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ITT: Products that trigger /an/
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>>4798425
You aren't suppossed to go on ten hour death marches with the thing
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>>4791488
lol fluffies
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Does Burt Ward's crazy ass dog food really makes you dog immortal?
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>>4789316
Yes Yes

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Post some songs about animals.

I've listened to these two songs about every week for the past year because they remind me of my cat that died in December.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19aMBrD0umo
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SPELLLING - Emperor with an Egg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgQtzjpIBg
Really good penguin song
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https://www.discogs.com/release/1245945-Jim-Nollman-Playing-Music-With-Animals-The-Interspecies-Communication-Of-Jim-Nollman-With-300-Turkey

https://www.discogs.com/release/5422105-Peggy-Seeger-Animal-Folk-Songs-For-Children
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Two different songs both named and about cuckoos.
• Lemon Bucket Orkestra
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ONIZGeIevj8
• Abby the Spoon Lady (and some dude I couldn't give a halfpenny shit about, Les Blackwell)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TjPp2TNqRgk
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Simon & Garfunkel – Who Will Love a Little Sparrow

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Igsh2y_c8XQ
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Malvina Reynolds
• LittleRed Hen
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yQGw5lArivE
• Says the Bee
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KUlTwR1NyVs
• Rabbits Dance
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NNu2admHxik
• The Albatross
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eF7_M6t7EGI
The Whale
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gIlVPdMzqCA
• The Little Mouse
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HdEQnyk1AtA

You might know her as the singer of the Weeds themesong, Little Boxes.

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This is a fish.
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>>4797789
Evidence/source/proof?
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>>4797842
Nta but have you ever heard of the tale about the carp and the waterfall
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>>4798046
I don’t like where this is going…
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>>4797775
Yum.

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Imagine being able to eat the floor. How can carnivores ever compete?
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>>4795423
Imagine being able to eat your neighbor.
How can herbivores even compete?
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>>4796392
Me too man. Epic yak
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>>4795423
by eating them?
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>>4795423
>have to spend 6 hours a day eating just to survive
>have to spend another 8 hours a day eating the food a second time because its so hard to digest
yeah sounds wonderful as opposed to
>let the Herbies do the hard part and then just eat the Herbies
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>>4796386
i fucking kneel snakechad

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I'd personally put them pretty low.
I think out of hand we can dismiss the idea that there was ever a land animal that weighed over 200 tons, but the ocean holds many secrets.
Whether any of the incomplete ichthyosaurs we know from only sections of jawbones were as big as the blue whale is, they do prove that VERY large bony animals can fairly secret to our fossil hunters.
And that's only within the areas of Earth that we can search for fossils. All fossils hidden under the ocean bed or the ice caps of Antarctica (probably a majority of fossils on Earth) are complete secrets to modern man.
Not to mention animals who would not usually fossilized. If there existed a 500 ton Precambrian ocean worm, chances are we'd never get a fossil of it, at least not one big enough to prove the total size of the beast
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>>4798713
t. Inferior human roastoid
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>>4796078
theres no way something like that existed
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>>4797738
DAMN that boy thicc
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there had to be some giga sea monster in the cretaceous period that mustve mogged the blue whale
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>>4799299
Nope.

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Does anyone else huff their cat? Why do they smell good?
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>>4791949
Brain damage ever since the day he was born
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>>4795321
>shitty series is relevant again because of porn bait
My only wish in this life is to kill as many coomers as I can.
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Dogs smell amazing. Like a meadow in the middle of a cedar grove.
Cats smell neutral at best. Like dirt.
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>>4797387
What? If anything it’s more relevant than ever. And it’s still fun.
>>4797394
This is gigacope
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>>4793003
human beings are so vile

>Casually is a living fossil
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>>4799432
If Odonata are such successful predators, then how come no other insects have evolved a similar body plan? Have they just outcompeted everything that otherwise would have? The closest thing to an exception I can think of are antlions.
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>>4799438
A bunch of robber flies are pretty similar
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>>4799438
>have evolved a similar body plan?
Because that isn't how evolution works
The median phases are likely less fit in a present environment, thus aren't selected for

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>>4798877
I think you’d be hard pressed to argue that
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>>4798271
>Get two monkeys to cling to each other
>Drop in water tank
>Each time one tries to let go to swim to the surface the other panics and clings harder, dragging both of them down
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Primates are pretty stupid, they do not ask questions....
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>>4799197
yup
https://youtu.be/Q8LSkWzo2jE

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>it's an animal that moves around with no legs somehow
>yeah it just ummm.... slithers... yes we assure you that makes perfect sense
>and it looks like this inside, don't question how it works this is 100% real
do you really believe this shit?
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>>4799371
Yah sorry, thought I already reduced that one, but nah
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>>4799391
Images are from 'Dictionary of Symbols' by J. E. Cirlot

Lovely Beasts Edition

cont. from >>4787478


Gear

Ray Allen Manufacturing: Tactical Dog Gear | Police and Military K9 (https://www.rayallen.com)

Kurgo: High Quality Outdoor Adventure Dog Gear Products (https://www.kurgo.com)

AVOID: Weight Pull Harness, X-Back Harnesses, and Sledding Harnesses. Pulling IS Dangerous.

