Nature Facts

[Subdeacon Joe]

[Alpo]

What we down here in the south would call "bowing up".

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Looks like a kid's stuffed toy.  Not terribly fierce or dangerous looking.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

5 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Looks like a kid's stuffed toy.  Not terribly fierce or dangerous looking.

What do you expect for an animal that eats shoots and leaves?

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

What do you expect for an animal that eats shoots and leaves?

I have a brother in law who's like that.  He eats everything he can find.,shoots farts all through the house, and leaves....but never soon enough.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

15 hours ago, Alpo said:

What we down here in the south would call "bowing up".

“Blowing up”?

[Ozark Huckleberry]

8 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

“Blowing up”?

Bowing up (‘bow’ pronounced as in ‘bow and arrows’)

 

Southern slang for gettin’ all puffed up fer a fight. 
 

ETA:  ‘Don’t go gittin’ bowed up at yer daddy, he’ll jerk a knot in yer tail!’

[Alpo]

When people are getting ready for a fight - especially if they're a little bit scared - they will move their arms out from their sides a little bit. Raise their shoulders. These two minor movements make them appear to be bulkier. Lean forward a little bit so that they're slightly off their heels and on their toes. This makes them appear taller. The three of these together have the result of making you appear bigger, and therefore quite possibly more dangerous. Hopefully your aggressor decides that getting in a fight with you would be a bad idea.

 

Someone seeing this happen would be apt to make the comment, "That boy done got all bowed up".

 

Sometimes the aggressor will not be scared off, and he is apt to say, "Don't you bow up at me!"

 

Bowing up is not an intentional movement. Quite often you don't realize you have done it, until the danger has passed and you feel yourself relaxing.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Similarly when a cat turns sideways, arches its back, akes its fur stand up and hisses. It is trying to look bigger.

 

 

 

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

3 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

What do you expect for an animal that eats shoots and leaves?

Herbivore doesn't mean harmless.

 

Cape Buffalo eats grass, leaves and such- but M'Bogo is arguably one of the most dangerous animals on a continent full of things that are trying to bite, sting, stomp or otherwise kill or maim you.  They are also notorious for catching wind of a hunting party and hunting them back.  Imagine a pissed off bull bigger than a Volkswagon with the skills to stalk you back.

[Tall Tale Todd]

8 minutes ago, Smuteye John SASS#24774 said:

Herbivore doesn't mean harmless.

 

Cape Buffalo eats grass, leaves and such- but M'Bogo is arguably one of the most dangerous animals on a continent full of things that are trying to bite, sting, stomp or otherwise kill or maim you.  They are also notorious for catching wind of a hunting party and hunting them back.  Imagine a pissed off bull bigger than a Volkswagon with the skills to stalk you back.

Hippopotamus is the most dangerous animal on that continent. 

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

11 hours ago, Tall Tale Todd said:

Hippopotamus is the most dangerous animal on that continent. 

And it's a herbivore, too.

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

15 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

What do you expect for an animal that eats shoots and leaves?

 

They are a lot tougher than that-- it eats, shoots, and leaves!

[Widder, SASS #59054]

To me, it appears its being robbed at gun point.

 

..........Widder