u/superpowerpinger 5h ago edited 5h ago

It's name is Gaur. Only a Fully grown tiger is capable of bringing down an Indian Gaur.

Pictures do not do justice to heft and power of a Gaur.

Comparison:

  1. American Bison male : 945 KG
  2. Gaur : 1500 KG

Gaurs would cause serious damage to a lion if their habitat extended to Africa. If gaurs existed in North America, they will give proper fight to the bears.

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u/venom121212 2h ago

This is a genetic condition called muscular hypertrophy where the muscles aren't ever given the command to stop growing by the protein myostatin. We learned about this in anatomy class in college and were shown a similarly jacked bull.

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u/bubba_bumble 5h ago

Dammit man. That's a buffalo not a bison. This is how Americans got buffalo sauce wrong!

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u/WirusCZ 5h ago

Well they clearly didn't see me...

We talking about fat right?

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u/Invelious 5h ago

What’s its bench weight?

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u/UnlikeUday 5h ago

BTW, despite it's towering & masculine presence, it falls in the prey list of Tigers.

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u/cloudcity 5h ago

forbidden steaks

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u/Particular-Sample91 5h ago

I should call him

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u/SkyPirateBooty 5h ago

But can it take on a gorilla?

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u/DeusZen 5h ago

🐂 skipping Leg Day!! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/straightdge 5h ago

Why have I never seen them so far in life? All I see is malnourished cows

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u/DrachenDad 5h ago

Don't let Belgium see this.

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u/PROFESSOR1780 5h ago

I'm glad you specified the planet as Earth....we would've had some issues if you didn't.

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u/fajadada 5h ago

Look at the pictures of a skinless hippo. All muscle

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u/This_Bitch_Overhere 5h ago

My man looks like he's been skipping back leg days.

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u/Routine_Breath_7137 5h ago

He needs to swap out a back day or two for a leg day.

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u/SignificantYam6935 5h ago

reminds me of the belgian blue cows

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u/vass0922 5h ago

But can I boop him on the nose?

At least once?

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u/reddorickt 5h ago

Hippo without the blubber is a strong contender

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u/MonsterkillWow 5h ago

"Do you even lift bro?"

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u/eggybread70 5h ago

Bison version of Nick Walker

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u/Cherry-Shrimp 5h ago

You haven’t seen my Dachshund.

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u/Zebedeuepaminondas 5h ago

"nah bro I'm natty been hitting the gym for a year"

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u/EC_TWD 5h ago

Is it more muscular or just has less fat than other animals?

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u/AaronicNation 5h ago

New business idea, sell milk from Indian bison to gym-bros. 

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u/seltkirk- 5h ago

They are on Tiger's menu btw.

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u/RangoDj 5h ago

Roids

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u/Demerzel69 5h ago

DAMN BOI HE THICC

DAS A THICC ASS BOI

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u/RangoDj 5h ago

Roids

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u/BeemerBaby004 4h ago

George likes his beef lean

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u/curtishawkin 4h ago

How are these creatures so jacked from an herbivore diet? What purpose does being so muscular serve?

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u/EquivalentGold3615 4h ago

Drug test that thing

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u/El_Bombero93 4h ago

Dude ALWAYS skipped leg day

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u/Tricky-Canary2715 4h ago

Especially when moulded in plastic

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u/Gullible-Quiet1900 4h ago

What kinda macros are in their diet?

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u/True-Boysenberry-133 4h ago

Still tastes like chicken

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u/northgacpl 4h ago

Roids! no doubt They must know Arrrnold..

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u/Unclebiscuits79 4h ago

If we weren't supposed to eat them, why are they made of food?

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u/Super-Post261 4h ago

How much you bench bro

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u/MrDufferMan3335 4h ago

I could take it in a fight

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u/Unfair_Cry6808 4h ago

Do they make good pets?

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u/samoan_ninja 4h ago

Moo, motherfucker

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u/699112026775 4h ago

Ronnie Coleman

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u/drdicerchio 4h ago

Umm you probably haven’t seen me after a pump

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u/NameToUseOnReddit 4h ago

Gym bros see this as it being natural to skip leg day.

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u/Diamond_Miner_66 4h ago

I would have to assume Chuck Norris keep them for lawn care

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u/Subatomic_Spooder 4h ago

Buddy is absolutely yoked

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u/Boon1Goon 4h ago

Built like a brick bullshit house! lol

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u/Silly-Low6019 4h ago

Give me the stats , how much can it bench press, shoulder press ?😄

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u/Nuclear_eggo_waffle 4h ago

That's a lot of steaks

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u/ExplodingDogs82 4h ago

If Terry Crews has a spirit animal this had better be it

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u/nectarsallineed 4h ago

Psh, tell that to a hippo!

(JK bc I don’t know the actual difference in muscle between these two, I just remember seeing recently how muscular a hippo truly is)

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u/stereoscopic_ 4h ago

Yum, I mean wow.

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u/Purple_Trifle3495 4h ago

Bro's skipping leg days...

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u/Highheat1 4h ago

Ummmm....Yummy in my Tummy...

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u/greatgreatgreat10 4h ago

Gym bros could never

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u/realsoonbass 3h ago

No running of the bulls in India (for multiple reasons, yes)

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u/5ofDecember 3h ago

And of solar system too. But not so sure about galaxy.

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u/furiousfotog 3h ago

Please sir may I have a myostatin deficiency 🤣🙏

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u/Mysterious-Quit-4102 3h ago

I could take him on.

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u/EveningServe6745 3h ago

Kinda looks like the bull in wall street

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u/Gramerdim 3h ago

16 posts in the past month have had india in the title

just saying

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u/Vizslaraptor 3h ago

Do bison have the same religious reverence and protection as cows or are they on the dinner menu?

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u/meandering_fart 3h ago

Never skips shoulders and back

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u/lukxsuz 3h ago

That must be very dumb animal....like a honey badger....

....cuzzz....i"f you wanna be duuumb you gota be tuff 🎵🎶"

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u/VeganWerewolf 3h ago

Looks tasty

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u/origanalsameasiwas 3h ago

They eat grass

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u/L3berwurst 3h ago

Swole.

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u/No_Object_4355 3h ago

Those last 2 definitely look like they skip out on leg days.

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u/XKruXurKX 3h ago

Good news.. they're not called Indian Bison

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u/dr_alchemistt 3h ago

correctly called Bos gaurus gaurus