ALWAYS: Size Correctly


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>>4799125
Some dogs are highly intelligent and others are not

The dumber they are, the better at obedience they are without requiring neurosis (“drive”) so most of the western world is going to purposefully smash and slam their brains given enough time
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>>4799129
lol implying the rest of the planet wants to deal with the ‘disobedient’ dogs either
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>>4799158
Command obedience is irrelevant if you simply follow the law and keep your dog leashed. Come, leave it, drop it, etc don't need to be 100% because your dog should be controlled via a leash at all times. You do not have to have them under complete verbal control - JUST USE A FUCKING LEASH

Your dog being critically retarded if not painstakingly trained, however, does guarantee they might do something extremely stupid like bite people for touching their face or bark at nothing. I can pet the faces of strange akita inu and they do not bark at nothing, but if they are at their home they protect it. They are disobedient, but those are intelligent dogs especially for a "working breed". I can not even touch a strange rottweiler. They are not intelligent dogs. They do not think before acting. They only follow their instincts.

I don't want to be around an intelligent but driven dog like a german shepherd any more than I want to be around a rottweiler because high IQ doesn't temper their mental illness. They're safer because they're not retarded, but they do retarded and sometimes dangerous shit anyways because they are mentally ill.

The double shit dog is a dog that is both driven and stupid, like a pitbull.

t. catfag from a dog ridden family
I do not hate dogs, but I hate what dog people are doing to them so they can fulfill their beastmaster fantasies and order around a dog that's not leashed.
>muh working purpose!
Oh you're a cop? You work with the disabled? You farm sheep? Suuuuure.

Dogs should all be exterminated and replaced with some kind of medium sized shiba/akita pet type dog unless they are used by actual working professionals. A smart dog that isnt a cuck and that I can trust not to be retarded or autistic. You know, like cats - they are all the same semi-natural breed that is reasonably intelligent and not mentally ill except for rare specialty animals.

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>>4799380
Agreed. “Dog owner culture” has shaped dogs into unpredictably violent and neurotic shitmutts. Deformed too because ugly means more manly.

All the dog show “breed bettering” isnt helping either because inbreds develop unpredictable issues that are beyond the tiny brains of breeders
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>>4799380
>japanese culture respects nature
>western and chinese culture is that only humans even have minds let alone souls and a giant magical jew made the entire earth their property
>japan has the only dogs that even begin to resemble real animals in appearance and behavior
>china and the west so bad they're smashing and slamming the cats

Are ants the closest to surpassing Humanity?
I know it will never happen but they're our biggest competitors right?
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>>4799108
nothing can or will surpass us if your criteria is technological development if we consider that to be energy utilization. there are not enough easily accessible deposits of minerals, particularly petrochemicals to fuel a second industrial revolution.
if you're talking biomass ants are only at ~20% of human biomass, i think they're best in class among terrestrial invertebrates but still have nothing on livestock, cattle alone are at ~200% human biomass. Antarctic krill are the only complex animal species with greater biomass than humans at this point and it's pretty close.
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>>4799108
>but they're our biggest competitors right?
in terms of sheer numbers, yeah
eusociality is both a big advantage and disadvantage because it hard handicaps the kind of development it took humans to achieve our current position
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They're working on a quite different level.
They perhaps will survive human extinction, but they will do little productive work.
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They are mindless, soil-shoving losers. Put on this Earth to serve us.
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If your criteria for advancement is cooperation and creating things together, then our cells are much more impressive, since they can specialize a lot more and work together much more in sync.
What are even your criteria

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Strangely, there hasn’t been one of these yet (that I know of). So let’s fix that and get a thread going for all things pertaining to Mustelids - some of the hardiest, most enduring mammals.
This includes: Ferrets, Stoats, Wolverines, Badgers, Otters, Minks, Weasels, Martens, Grisons, Skunks, etc.
Ownership and advice for owning is also naturally welcome.
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>>4797212
Protip: thump your feet on the ground so they think you're another skunk, they're extremely nearsighted.
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>>4796636
otter eat da blueberry
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>>4797546
Nice try
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cowe
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>>4799207
These things aren’t in our group… right?

Would this guy lurk here?

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So these are just kinda...? Water doggos?
And they hunted 90% of the billion year standing lineages of nautilus to death in a handful million years?
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>>4798164
They'd need a huge body of water to be happy
Imagine all the owners neglecting them by just giving them a kiddie pool
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>>4798828
>Imagine all the owners neglecting them by just giving them a kiddie pool
That would add a whole new dimension to those animal rescue shows. They break into some meth head's backyard and there is just this depressed seal with clown make up lying in a dirty kiddie pool.
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>>4798766
Bullshit. If you've ever spent time observing seals you'll notice their behavioural patterns are surprisingly canine. So much so that when dogs and seals encounter each other there's a familial interaction pattern.
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>>4798972
They're all in the caniformia suborder.
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It's just mammals dominating nature.

Why do people keep saying this animal is trash? The Cheetah is literally the fastest animal on the planet, that makes it far better and superior than a Lion in my opinion.
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>>4796249
Sir this is a Wendy's
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cheeto
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>>4796249
Brahma will forgive you for this misunderstanding of Krishna’s message and bless you with a favorable reincarnation as a cheetah’s emotional support dog
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>>4798412
That's all I've ever wanted.
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